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773 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 39
LISMORE, Wednesday.--Receding floodwaters today left Lismore's business section coated with slimy mud. In hundreds of private homes residents have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While floodwaters are receding on the North Coast, the Nepean River has broken its banks and has cut the railway line between Richmond and Kurrajong. Kurrajong is isolated. None…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →None of the Queensland Rugby League team to play N.S.W. at the S.C.G. on Saturday will have to fly to Sydney. The full team left Brisbane by train yesterday and…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →UNDER WATER, Flood waters sweeping over the banks of the Richmond River into the heart of Lismore. Photo taken from an R.A.A.F. plane, TRAPPED. Horses and cattle on the flooded Pacific Highway, Murwillumbah. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LOS ANGELES, Thursday.--A vast counterfeit ring has flooded the Los Angeles area with . more than 20 000 000 bogus meat coupons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SERIOUS aftermath of the worst flood in Lismore's history is the complete failure of water and sewerage service in the town's most thickly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WOODBURN, on the lower reaches of the Richmond River, was marooned when the river broke its banks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MAIN CENTRE of Murwillum bah, on the Tweed, where all but the highest sections of the township were under water…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TWO ROWS of telegraph poles are all that marks the main road to Windsor and Richmond. Flooding of South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is reported from Brisbane that the chief engineer of an Allied ship was killed and four other members of the crew were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--A small ship with 37 people an board nearly foundered 200 miles from Newcastle in the storm on Monday night. It sailed into Newcastle Harbor today with a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OVER 8,000 residents in the Lismore district were forced from their homes early in the week when the worst flood in living memory did damage estimated at £500,000. Air force planes parachuted supplies to homeless residents of the town and amphibious jeeps took in further supplies of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods have caused extensive hold-ups in the Lismore district, and near Sydney the main Windsor road is flooded. Top: The traffic bridge at the highest section of the shoppings and business centre of Lismore. Bottom: The Windsor road between Richmond and Windsor seven feet under water yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal and State Governments are co-operatins' to bring immediate aid to victims of this week's disastrous floods in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood danger had not entirely passed from New South Wales yesterday, but it was centred on the Nepean River, the lower waters of the Hunter River, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Above: Woodlark Street, Lismore, looking toward the recreation ground. The flood waters were more than six feet deep in parts of this area. Below: Magellan Street, looking towards Pound Hill, with the High School on the left, where the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Huge seas have broken through a high sand embankment south of Ballina to an arm of the Richmond River, and caused a new flood peril to a closely-settled farmnig area. Concern is felt for the safety of several families at Bora Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milk supplies to households and shops in Sydney and Newcastle will be cut by one pint in four from today. The new cut has been caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Immediate relief to flood victims on the North Coast has been promised by Federal Ministers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LISMORE, Thursday.--The danger centre in the Lismore flood area shifted today to 30 square miles of farm land near Ballina, on which 360 families are isolated…
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