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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

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Grant to Repair Flood Damage at Wantabadgery

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 8

The Department of Public Works will contribute a grant of £170 towards the estimated cost of £840 to repair flood…

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550 Flood Victims Claim Aid

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The State Government had received 550 claims for financial assistance from…

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Flood Victims' Appeal

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 1

Donations to the flod victims' appeal include: Previously acknowledged : £108; Mrs. A. R. Herd £22: Mr. D. McCallum…

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Meadow Hay for Flood Victims

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 1

By rail yesterday 450 bales of meadow hay left Tumbarumba for flood victims of the North Coast of New…

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Flood Relief Appeal

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 6

The Methodist Church of N S. Wales was in conference in Sydney at the time of the North Coast floods and it was resolved…

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Gift of £500 to Flood Fund From Pakistan

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday: The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Casey) announced to-night that he had received…

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A Story of Coastal Flood Devastation

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1954 · page 4

One of the few consoling things about disaster is the way it penetrates into the heart of those who have escaped it and calls forth responses of the kind that builds nations. So much of our lives is…

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Floods

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 2

As Commonwealth representative on the New South Wales Flood Relief Committee I flew over the North Coast…

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Lockhart Flood Relief

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 1

Cr. W. K. Day, the Shire President, had a good response to his appeal for the Relief Fund at the saleyards on Friday…

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Flood relief "a bad habit"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Appeal for flood relief had given great assistance in the past, but they tended to become a bad habit, Mr. W. T. Robinson (Grafton)…

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Grant for Flood Damaged Parks

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 1

The State Government has made available through the Minister for Lands, a sum of £10,000 to assist trustees of flood…

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Bagdad Flood

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 1

BAGDAD, Sunday: Flood-waters from the swollen Tigris River Sowed into the streets and buildings of…

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Storm in tea cup

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The committee of the New South Wales Trotting Club was almost certain to send a report…

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Page: Floods Can Be Prevented

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 3

MACLEAN, Tuesday: "Floods can be prevented on the Clarence River," Federal Health Minister…

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£3704 raised in Wagga flood appeal

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 2

The Mayor's Northern Rivers Flood Relief Appeal officially closed yesterday with £3704/2/7 in hand. Although the appeal is…

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Election Storm Tip

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 4

The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) last week forecast a good deal of personal abuse in the May election…

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Thousands Are Trapped in Big Flood

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

BAGHDAD, Sun. (A.A.P.): Thousands of Iraqi farmers, trapped when flood waters from the River Tigris swept…

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The Northern Floods Were Shocking

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

A Richmond River correspondent gives some sidelights on the flood: Every window in Lismore’s…

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Decision to Enter Ratepayer's Land Necessary to Relieve Swampy Conditions and Flooding of Temora Road

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 2

Following a report from the Cootamundra Municipal Council's engineer (Mr. D. F. Stewart) last night, it was decided to enter the land of Mr. G. Sissian for the purpose of forming a channel in…

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Flood Peril

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 4

LONDON, Monday: Flood peril came back to the east coast of Britain last night—just over a year since the…

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