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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

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No Great Benefit From Xmas Storm

Macleay Argus · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 3

The Upper Macleay generally received little beneficial rain from the storm which swept the area on…

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Floodgate Repairs

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 4

At the Macleay Shire Council meeting on Monday a request from R. B. Walsh, on behalf of the estate of…

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Houses Collapse in Gale Swept Germany

Macleay Argus · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 17. -- In face of an eighty-mile-per-hour gale, hundreds of bomb shattered homes collapsed like packs of cards at Frankfurt yesterday. Nine people were killed, and scores injured…

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Forster District Death Links Maitland Gale

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 3

The death at Booti Booti, twelve miles from Forster, on Monday, of Mr. Ernest Jacob "Dot" Gogerly, recalls as a family link the Maitland gale which swept the N.S.W. coast in the early part of the…

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Grafton Hybrid Storm Proof

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 4

An Australian maize hybrid inbred developed by the New South Wales Department of Agriculture at its Grafton Experiment Farm…

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Upper Manning A.& H. ASSOCIATION. Floodlighting Possible For Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 3

A meeting of the committee, of the Upper Manning A. and H. Association was held in the Protestant Hall, Wingham, on…

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Sunday Brought Useful Storms on North Coast

Macleay Argus · Monday 1 February 1954 · page 1

Yesterday afternoon brought useful storms that extended from the Nambucca to Port Macquarie…

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Minister's Opinion on Flood Cutting

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 3

The Minister for Public Works (Mr. J. B. Renshaw) has informed Mr. L. C. Jordan, M.L.A., if the Macleay Shire Council desires to proceed with the construction of a flood relief cutting, at Crascent…

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Sharp Storm at Forster

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 9

In a very sharp storm, which broke over Forster late, on Sunday afternoon, 54 points of ran were registered…

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New Maize Can Stand 80 m.p.h. Gale

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 3

A special type of maize, known as Y-1, is being developed at the Grafton Experiment Farm by the…

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Macleay Flood Relief Cutting

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 2

The Minister for Public Works, Mr. J. B. Renshaw, has informed Mr. L. C. Jordan, MLA, if the Macleay…

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Q'land Floods

Macleay Argus · Friday 12 February 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Feb. 11: An overall picture to-night showed 14 roads are cut by flood waters. telephone lines…

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Flood Warning for North-west

Macleay Argus · Monday 15 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Feb. 14. -- The Weather Bureau this afternoon issued a flood warning in the Gwydir, Castlereagh and…

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Rockhampton Awaits Flood

Macleay Argus · Monday 15 February 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Feb. 14: To-night the people of Rock-hampton are calmly making preparations to meet the…

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Rockhampton in Grip of Flood

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Feb. 16. -- Although the peak of the flood is not expected to be reached before Thursday, the city of…

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Crescent Head Flood Cutting

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 7

The Minister for Public Works (Mr. Renshaw) informed Macleay Shire Council, on Monday, that no funds are…

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Cyclone Is Approaching Q'land Coast

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Feb. 18. -- The Weather Bureau tonight said that a tropical cyclone, increasing in velocity, is moving…

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Death And Devastation In Path of State's Worst Cyclone in Path of State's Worst Cyclone

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 1

Nine people hare lost their Lives, and the fate of 10 others is in doubt, in one of the worst cyclonic storms ever to strike the N.S. Wales North Coast, and cause the most (Continued from front page) brcke its banks, and was spreading over a wide area of low country…

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Flood On Manning Reached Peak Early To-day Manning Receding at Very Slow Rate Flashback to Flood of 1950

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 1

Cyclonic conditions and torrential rain which accompanied them, resulted in a major flood on the Manning, although this district was much more fortunate than those to the north of it (Continued from Front Page) Since the peak of the flood was reached shortly before 3 a.m. to-day the Manning has been receding at a very slow rate…

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Local Interest in Casino Flood

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 2

Gloucester people who know Casino have expressed amazement at the collapse during the flood there of the Irving bridge, the main…

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