Storm Retards 'Phone Repairs
A violent electrical storm which drenched Lismore last night retarded work on telephone lines by wetting cables. P.M.G. linesmen and…
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Floods & storms, 1954
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Ex-servicemen's Flood Claims
All ex-servicemen who had been granted re-establishment or agriculture loans by the Repatriation Department and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queues in Lismore for After-flood Bargains
"Sale fever" was so great yesterday that policemen were called to control the surge of women into shops in search of after-flood bargains. Women commenced queueing up in front of a frock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Tape Cut to Speed Flood Relief Minister's Pledge
There would be no red tape in dealing with claims by district people for flood relief assistance, and the State Government would stand to the limit of its resources to help the district recover from the flood disaster, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Health Precautions Against Flood Refuse In Streets
Rubbish tips and piles of flood refuse will be sprayed today Sydney health departmental officers working with Lismore City Council health officers to lessen the risk of disease. The seriously overtaxed local resources for the removal of the great…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seeking Homes Above New Flood Level
Several Lismore residents affected by the flood have already bought land on high ground and others are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Mitigation "Govt. Matter"
"The Commonwealth and State Governments will have to bear the burden of flood mitigation on the Northern Rivers," Lismore city engineer, Mr. H. G. Murray, said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Cause Chaos In Sport Plans
The worst floods ever on the Far North Coast have thrown preliminary organisation of the winter sporting season into chaos. Annual meetings in Rugby…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Speed Promised With Flood Relief
THE ASSURANCE by the Minister for Social Welfare, Mr. Landa, in Lismore yesterday that relief assistance would be determined on the spot without the delay of red tape formalities…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Paintings Escape Flood
By a coincidence, a Lismore artist's two paintings were saved from the flood, and both were hanging in different…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Set New Record at Nimbin
NIMBIN, Friday. -- the river at Nimbin reached a record height of 29 feet six inches at 2.15 p.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Funeral of Flood Victim
CASINO, Friday. -- Casino's second flood victim, the late Mr. Clarence Thomas Jones, aged 43, was buried today…
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Proceeds of a concert to be given by the A.B.C. Symphony Orchestra in the Town Hall. Sydney, tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Photo Contest
KYOGLE, Sunday.--A scheme to provide sets of the best photographs taken during the Kyogle flood and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Urgency in Stark Flood Lessons
AS FLOOD HAS followed flood in grim sequence in the last 10 years on the North Coast there has been a consistent demand for a positive official approach to the problem of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Minister Sees New Flood Rescue Boats
The Minister for Social Welfare, Mr. A. Landa, was impressed by a demonstration of a new type of portable motor launch at Coraki yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Insurance Plan Proposed
SYDNEY, Sunday.--A State-wide insurance scheme should be started to help counteract effects of floods and fires, Dr. L. J. Parr (Lib., Burwood) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →India Offers £1000 for Flood Relief
SYDNEY, Sunday.--The Government of India has offered a contribution of £1,000 towards the flood…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Concert for Flood Relief
SYDNEY, Sunday.--Fifteen hundred people tonight attended a concert in the Sydney Town Hall in aid of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Most Devastated Area I Have Ever Seen" ... Minister Appalled by Lower River Flooding
"This is the most devastated area that I have ever seen," said the Minister for Social Welfare, Mr. A. Landa, yesterday as he inspected areas in the lower Richmond district. Mr. Landa with a group of…
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