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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

247 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 13

Battle Against U.S. Floods

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 April 1952 · page 2

ST. JOSEPH (Missouri) Mon.—St. Joseph, a city of 70,000, was preparing to-day to keep out the flooding…

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U.s. Floods

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 April 1952 · page 1

KANSAS CITY, Wed.—Flood workers built levels higher in Kansas City to-day, spurred by the…

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Flood Mitigation Importance Stressed

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 April 1952 · page 6

The importance of flood mitigration on the Clarence River was stressed by the president of the…

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Floods Likely On South Coast

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The Weather Bureau to-night forecast floods on the South Coast…

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Undertake Repair Of Floodboats

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 4

The question of flood boats provided by the Copmanhurst Shire Council for outlying and isolated centres was debated at Wednesday's meeting…

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Flood Peak In Kansas City

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 1

KANSAS CITY. Fri.—The peak of the floods has passed Kansas City. The flood choked…

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Flood Crest Bearing Down On City

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

CLINTON (Iowa), Sun.—A record Mississippi River Hood chest yesterday was bearing down on Clinton…

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Flood Danger Has Passed

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The flood danger on the South Coast has passed with the return of fine weather. All roads on the Far South Coast where…

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Worst Flood In Salt Lake City

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 1

SALT LAKE CITY (Utah), Mon.—The worst flood in the history of Salt Lake City to-day covered a…

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American Floods

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 3

SALT LAKE CITY (Utah) Tues. Mountain streams and rivers poured icy flood waters over a wide area of Utah's lowlands…

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C.W.A. To Urge Flood Mitigation

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 4

South Grafton branch of the C.W.A. will be represented at the forthcoming meeting of the Clarence Advisory Committee in Maclean. A case in support of flood mitigation on the…

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National Flood Insurance Plan In America

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wed. --President Truman has urged Congress to establish, without delay, a…

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Marooned By Flood

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 May 1952 · page 2

LAUNCESTON. Friday. Floodwaters have marooned more than 130 people in and around Coles Bay…

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Importance of Flood Control No. 1

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 2

In considering the regulation of the Clarence River for the production of hydro-electric power or…

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Flood Control in U.S.A. No. 2

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 2

Recognising the importance of curbing the damage done by floods. U.S.A. authorities have spent vast…

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Bolstering The Flood Levee

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 4

Steps being taken by the City Engineer (Mr. G. E. Walker) to improve the Ulster Lodge flood embankment were praised by Grafton City Council aldermen at Monday…

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Flood Forecasts No. 3

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 May 1952 · page 2

The United States Weather Bureau estimates that its flood forecasting service is preventing damage to…

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Farmers' Flood Losses

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 May 1952 · page 4

A strong appeal to farmers to come forward with a statement of losses incurred by the 1950 floods was made by the president of the Clarence District Council of the P.P.U…

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Cars Collide In Heavy Rain

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 May 1952 · page 2

During heavy rain on Friday night, two cars collided on the Armidale road about three mile's from…

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Flood Mitigation

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 2

MACLEAN, Wed.--To assist the case for flood mitigation to be placed before the Advisory Committee…

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