Uranium Camp Flooded
DARWIN: A team of uranium prospectors is cut off by floods on a secret location in the N.T…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1954
428 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 22
Storm Damage At Scone
Scone's main street was under water for an hour last night when a heavy storm flooded water channels. Two inches of rain fell…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.A.A.F. May Drop Food. Floods Isolate 5000 Homes In Q'land
BRISBANE s The Queensland Government is planning to use R.A.A.F. planes to drop food and medical supplies to Queensland towns isolated by floods. Rockhampton's…
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BRISBANE.—R.A.A.F. and commercial planes to-day delivered food and urgently-needed medical…
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YOUNG: Rus Petit dived to the rescue of his mother and uncle when their car was swept away by a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Flooded Rockhampton Grimly Awaits Tomorrow's Cyclone
ROCKHAMPTON: Rockhampton's 40,000 flood-bound people are "battening down the hatches" today to meet the cyclone which is due to strike tomorrow. The mayor (Alderman Pilbeam) appealed to residents still in flood danger areas to take shelter in refuge centres or with friends on higher ground…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone Batters 60-Miler
SYDNEY: A collier, arriving in Sydney from Newcastle today suffered a terrific hammering in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone Now Menacing South Coast Towns
The Sydney Weather Bureau reported today that at 6 a.m. the centre of the cyclone was 60 miles east of Port Kembla. moving S.S.E. at about 10 knots. Very heavy rains and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads Cut by Floods
Floodwater has cut the Pacific Highway between Stroud and Gloucester, and the New England Highway between Maitland and Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Drown in Floods Havoc Over Wide Area
At least seven people have lost their lives and many more are missing in the worst flood disaster in the history of the N.S.W. North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Water Advances on Morpeth Maitland Likely To Escape
Farmers in lowlying areas around Morpeth were preparing yesterday for a flood expected from the Hunter and Paterson Rivers by this morning. But the flood threat to Maitland eased last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Delays Court Case
The absence of two witnesses doe to the flood conditions stopped a court case from being completed at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Death And Destruction In Worst North Coast Floods
SYDNEY: It is thought that at least 19 and possibly 22 lives have been lost and many millions of pounds worth of damage caused by the worst floods in the history of the North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EDITORIAL Floods Are A National Responsibility
NOW THAT it has become possible to take stock of the havoc wrought by the floods, the devastation on the North Coast is seen as a great national disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Toll 22 Dead; Many More Missing
Twenty-two people are dead, many more are missing and millions of pounds worth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage After Flood
Flood devastation at Casino. A house in the background was torn from its foundations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Flood Work
Signalman E. McGauley checks his wireless equipment in an Army duck at Newcastle yesterday before going to Hinton. The duck took food and other supplies to the area, where flooding has occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Harbour To Be Tested On Flood Effect
Extensive tests will be made in about a fortnight to determine the effect of the entry of muddy floodwater into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Huge Loss in Floods
Enormous losses are being revealed as the Northern N.S.W. flood picture becomes clearer Up to 3000 people are homeless in Lismore and many more are marooned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death Roll In Floods Is Now 23 Grim Trail Of Ruin As Flood Waters Drop
Thousands of North Coast people today are wading through receding floodwaters in a grim trek back to wrecked and badly damaged homes…
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