The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore Wednesday, June 1, 1949. Flood Prevention Prevented
REMARKABLE restraint seems! to have been displayed by one public meeting of Bungawalbyn-Swan Bay ratepayers…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Damage Caused On Tweed During Gale
An icy, south-westerly wind swept across the Tweed valley on Saturday,- causing minor damage to many farms on the south and…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Leaving behind it a trail of damage, estimated at thousands of pounds, a violent gale, which yesterday swept the eastern part of the State, eased late to-day. Winds, which reached a velocity of over 70 m.p.h. yesterday, subsided…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Boat Building To Cost £14,755
A tender of £14,755 for the construction of the Lismore Water Brigade and Rowing Club building in approximately six months was accepted at a meeting of the Lismore City Council…
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Damage which occurred to bridges in Tintenbar Shire during the 1948 flood is still unrepaired due to an acute shortage of bridge building equipment. Tintenbar Shire Engineer (Mr…
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Floor levels of new residences in Lismore will in future have to have a minimum clearance of one foot above the 1945 flood level in the locality concerned. This was decided by Lismore…
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CORAKI, Wednesday.—The Government had no plan for flood mitigation for the Richmond Rives and staff had not been available to carry out invests gallons, the President of Woodburn Shire Council (Cr…
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At its meeting yesterday, the Kyogle P.A. and H. Society directed its secretary, Mr. L. E. Thomas, to make investigations in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gundurimba Urged To Reduce Flood Damage Deficit
The Department of Local Government has urged Gundurimba Shire Council to take steps to reduce the accumulated deficit in its general fund. The request was made in the…
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Sir,—Many of Britain's foremost industrialists sprang from the [?] ranks of people living in poverty. Before being [?] "Lord…
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The electrical storm which broke over Kyogle on Wednesday night brought a fall of 43 points of rain, according to the register at the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Further flood warnings were issued by the Weather Bureau late tonight for the coast of New South Wales from Port Macquarie to Jervis Bay. Already, floods have isolated townships,…
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The main southern highway was blocked when the Nepean River broke its banks, flooding roadways and inundating market gardens and pasture lands in the district. Above: Traffic moving slowly across one of the subm erged bridges…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Although floodwaters are receding in many areas of the New South Wales coast, leaving a trail of drownings and destruction, the position in the Lower Hunter River Valley has become critical…
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Appeals to help flood victims were made last night by the Mayor (Ald. R. E. Churchward) and the Deputy Mayor (Ald. K. Robson). When Station 2LM went off…
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Kyogle organisations have rallied in an effort to collect clothing, food, blankets and any other form of relief which may be of use to the thousands of stranded people in the flood area. The effort to obtain relief for the flood victims is not confined…
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CASINO, Monday.—Loading gangs will work throughout the night at the Northern Co-operative Meat Company returning a 10,000lb meat…
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Members of Lismore women's organisations were willing helpers at the flood relief depot in Molesworth Street yesterday. They…
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CANBERRA, Monday. — The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) announced tonight the Commonwealth Government would be…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — A flood mitigation programme for the Hunter Valley, to cost over £10,000,000, has been approved by the State…
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