Walgett Wins Battle Of Floods
SYDNEY, Wed.--Walgett has won the battle of the floods. Water to-day stopped rising when it was only six inches from the top of levees around the town…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Grafton Floods, 1890 And 1950
These two pictures graphically illustrate flood levels in Prince street, Grafton, during the two biggest floods in the while man's history of the Clarence. The top picture shows water outside Hockey's boot factory…
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MACLEAN, Tuesday.--At a meeting of the Clarence Sugar Executive a letter was received from Mr. G. S. Jolly, advising that the request submitted by deputation for relief for canegrowers who had suffered loss in the recent flood, had…
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Flood damage and loss of revenue through the effects of flooding might cost the Clarence River County Council as…
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Staff and drivers of the MidCoast Co-operative Meat Society at Macksville did a wonderful job to relieve…
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MACLEAN.--The estimated cost of flood damage repairs was between £750 and £1000, it was stated at the monthly meeting of the Maclean Municipal Council, in a minute submitted by the…
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COFF'S HARBOUR, Thurs. -- At a special meeting last night, Dorrigo Shire Flood Relief Committee finalised…
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Secondary education plans among some Clarence River families have been seriously affected by the disruption…
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CORAKI. -- Woodburn Shire Council will be represented at next week's conference in Lismore, convened by the City…
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TOKIO, Friday (AAP). -- United States and South Korean troops retreated from the blazing port of Pohang to-day under storming Communist fire…
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The first A.B.C. "Nation's Forum of the Air" to be held on the Clarence will be broadcast from the High School,…
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SIDNEY, Sun.--The 600 residents of Brewarrina in the North-West are to-night fighting a desperate battle…
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Bellingen Shire Engineer (Mr. H. I. S. Marks) estimated at a shire meeting that restoration of roads and bridges…
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Bellingen Shire Engineer, Mr. H.I.S. Marks, estimates that it will cost something like £150,000 to repair the damage…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--A cheque for £865 was to-day handed to the Lord Mayor (Ald. E. C. O'Dea), for the Flood Victims'…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Floods will cause millions of pounds damage in the Brewairina, Walgett and Bourke districts, said the Minister for Lands (Mr. Renshaw) to-day…
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COFF'S HABROUR.--At the monthly meeting of the Coff's Harbour Urban Area Committee, members expressed the opinion thai a maintenance man could have prevented considerable damage to roads…
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ARMIDALE.--Dumaresq Shire Council will apply through the Public Works Department at Cuff's Harbour for a grant of…
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ROME, Tuesday (A.A.P.). -- Lightning killed seven people when it struck a fireworks factory in a thunderstorm at…
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Details of flood damage, amounting to £4483, were submitted to Monday night's meeting of South Grafton…
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