Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Floods & storms, all years

Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

549 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 17 of 28

Training by Floodlight

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 7

Rugby League football training is now in full swing for the official opening of the season on May 2. The above photograph of a team training under floodlight at night is of members…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Temporary Protection Against Flood

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 3

Grafton City Council last night took the first step to give temporary protection against inundation of the city through the gap washed in the Great Marlow…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Flood Hardship Support

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 5

The Queensland branch of the Building Workers' Industrial Union is supporting Grafton City Council…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Federal Grant Towards Flood Relief

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 April 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA, Fri.-- The Commonwealth Government has approved a further grant of £30,000 towards…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Torrential Rains,Floods And Cyelones Set Council's Plans A- wry

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 1

Speaking at Wednesday's meeting of Dorrigo Shire Council, the President (Cr. W. H. Bailey) said that although the position of Council at the beginning of the year was most promising…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

To Provide Cyclone Warnings

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tues. -- The Brisbane Weather Bureau is to be provided with additional facilities to…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

'Ducks' For Flood Work

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--Army "ducks" will be established in northern areas for emergency flood work an…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Flood Relief Closing Date

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 2

The Comonwealth - State Flood Relief Committee has announced that it has fixed Friday, May 7,1954, as the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Flood Mitigation Composite Report

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 6

A request by the South Grafton Municipal Council concerning a composite report on flood mitigation by…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Flood Relief

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 2

The Grafton-Copmanhurst Joint Flood Relief Committee met yesterday to make payments to a further 34…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Hospital Campaign On Floods

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 2

Grafton Base Hospital board of directors last night advanced their campaign for flood mitigation…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Councils Agree on Repairs to Flood Breach

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 4

A GREEMENT on the de sign of the work and course of action with the provision of a temporary…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Stop Floods and Support at Least 500,000 People

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 2

SIR Earle Page, as guest speaker at South Grafton Rotary Club's dinner meeting explained how…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Floods in Western Australia

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 3

PERTH, Fri. -- Floodwaters racing down the Fitzroy River after heavy rains in the Kimberleys are…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Flood Causes Weed Infestation

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 2

Grafton City Council last night discussed ways and means of ridding the city of a prolific growth of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mitigating Floods Pending Big Plan

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 5

WHILE it is generally agreed that construction of the Gorge Scheme would solve the problem of flood…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Floodline Show Symbolises Fighting Spirit Of Farmers 81st Grafton Exhibition An Orderly Eye-opener

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 3

Grafton's much battered Showground his withstood more assaults than any other in the State. But yesterday, at the opening of the 81st Annual Show, there was little evidence of the constant floodings which have swept over its compact…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Lismore Red Cross Thanks Local Branch For Flood Relief

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 4

Thanking Coffs Harbour Branch, Red Cross, for its valued assistance during the February floods, Mrs. J. A. Askew, secretary…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

New Home for Flood Victim

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 2

Volunteers with the aid of a diesel truck moved a house five miles from Shannonbrook to Casino to…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Flood Grant Made Show Possible

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 3

But for the response of the Minister to an appeal for a grant for flood restoration work, it might not have been possible to hold the 1954 Grafton Show…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →