Appeal For British Flood Victims
Members of the Newcastle Red Cross Special Functions Auxiliary, who worked during war years serving meals at the tea shop in Pacific…
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Floods & storms, 1947
365 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 19
Baby Show for Red Cross Flood Relief
Yvonne Dunstan was judged the champion girl and Garry Hardiman the champion boy at a baby show organised by Broadmeadow Red Cross in the Mechanics Insitute yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Local Scouts To Make Homes Canvass For British Flood Fund
Teams of Boy Scouts will make a house-to-house canvass of Newcastle suburbs on Saturday in support of the Red Cross Flood Victims' appeal. The appeal is being organised by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Empire Day Aid For British Flood Victims
On the playground of Junction School the words "Food for Britain," the letters made up of food parcels and clothing, typified the efforts of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cars Lit 'Drome For Storm Landing
DUBBO, Sunday.—A Butler Airways plane, flying from Cunnamulla (Q.) to Sydney with 17 passengers, had trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Buildings Razed By Storm In Tasmania
HOBART, Sunday.—Buildings were razed, many houses and buildings damaged, and produce stores flooded in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£1000 Grant for Lake Flood Damage
Provided Lake Macquarie Shire Council met the balance of the estimated cost of £4336 for the whole programme, his department was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Accidents In Heavy Rain
SYDNEY, Friday.—Within an hour, two old-aged pensioners were seriously injured to-night while crossing Pacific Highway near…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Rain Inland: 100 Points Here
Further heavy rain fell in Newcastle and Inland districts yesterday and last night. Some heavy showers fell in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heat Wave Ends In Storms In Britain
LONDON, Wednesday.—Storms ringed London as Britain's record heat ware ended. Thunder, lightning and hailstorms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Toronto Red Cross Flood Relief Effort
The street stall organised in aid of the Flood Relief for Britain Appeal raised more than £28. which, with £50 collected by Toronto…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plans For Hunter Flood Mitigation
SYDNEY: The report of the Hunter Flood Mitigation Committee set up last year by the State Government has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wickham Aid For Flood Victims
Wickham Red Cross branch has raised £66 for the combined Red Cross appeal for British Flood Relief. A donation of £50 was made to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wallsend Gives £82 to Flood Relief
Wallsend Red Cross Auxiliary and other charitable organisations have, collected £82 6s towards the British Flood Relief Appeal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Withstood the Gale
THE TWO original masts at Nobbys signal station have decayed. Although holes have been eaten almost through the base, they withstood the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water 10ft. Deep In Streets Of Flooded Town
NEW YORK, June 9. A.A.P.—The swollen Mississippi River and its Iowa tributary, the Des Moines River, presented a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Balsa-Wood Raft Was Too Good For Ocean Storm
NEW YORK, Wednesday: The balsa log raft of the Pacific-Ocean-crossing Norwegians has come undamaged through a severe storm south-west of the Galapagos Islands…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cheque For Flood Relief Appeal
At Newcastle Red Cross meeting yesterday the Treasurer (Mrs. Northcott) said a cheque for £100 had been received by the branch from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Out of Control in Gale
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Forced to heave-to for 24 hours off Gabo Island because huge seas kept throwing its propeller and rudder clear…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collections For Flood Relief
Donations for £1051/15/ have been collected in Newcastle in a month for the combined Red Cross Flood Relief for Britain Appeal…
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