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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
549 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 28
Mr. Jack Gerard, manager of the Tasma. Theatre, who flew over the flooded Far North Coast yesterday to film the devastation for Cinesound, described the scene as "an unforgettable tragedy."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood doors installed in the Coloperating Dairy Association building at Raleigh saved the g at Roleganaved the machinery- tcmd stocks when the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Instead of surrounding gardens homes in South Grafton in 1950 were surrounded by deep stinking masses of hyacinth, mud and, other debris. As flood-waters recede hyacinth is now being deposited at South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A frail of havoc spreading over scores of square miles of the Clarence River district was revealed as floodwaters began to recede yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Top: Only a small gap between the floodwaters and a vital part of equipment at Grafton electricity sub-station prevented the city being blacked out, at the worst stage of the 1950. Similar scenes were enacted on Sunday. Bottom: When normal supplies were completely disorganised in the 1950 flood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As water receded from the main business area and the eastern part of Grafton last night, residents of the suburb of Westlawn prepared for a flood level which could reach that of 1950 by 2 p.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The naked body of an old aged pensioner, Thomas Bryce, of Cloud's Creek, was discovered floating among flood debris on Carr's Peninsula, on Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Several adults and children were treated at Grafton Base Hospital casualty room yesterday for cuts to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Cambridge street, South Grafton, woman, who was discharged from Runnymede Hospital with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five floodboat crews operating in the flooded areas of Grafton yesterday had only routine flood-work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Commonwealth Government has made a £40,000 grant for flood areas on a pound for pound basis with the New South Wales Government. Announcing the grant the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the floodwaters receded from scores of houses at South Grafton yesterday, residents took up the laborious and heartbreaking task of cleaning out silt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday much of Grafton and South Grafton was covered by floodwaters from the Clarence. Picture shows highway from Lismore to Bungalow. The road is again covered by floodwaters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All members of the Copmanhurst Shire Council last Wednesday rose from their deliberations in the Council Chamber in Grafton and travelled fourteen miles alone rain-swept roads to inspect the Whiteman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This picture taken in Britain's Big Freeze a month ago, shows two English farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.--The Queen to-day sent a message of sympathy to flood victims in Northern New South Wales and Queensland. The Queen's message was sent to the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIDNEY, Tuesday.--A six-year-old boy is recovering after a half hour immersion in floodwaters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tues.--State and Federal Governments are expected to make a combined initial grant of £80,000 for flood relief on the North Coast of N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tues.--New South Wales Minister for Social Welfare, Mr. Landa, will leave Sydney on Friday morning to visit flood areas on the North Coast After the visit Mr. Landa…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir Earle Page, Federal Minister for Health and member for Cowper, reached Grafton…
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