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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms
104 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 6
Rawdon Island has had it! The torrential rain which accompanied the cyclonic disturbance of the 24th and 25th March brought to the Island MgjgBBt flood since 1929. At Its greatest height, probably between 3 a.m. aha ;4 a.m., Tuesday, the level was about 3s feet below that of 17 years ago. Ironically enough, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The marooning of two travellers on the main highway north of Gloucester, which was the highlight story of local flood news last week, had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Interviewed by Mr. Vincent, MLA, early on Tuesday morning last, Messrs. Fitzgerald, of the State Treasury, and Mr. Elkin, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cows grazing on the streets, one of the oldest council subjects, occupied considerable time of the council meeting on Monday night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With roads and outlets from farms still blocked by the backwaters of the recent disastrous flood and a return of the rainy conditions, Kempsey Show, held under the auspices of the Central North Coast National Show Association, carried on this week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reviewing the tragic consequences and material damage following the record Bellinger River flood, the Bellingen Shire Clerk (Mr. F. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The urgent need for the Federal Government to give aid to farmers on the flooded North Coast area of New South Wales was emphasised by Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cr. Mighell: Who is going to report on the flood damage. Is the Engineer going to do it. The President: It has to be an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Photo above was taken at Wauchope end of Wauchope Lane. An hour or so earlier the water lapped the piping around the roof of the dairy bails seen in the picture. Mail contracting for over 50 years. "Bill" Bailey has never failed to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Now that the rainy depression has passed over and the waters of the recent flooding have receded, many may be prone to think of the flood as a passing phase, and that things are now back to normal and all is well. Far from this being the case, all is not well. There has been a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A carrier pigeon service to bring flood messages from Copmanhurst was ready to operate when the final warning of another flood on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A correspondent writes: Mr. Bert Schubert, manager of Mr. Grant's farm at Coolongolook, had a narrow escape from death in a recent flood in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the worst train smashes on the North Coast line for years occurred last night when a fast fruit train went through a culvert halt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Manning Shire Council acted with creditable promptness after the recent floods to repair roads and bridges which had been damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some bulldozers and earth-moving plant had been made available for flood relief, but if this was insufficient to met the demands of shires…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eight people were hurt when great waves battered ferries attempting to cross Sydney Harbour this morning when torrential rain which began at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eight people were hurt when great waves battered ferries attempting to cross Sydney Harbour this morning, when torrential rain, which began at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →So many people have expressed their interest in reading "The Macleay Chronicle" account of the 1864 flood that Mr. Fred Gill, of East Kempsey,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An application for flood relief grant, totalling £1120, submitted by by the Shire Engineer, Mr. E. H. Harris, was approved by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bellingen Shire Council last week received a letter from up-river settlers, asking for a two-mile deviation to be made near the 14-mile (from…
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