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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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This picture, taken from the Brisbane General Hospital, shows the Bowen Bridge road. The tramway waiting shed was almost submerged by the flood waters. To the right of the picture can be seen trams and motor cars held up by the water. Flooded areas at Fairfield can be seen in this photograph, with the railway line in the foreground…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fourteen members of North Bondi Surf Club who flew to Newcastle yesterday to take part in the local surf carnival had plenty of excitement on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Members of the Lismore Ladies' Benevolent Society will be at the council chambers from 10 a.m. to 12 noon to-day to distribute clothing to persons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Heckenberg and family, accompanied by the former's nephew, Mr. Colin Heckenberg, reached Coraki on Thursday afternoon after an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. and Mrs. E. Comerford and family, returned home yesterday after spending several weeks at Evans Head were Mr. Comerford has just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following additional donations to the flood relief fund are acknowledged:—Sympathiser (Mullumbimby) £1, Mrs. R. McKenzie, senr., £1 1s,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Commissioner's Creek was rather fortunate in the recent flood. Apart from, the crossings being badly scoured and several landslides, there were only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The aftermath of the flood is responsible for several evils on the Mid Richmond. To say the stench is abominable is putting it mildly, writes our…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Since the last meeting we have had a record flood. The experience only reiterates what this chamber has urged for many years as a means of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following additional donations to the flood relief fund are acknowledged:—Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd., per A. F. Griffiths,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Chief Engineer for Water and Sewerage has told the Council that the city experienced two distinct floods the week before last—the first over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Each morning this week members of the Lismore Ladies' Benevolent Society who have undertaken the distribution of the flood relief fund, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Lawson, in the House of Commons, moving the second reading of the Unemployment Bill, embodying increased borrowing powers, instanced…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is heartening' to know that the Tuckombil-Evans River flood escape scheme is still within the realms of possibility, and that fresh efforts arc about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The need for Council-owned rescue boats for flood times was discussed at Murwillumbah, Municipal Council meeting on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The monthly meeting of Woodburn Shire Council was held at Coraki on Tuesday, there being present Councillors E. A. Wagner (president), F. J…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Lismore Methodist Ladies' Church Aid Society, per Mrs. H. C. Blanch, has donated £2 2s to the flood relief fund. Parcels of clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—It is a natural consequence of the disastrous flood recently experienced at Lismore that the attention of citizens should be keenly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SYDNEY, Friday.--At first hot, with squally north-west winds in the north and western districts, but cool squally south to westerly change in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The flood aroma is dying down in Coraki, but around Bungawalbin, Swan Bay, and Sandy Creek it is still "fierce." A mixture of black water,…
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