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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

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Destruction and Misery Described Flood Picture

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 1

A harrowing wordpicture of destruction and misery on the North Coast was…

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Fodder Appeal for Flood Area

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production (Mr. E. H. Graham) to-day…

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Spontaneous Response to Cash-clothes Drive for Flood Victims

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 1

In a mammoth drive throughout the Municipality on Saturday afternoon, members of Glen Innes' three Service Club collected more than 100 cartons of clothing and £87 in cash for North Coast people left…

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Pound Notes Salvaged From Flooded Sports Ground

The Inverell Times · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 4

At Oakwood on Saturday, a wild storm disrupted a sports day on Mr. Eric McCosker's property. The day began fine and the first half of the sports…

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"Father Of New State Movement" Wades Through Flood Water To Travel To Convention

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 4

Sir Earle Page, M.H.R., and the Mayor of Grafton, Aid. J. Moorhead, were the only North Coast representatives to attend the New England New State Movement Convention at Armidale on…

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State Government Criticised For Failure To Tack Steps To Check Flood Disasters

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

The New England New State Movement criticised State Goverments, past and present for their failure to adequate steps towards mitigation of disastrous floods in the northern coastal portions of…

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Flood Appeal

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 8

Armidale and district onations to the North Coast Flood Relief Fund total £302/7/8 They will acknowledged on…

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£400 Flood Money Sent to Sydney: Total Now £498

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

This afternoon a cheque for £400 to sent Sydney Lord Mayor's Flood Releif Fund. This was the first instalment of the Glen Innes Mayor's Flood…

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DROUGHTS v. FLOODS

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 4

THE WHIMS at nature are beyond explanation and, unhappily, often have tragic consequences. Only a few weeks ago the rich North Coast was gripped by a severe drought which drastically reduced agricultural…

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Lismore Farmers "Give Game Away" Ruined by Repeated Floodings

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

LISMORE: Scores of farms in the Lismore area will not produce again for 18 months and many farmers, crushed by repeated flood losses, have decided to "give the game away."…

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Armidale Man's Experience in Lismore Flood

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 8

Mr. G. B. Davidson, of Beardy Street, who returned on Friday from Lismore, said today that recent north…

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Pound Notes Salvaged From Flooded Sports Ground

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

At Oakwood an Saturday, a wild storm disrupted a sports day on Mr. Eric McCosker's property. The day began fine and the first half of the sports…

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Over £100 in Donations for Flood Relief

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

Warialda and district residents have raised a total of a little over £100 to help flood victims on…

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Warialda CWA Aids the Flood Victims

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

Members or Warialda C.W.A. at their monthly discussed the Flood Relief Appeal for the coastal…

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"The Standard's" Mail Bag Appeal for Flood Victims

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

May I, through your columns, thank all those persons who have generously given clothes to the appeal for the…

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Relief for Flood Victims

The Uralla Times · Thursday 4 March 1954 · page 1

Uralla branch of the Red Cross raised the sum of £29 through subscriptions and a collection box for the relief…

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Horror of the Floods

The Uralla Times · Thursday 4 March 1954 · page 1

Receding floodwaters in the Richmond River left behind a trail of death, destruction and chaos, the horrors of which…

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Long, Hazardous Trip at Height of Flood

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 2

Six men at present working in Glen Innes displayed amazing fortitude when they made a [?]48-hours ship to their homes in Graf[?] the height of the Clarence River Hood…

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Editorial Droughts and Floods

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 2

The [?] of nature are beyond explanation and unhappy [?] only a few weeks [?]was gripped by a severe [?]reduced agricultural…

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Women's Guild Donation for Flood Relief

The Inverell Times · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 2

St. Andrew's Church (Inverell) Women's Guild will send £55 to the Presbyterian Church general…

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