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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1950

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Lawson In? Flood Leads Kendell by 19 Votes

The Pastoral Times · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 1

Mr. E. B. Watkins, Returning Officer, advised the “Pastoral Ties” at noon today that 19 votes separate Flood (Lab.)…

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Items of News Hume Shire to Aid Flood Victims

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 July 1950 · page 2

President of Hume Shire Council (Cr T. Conway) yesterday launched an appeal, to assist the Sydney Lord Mayor’s NSW Flood…

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“Maximum Help For Flood Victims”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 July 1950 · page 4

CANBERRA, Fri.: The Commonwealth Government would give the maximum help wherever needed in flooded NSW,…

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Floodings Cause Heavy Coal Loss

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 July 1950 · page 9

SYDNEY, Fri.: Floodings and other causes cut coal production on the N.S.W. coalfields this week…

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FLOOD - Vunerable Kempsey May Be Moved to a Safer Site Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 2

Removal of the flood vulnerable town of Kempsey to a safer site or the introduction of a national insurance scheme to cover Kempsey and other towns subject to floods will be discussed by the Commonwealth-State Flood Relief Committee. Two State Ministers—Mr…

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Flood Relief Appeal

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 2
Also in The Pastoral Times

Thousands of people living in the North Coast areas of N.S.W., are suffering greatly as a result of floods, and an appeal to help them has been…

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Minister Surveys Flood Damage

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY Mo[?] Banana growers from Coff’s Harbor to the Tweed would lose an estimated 225,000 cases as a result of the…

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Councils Seek Aid to Repair Damage to Roads by Floods SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 8

A flood of applications from Shire Councils to the Government for financial assistance in the repair of roads damaged by excessive rains and floods already total £300,000…

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Music to Help Flood Victims

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Mon.: Music will help flood victims in the north. Mr Eugene Goossens will conduct the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at…

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Flood Relief

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 4

Madam— The Lord Mayor of Sydney (Aid. O’Shea) has requested all municipalities and Shres to…

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Radio Appeal Raises £109 for Flood Victims

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 1

The flood relief radio appeal conducted on Thursday night realised £109/4/, the mayor (Aid. J. P. Burchfield) stated…

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Efforts to Save Hillston From Flood

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: Forty council men at Hillston worked round the clock yesterday sandbagging a levee to save this little wool…

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Urgent Report to P.M. on Flood Disaster Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 3

Alarmed at the initial assessment of the damage resulting from what calls the “national” flood disaster of N.S.W., Mr Jeff Bate, M.H.R., tonight drafted an urgent report for the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies). Mr Bate, who is Federal representative on the Commonwealth-State…

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Flood Fund Appeal on National Level

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Lord Mayors of two capital cities have supported the scheme by the Lord Mayor (Aid. O’Dea) to extend the…

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Floods, Continuous Rain Cause Decrease in Wheat Acreage

The Pastoral Times · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 7

THE ACREAGE of wheat sown in Deniliquin district is about 10 per cent. less than last season. This information Is contained in the monthly report of lie district agronomist (Mr. G. A. Crawford) who cites floods and…

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£3 Million Storm Damage

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 1

PARIS, Fri.: Damage estimated at £3 million sterling was caused by a storm and hurricane which swept over…

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Heavy Rain in Queensland

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 14

BRISBANE, Sun.: Rises in the headwaters of the Condamine, Maclntyre, Burdekin and Fitzroy Rivers are expected by the…

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“Red Deluge”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 3

HONG KONG, Sun.: Chinese determination to occupy Formosa was reiterated by Foreign Minister Chou Enlai…

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flood Victims Urgently Need Money

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun: Money was the most urgent need of flood victims, the NSW Director of Social Services (Mr Bath) said tonight…

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