Debris Jams Flood Gate
Some residents of a part of Dovedale feared serious local flooding yesterday when a large quantity of floodwater burst up…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Three Floods In Month
GLENREAGH, Friday.--The Orara River at Glenreagh was in flood for the third time since June 23…
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Floodwaters in Clarence River tributaries fell very slowly yesterday. The danger of serious flooding diminished considerably, although river flat were…
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Funds totalling £15,140104 were received up to yesterday by the joint Grafton City Cogmanhurst Shire Flood…
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CASINO.--There is such a thing as flood insurance. Although it is not generally known, buildings…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--Sydney was lashed by a freak storm to-day which disrupted traffic and communications and caused damage estimated at more than £100,000…
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Further inundation of river flats occurred on Saturday after heavy overnight rain renewed the flood threat on the Clarence. Slight rises in the already flooded Upper…
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Low-lying parts of the suburb of Dovedale were flooded to a depth of between two and three feet on Friday…
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Many of the flood area shires and municipalities were hopelessly ill-equipped to deal with flood work, Army…
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GLENREAGH.--On Friday £300 was received from the Dorrigo Shire Council Flood Relief Committee for…
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KEMPSEY, Sun.--The Macleay missed a flood equal at least to the ones of August last year and June by the nearest possible margin. Rain on the watershed stopped at the right time…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--Faced with the most disastrous flood since 1910 one-third of Moree (population 6500) was under water to-night with the peak of the…
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The Secretary of the Dorrigo Shire Flood Relief Committee (Mr. H. Lovett) states the Committee would, if no other help…
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There's no doubt about the grit and the splendid spirit of the outback Australian! Cut off for weeks from the outside world through loss of bridges, washed away roads and the devastation of floods, and with no prospect…
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The damage caused by the June floods to the Coffs Harbour and Coramba water supplies was fully explained in a report presented to the monthly meeting of the Dorrigo Shire Council by the Turncock, Mr. H. O'Doherty…
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BRAUNSTONE.--The cream-carrier and mailman for Braunstone had a difficult time getting provisions and mail through to…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--Backwaters of the flooded Hunter River at Maitland are sweeping into more than a dozen homes which had just been made habitable after…
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Ald. C. T. Schwinghammer revealed, at last night's meeting of South Grafton Council, that the Flood Relief…
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Although the Weather Bureau yesterday forecast Hoods for the Clarence, Nymboida and Bellinger Rivers, the only ram recorded over the river watersheds yesterday was from light showers…
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Several days will elapse before the Little River, at Dalmorton, falls sufficiently to permit the rescue of Mr. and Mrs. W. Adams, to whom food and blankets were dropped by aeroplane on Sunday…
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