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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
715 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 29 of 36
The proper harnessing of the Clarence will put an end to scenes of desolation such as this. The photograph was taken from the viaduct at the foot of Ryan street, South Grafton, during the June flood. The roof of a shed is on its way down the Clarence. The school is on the hill on the right…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LISMORE, Friday.--The formation of a Richmond Valley Flood Mitigation) County Council was overwhelmingly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Sun.--Whipped by a 30 m.p.h. westerly wind waves up to two feet high are menacing the earth levees around the flood-besieged town of Bourke in the far west…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Support for the harnessing of the Clarence waters was given yesterday, at the annual meeting of the Church of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In a letter to the Shire Council at last meeting Korora Branch of the Agricultural Bureau requested that the Council employ the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Mon.--'Phone communication, with Bourke is impossible to-night because wind-whipped floodwaters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MACLEAN. -- Harwood Shire Council has received advice from the Flood Releif Committee following representations that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tues.--Swirling floodwaters, in parts five feet deep, continue to batter levees protecting Bourke from inundation. RESIDENTS are confident…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Practically all persons stood down from their employment as a result of the June flood and subsequent rains, had returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BELLINGEN. -- A further £3000 from the '"Sydney Morning Herald" flood relief fund received by the Bellingen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The June flood caused the cancellation of functions planned by the Grafton Base Hospital Younger Set during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This account of the misery and destruction caused by floods which swept through the Clarence from 1893 to June 1950, completes the series published by the "Examiner." Floods from 1839 to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since 1839 Grafton and the Clarence district have suffered 27 floods--four of them occurred in 1890 and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since 1839 Grafton and the Clarence district have suffered 27 floods-four of them occurred in 1890 and three in 1893…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Thurs.--Primary producers in New South Wales and Victoria have given nearly 800 tons of fodder to assist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →KEMPSEY, Thurs.--The flood threat position on the Macleay late this afternoon appeared easier although information from many parts of the watershed had not come to hand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grants of up to £100 were made in the distribution of £4230 by the Grafton City-Copmanhurst Shire Flood Relief Committee yesterday. SITTING throughout the day,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. G. Jolly, chairman of the Commonwealth-State Flood Relief Committee, announced yesterday that it had been decided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although Grafton, South Grafton and District Horticultural Society enjoyed a successful period for the greater part of the year, the June floods had brought in their wake a heavy handicap to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sun. -- Thirty-years-old Dr. George Goswell, of Walgett, has been awarded the Royal Humane Society's…
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