Britain Faces Further Floods
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Britain's hastily improved East Coast sea defences easily withstood the high tides of last night, but will have to face a tougher test tomorrow when the…
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Heavy Rain at Lismore
LISMORE, Monday: Torrential rain caused rapid rises in local streams at Lismore late today…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—Officials said, today that if heavy rain continued to fall over the State, crops would suffer, large scale…
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Lockhart Shire Council has opened a district fund to assist those who suffered by floods and storm damage in Europe…
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SYDNEY, Monday: The Weather Bureau tonight issued flood warnings for nine Northern New South Wales…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Continued rain over most of New South Wales today is not expected to cause major flooding…
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On Saturday next, a street stall will be held to aid the victims of the recent floods in Britain and Holland…
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SYDNEY, Friday—Reports from Far North Coast towns to-day indicated that the Tweed and Richmond rivers and their…
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LONDON, Friday—Britain's recent floods in which 307 lives were lost will cost the country…
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As a combined effort of C.W.A. branches throughout N.S.W., the sum of £1250 has been sent to aid victims of the recent European floods. This was revealed at a…
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LISMORE, Friday: Lismore tonight was preparing for its second major flood in five years. The Richmond River height at 8 p.m. was 29 feet above…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Flood waters are swirling through low-lying areas near Goodiwindi, on the N.S.W.-Queensland border, after bursting the banks of the McIntyre river at 2 a.m. today…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Men, women and children at Goondiwindi, on the N.S.W.-Queensland border, were tonight working feverishly to build up a sandbag levee protecting the town from the swollen MacIntyre River…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—Officials estimated today that floods had killed or trapped about 250,000 sheep in the Richmond,…
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SYDNEY, Monday: The Maclntyre River, running in high flood, tonight poured into Goond[?]windt. on the…
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SYDNEY. Monday: The British Commonwealth and countries of me world had made a tremendous response…
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IN response to an appeal by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, the Mayor of Cootamundra (Ald. D. F. Stratton) arid the President…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—More than 400 people are marooned by floodwaters in Northern New South wales and are awaiting…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: An Air Force Dakota will tomorrow parachute food supplies to 300 men, women and children who are floodbound…
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SYDNEY, Thursday — An Air Force Dakota yesterday parachuted food supplies to, 3[?], people, isolated by flood waters' at…
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