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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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When ten inches of rain fell in Kyogle in little more than 24 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, with heavier falls in areas feeding the upper tributaries, the Richmond River reached a peak height of 58 feet early on Wednesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy losses were suffered by Tweed banana growers in the cyclonic rains this week. Because of the absence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most arduous journeys ever undertaken by a man to reach the woman he intends to marry must be that of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday: A Woodburn message tonight said that four acres on the school hill was the only dry and in that area and was like Noah's ark with people, horses and catte shea[?]ing on it from the flood. Floodwaters at least Eve feet d[?]ep still covered the rest of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The president of Murwillumbah Red Cross Branch, Mrs A. Hillman, has received an urgent telegram from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The position of dairy farmers in flooded areas on the Tweed would be critical for the next few months and production on many farms would be practically nil, the district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday: The Minister for Conservation, Mr Weir, said today that the Government would set…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Friday: The Prime, Minister, Mr. Chifley, announced today that Cabinet had decided, to make a grant of up to £10,000. for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The actual level of the flood this week was 1 ft. 11½ inches below the level of the record 1945 flood in Lismore, the Engineer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Friday.--Federal Cabinet to-day decided to make a grant up to £10,000 as flood relief to N.S.W. Announcing this decision, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said the grant would be made on a pound for pound basis with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GARDEN parties, are ever at the mercy of we weather. After one postponement of its party last week the Base Hospital Women's Auxiiary had a special meeting and set the date for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir.--I agree with the remarks of Mr. D. A. Hopper, of Byron say, as reported in Friday's "Northern Star," with regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The above photograph, taken yesterday morning, shows part of the flooding at the Carlton Park race track, which was to have been the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BALLINA, Friday.--A Ballina woman who was held up by devastating floods in Canada a few weeks ago on the first stage of her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FLOOD WATERS from Fawcett's Creek rose over the Kyogle-Ettrick road at Kyogle. The road runs in front of the building in the foreground. At rear is the Kyogie-Brisbane railway bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LOOKING up river from the Lismore bridges on Wednesday. Many people were rescued from the roofs of houses around this area. At left is the Winsome Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Sunday: The disastrous floods in the Northern Rivers this week this N.S.W. just as the N.S.W. Government was beginning, to turn attention from inland to coastal water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LISMORE, Sunday: Flood damage to properties in the mid-Richmond area is more serious than at first thought. About 10,000 head of stock are starving m the flood area It is still impossible to assess the full loss, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] of Lismore Apex Club checking donations in the flood relief appeal at 2LM yesterday. Left to right: Messrs. M. Perry, W. R. Tresise, E. Payne, R. Balzer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GRAFTON, Sunday. --Snakes washed by, flood out of their winter hibernating spots have infested the Cowper-Bushgrove area…
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