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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

247 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 13

Flood Damage £350,000

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--This year's flood damage in N.S.W. had been estimated by councils as at least…

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Jap Textiles Flood Market

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Fri. Japanese textiles are now flooding Empire markets, and for the first time since the war…

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Length Covers Floodboat Crews

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1952 · page 2

Only a length separated the six crews which took part in the Grafton Volunteer Water Brigade's…

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Telephone Lines Cut By Storm

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--All direct telephone and telegraph services between Sydney and Melbourne…

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Floodboat Series

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 September 1952 · page 5

G. Wade has a narrow lead in the Hastings Bros, floodboat trophy being conducted by the Grafton…

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Senator Nixon Weathers Storm

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thurs.-- Senator Nixon appears to have weathered a violent political storm to continue…

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Restoration Of Flood Damage

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thins.--The N.S.W. Government would apparently have to meet the full cost of restoration of recent…

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Large Field Contests Floodboat Event

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 September 1952 · page 5

Seven crews took part in the fourth round of the Grafton Volunteer Water Brigade Hastings Bros…

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Wagga Flood Control

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 October 1952 · page 7

WAGGA. The Wagga Flood Control Advisory Committee has appointed a five-man investigation…

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Floods Put Clock Back To Pioneer Days

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 October 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday-- Floods have put the clock back to pioneer days for woolgrowers along the…

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English Flood Appeal

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 October 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.--Britain's fund to aid the victims of the great West England floods, which wrecked…

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Exciting Finish in Floodboats

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 October 1952 · page 5

E. Cooper's crew won the sixth round of the Grafton Volunteer Water Brigade's Hastings Bros, trophy event…

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Flood Holds Up Water Samples

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 2

Dr. Donnellan, Health Officer Department of Health, Lismore, advised last night's meeting of the Grafton and…

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Flood Prevention

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 2

MAITLAND, Thurs.--The Hunter Valley Conservation Trust will ask the Water Conservation and…

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Food Areas Also Are Flood Areas

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 October 1952 · page 3

The fact that the areas from which the largest increase in food production can be expected are the areas…

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No Risk, Yet, Of Flooding

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--There is no risk at present of serious flooding on N.S.W. inland rivers, although…

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Battled Through Pacific Storm

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1952 · page 1

VANCOUVER, Mon.--The liner Aorangi, soon to be retired, battled through a major Pacific storm…

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Floods Isolate Towns, Villages

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--Several towns and villages on the Far South Coast are isolated by floodwaters, all rivers in the south-eastern quarter of the State are rising, and more rain has been forecast in that area…

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High Wind During Storm

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 November 1952 · page 2

A storm which hit Grafton and South Grafton shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, was accompanied…

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