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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

178 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 9

Heavy Rain Sweeps Clarence Holiday Resort

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 3

Heavy rain swept Clarence holiday resorts yesterday. Late in the afternoon prospects for fine weather to-day were brighter…

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Still Feeling Effects Of Flood

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 2

CHATSWORTH. -- New Year's Day began with rain at Chatsworth. Most people were disappointed as they felt that…

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Moroccan Flood Deaths

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 3

RABAT (Morocco), Thurs. (AAP). -- At least 71 persons Have been drowned and 60 others missing in flood waters…

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Storm Interrupts Play Centre Games

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 2

National Fitness Play Centres at the Primary School playgrounds at Grafton and South Grafton, looked deserted yesterday afternoon after the heavy storm…

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Storm Damage

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 2

BELLINGEN.-- A severe storm accompanied by hail and wind, struck with full force at Kalang. Mr. S. E. Lovell, who has been…

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Floods in Queensland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 3

BRISBANE, Fri.--Police and volunteers to-day evacuated families in lowlying areas as widespread flooding continued…

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Long Walk Follows Flood Losses

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--The family which left Sydney last Tuesday to walk to Melbourne, and arrived at Bowral, 90 miles away on…

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Flood Damage in Queensland

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sun.--A new Australian lost his life, five people narrowly escaped death and great damage was done to…

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Rockhampton Prepares For Record Flood

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues. -- Families have been evacuated from low-lying areas of Rockhampton, and wharves stripped of…

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Holiday Was Not "For Flood Work"

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Tues.--The holiday granted to Grafton High School on December 14 was not in recognition of the staff's…

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Storms Slash and Scour Shire Roads

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 10

Troubles never come singly! It would normally be accepted that the appalling havoc of the 1950 flood visitations and the shockingly inadequate…

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Floodings Prevent Arrival Of Salvation Officers

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 2

Captain and Mrs. Coker, of Tinga, who were to have been welcomed by Grafton members of the Salvation Army last…

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Storms Force River Rises

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 2

Continued rainstorms over the Clarence district have forced rises in tributaries and creeks, submerged low-level bridges, and disrupted motor traffic in some parts…

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Rockhampton Flood Death

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 3

BRISBANE, Friday.--A 17-year-old youth was drowned in floodwaters near Rockhampton this morning…

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Hunter Flooded

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.--Heavy rains during the past 48 hours have caused flooding along the Nepean, Hunter, Hawkesbury…

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Maitland Flood Not Yet At Peak

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.---Rising backwaters at flood stricken South Maitland to-day forced another 50 people from their homes. About 300 residents are now homeless. Maitland police warned to-night…

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Shire Treated "Shabbily" Flood Repairs

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 January 1951 · page 3

MACLEAN.--Harwood Shire Council had been treated shabbily by the Department of Local Government in its grant for flood damage repairs, said Cr. K. Taylor at a meeting of the council on…

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Grim Outlook For Flooded Families

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Maitland police said to-night that some fa[?]ilies flooded out at South Maitland will not he able to return home for six or eight weeks…

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Hunter Flood Delays Trains

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 3

Unless the flood position on the Hunter River improves suddenly to-day, passengers on trains to and from Sydney…

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Volcanoes And Floods

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 January 1951 · page 2

EVEN to those who can be regarded as veterans in flood experience must come the thought how lucky they…

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