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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

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Says flood area needs equipment

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Equipment which is now being sold to overseas interests, is actually the answer to combat our flood menace in the north, according to Mr…

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Flood Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 2

An appeal for the Lord Mayor's "Northern Rivers Flood Relief Fund" will be broadcast over station 2WG…

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Lockhart Flood Victims' Relief Fund

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 1

The Council urgently appeals for donations of cash, fodder or clothing for the Flood Victims' Relief Fund…

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Big State flood grants

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The Stars Government would grant another £40,000 for flood relief on the North Coast, the Premier (Mr. Cahill) said today…

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Radio Appeal Nets More Than £1000 for Flood Victims

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 2

A one-hour appeal over radio 2WG Wagga last night raised well over £1000, 1320 bales oF hay, and 70 bales of chaff for the flood-stricken north coast. When the appeal had…

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Page advocates works to prevent floods

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Federal Health Minister Sir Earle Page today advocated implementation of schemes for flood prevention on Northern N.S.W. rivers. He has Just returned from a…

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200 Bales Worth £100. Domation to Flood Victims Appeal

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 8

Mr. J. A. McCarthy, of "Tilboroo", Illabo, has donated 200 bales of meadow hay to the fund being organised…

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Flood Relief Appeal to Be Made at Capitol

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 2

The northern Rivers Flood Relief committee will appeal for funds after the screening of a newsreel at the Capitol…

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Despatch of Fodder to Flood Areas

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 2

Department of Agriculture officer (Mr. R. C. Madson) says that all the donations of fodder now in hand for…

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Holbrook Helps Flood Victims

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 5

The Holbrook Shire Clerk (Mr. R. A. Roberts) yesterday announced that £77 had been collected for the N.S.W. Flood…

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£160,000 for flood relief

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Commonwealth Government will make available an additional £40,000 for flood…

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Floods Interfere with Royal Visit

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday — Farmers in two districts of Northern Queensland are using tractors to two trailer loads of people…

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More Donations for Flood Relief Good Response in Junes District

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 5

There have been 33 individual donations in this region to the fodder flood relief appeal instituted by by the…

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Clothing, Money for Flood Victims Successful Appeal in Junee and District

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 3

This week clothing and money will be despatched to the Lord Mayor of Sydney for distribution amongst flood…

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Shire Flood Relief Appeal an Urgent Need

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

At Tuesday’s Coolamon Shire Council meeting an appeal was read for donations to the fund for the…

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Floods Prevent Many People Seeing Queen Carriages fail to get through

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday: Because the main Northern Line from Brisbane was blocked by floodwaters at Home Hill, carriages for the special trains could not get through to take people to Townsville to see the Queen today…

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Letters to the Editor (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents.) Mayor's Flood Relief Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1954 · page 2

SIR,—Please allow me to correct a reference I heard over a national station on Wednesday morning regarding my…

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£6000 in Flood Appeal Response at Theatre

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 2

An appeal to a pocked house at the Capitol theatre on Saturday night sky rocketed the Mayor's Northern Rivers flood relief appeal to on amount well over…

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Flood Fodder Appeal Now Closed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production (Mr. E. K. Graham) said yesterday that he greatly appreciated…

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Stock Replacement in Flood Areas

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 1

The Gundagai P. and A. Society are conducting a survey in regard to the availability of Springer Dairy Cattle for…

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