£40,000 For Flood Relief
SYDNEY, Friday.— Flood victims will receive £40,000 from the flood relief race meeting held at Randwick in…
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Floods & storms, 1954
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Homes And Crops Lost In Flood
BAGHDAD, May 16. A.A.P. — About 100,000 farmers in southern Iraq have lost their crops and homes in…
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Raymond Terrace Chamber of Commerce has sought the co-operation of the Hunter Valley Conservation Trust in a proposal to erect a levee bank to protect the lower part of the town from flood…
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LONDON (O.S.R.)—Fountain pens are not to be compulsory for the 600 boys and girls at Hemel Hempstead (Herts) Grammar School after all. The headmaster, Mr. J…
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AUCKLAND, May 19. A.A.P.-Reuter. — Widespread devastation throughout Auckland province has followed three days of continuous rain with…
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WELLINGTON, May 20. A.A.P. — Two Tearoha farmers are believed to have been swept away by…
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The retiring President of Maitland Chamber of Commence (Mr. E. A. Fletcher) said yesterday that unless…
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SYDNEY: A total of £50,000 was distributed yesterday from the N.S.W. Flood Victims' Relief Fund for…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — The State Government had approved grants of more than £227,000 to North Coast…
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Out of the policy speech of Dr. Evatt were questions that should receive priority, said Mr. Kevin J. Barlow, Labour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gale Snaps Floating Dock's Mooring Lines; Port Peril
Lashed broadside-on by a wind of gale strength, the huge Newcastle floating dock snapped some of its moorings at the Wickham Dolphins…
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HOBART, Sunday.—Southern Tasmanla's wildest weather for years has cut almost every road leading out of…
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BELGRADE, June 4. A.A.P. —Twenty people have been drowned in floods sweeping Slovenia and Northern…
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Snow fell on parts of the Blue Mountains last night and this morning. Temperatures in some centres were below freezing point. In Tasmania, Hobert has been almost marooned by…
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SYDNEY: A new cyclone building up in the Tasman Sea will bring more bitter weather, with lashing winds, snow and rain, to eastern Australia…
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WELLINGTON, June 8. A.A.P.-Reuter.—With the mainsail in shreds and one of the crew nursing a badly…
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Many difficulties mitigated against the implementation of an equitable flood damage scheme, the Premier (Mr. Cahill) advised Newcastle Chamber of…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday— The supply ship, H.M.A.S. Woomera, which sheltered for three days in Waterloo Bay,…
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LONDON, June 23. A.A:P. —West German scientists will soon begin rocket experiments to try to influence the…
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LAREDO (Texas), June 30. A.A.P.—Flood waters of the Rio Grande shattered a railway bridge near here early…
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