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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

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Minister to Inspect Flood Area

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed.: The Minister for Public Works and Local Government (Mr. Renshaw) will leave Sydney on…

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Official Flood Toll 23

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday — The North coast flood death roll is now officially confirmed at 23 by the Rescue intelligence section…

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Disease Checked in Flood Area

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday — Threatened outbreaks of disease on the flood-ravaged North Coast are now reported to be under…

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U.s. Flood Aid

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The U.S. Ambassador in Australia Mr. Amos J. Peaslee had offered U.S. aid for the…

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Flood deaths 23—official

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The North Coast flood deathroll is now officially confirmed at 23 by the Rescue Intelligence Section at Sydney Police Headquarters…

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Fodder Appeal for Flood Areas Transport Details To Be Arranged

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 4

Up till a late hour this af-ternoon the Junee District Superintendent of Railways (Mr. J. A. Jones) had not…

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Mayor and Shre President Open Pund in Junee to Help Northern Flood Victim

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

THE MAYOR OF JUNEE (ALD. C. LESLIE) AND THE ILLABO SHIRE PRESIDENT (CR. H. L ROB-ERTSON) IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE "SOUTH-ERN CROSS" WILL CONDUCT AN APPEAL IN…

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“Worst Floods In History” For Wagga

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 8

Inigo Jones says that Wagga will this year (next month) experience the worst floods in its history, He…

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Freak Storms Hit Sydney and Armidale

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday: Freak storms in Sydney and Armidals yesterday caused considerable property damage…

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Droughts and Floods

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

The whims of nature are beyond explanation and unhappily, often have tragic consequences. Only a few weeks ago the rich…

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Letters to the Editor (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents.) North Coast flood victims

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

SIR.—I have for the past week felt very concerned and distressed at the terrible reports to hand regarding the…

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Local Government Appeals for Help for North Coast Flood Victims

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 6

Local Government has opened a fund for the relief of victims of the disaster on the North Coast and an appeal…

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Minister Appeals for Fodder for Flood Areas

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, Hon E. H. Graham M.L.A., today appealed for gifts of fodder to…

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Reviewettes Flood Relief Fund

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1

We have been requested by Mr. R. B. Selleck, Lockhart' Shire Clerk, to state on behalf of the Shire President (Cr. Day) that a…

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Huge Cost of Floods on the Nth. Coast

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Floods had caused a loss of about £1,000,000 to Lismore business people, the Minister for Social Services (Mr. Landa) said today…

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Insurance on floods plan backed

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: The suggestion by the Deputy Opposition Leader (Mr. Calwell) for the…

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Fodder for Flood Victims Depot in Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 2

Since the article on the front page was printed, we have been advised by Mr. Paddy Grace that Mr. Lindsay Black has very…

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Flood Victims Appeal Fund Opened by Shire Council

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 3

The Shire President, Cr. O. J. Washington, presented the following minute to the meeting of the Shire…

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Starving Stock in Flooded Areas Appeal for Gifts of Fodder

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., makes an appeal…

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North Coast Farmers Crushed by Floods Warning of Another Cyclone in the Area

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

LISMORE, Wednesday— Scores of farms in the Lismore area will not produce again for 18 months, and many farmers, crushed by repeated flood losses, have decided to "give the game away" About…

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