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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 61

Mail Lost in Northern Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Saturday.--A Lismore mail contractor, Mr. E. Smith, had a remarkable escape from death near…

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Mail Lost in Northern Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 3

LISMORE, Saturday.--A Lismore mail contractor, Mr. E. Smith, had a remarkable escape from death near…

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9 Reported Missing in Flood Thought To Be Sheltering Aborigines Aid Rescue

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Saturday.--Mine persons, four of whom are children, are reported missing in the floods in the mid -Richmond district, which are still…

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Mail Lost in Northern Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Saturday.--A Lismore mail contractor. Mr. E. Smith, had a remarkable escape from death near…

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Mail Lost in Northern Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Saturday.--A Lismore mail contractor, Mr. E. Smith, had a remarkable escape from death near…

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9 Reported Missing in Flood Thought To Be Sheltering Aborigines Aid Rescue

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Saturday.--Nine persons, four of whom are children, are reported missing in the floods in the mid- Richmond district, which are still…

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Mail Lost in Northern Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Saturday.--A Lismore mail contractor, Mr. E. Smith, had a remarkable escape from death near…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

9 Reported Missing in Flood Thought To Be Sheltering Aborigines Aid Rescue

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Saturday.--Nine persons, four of whom are children, are reported missing in the floods in the mid- Richmond district, which are still…

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Rural Help for Victims of Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 5

Under the State Government flood relief scheme, farmers in necessitous circumstances could…

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Our cyclone warnings come too late

The Sun · Sunday 20 June 1948 · page 6

THE cyclone which hit the north coast of NSW this week came without warning--so will many…

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Flood Victims in Dramatic Escape

Truth · Sunday 20 June 1948 · page 32

LISMORE, Saturday.—Police and civilians today searched 20 miles in an open boat in the Tuckean Swamp, 15 miles from Lismore, for a man, his wife and two children, about whom nothing had been heard since last Wednesday…

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Family Missing in Flood

The Sun · Sunday 20 June 1948 · page 5

ONE family, including four children, is missing in the flooded mid-Richmond area, Lismore…

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OPINION Why hit the flood victims?

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 June 1948 · page 7

THERE are two disasters in the flooded north. One is the visitation itself…

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Flood-damaged banana farm[?] "will take 2 years to repair"

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 June 1948 · page 2

It will take many North Coast banana growers at least two years to make good damage caused by the present floods. Growers believe that the immediate result…

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Letters to the Editor Lesson of the Floods Silted Waterways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 2

Sir,—Much sympathy is felt for the people of the North Coast of this State owing to the widespread devastation caused by…

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Stock in Peril Starving In Flood Area

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 3

Valuable stock which survived the floods on the Far North Coast last week, may die of starvation…

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Food Supplies for Flood Victims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 3

Residents in the Woodburn area who were flooded out last week took off their shoes and socks and paddled through flood waters in the street to form a chain to unload bread supplies which arrived from Broadwater…

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Hospital in flood township

The Sun · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 2

An emergency hospital for flood victims was established today at Woodburn--one of the…

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Planes Take Fodder to Flood Area 2000 Dairy Cattle Perish

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 7

Two RA.A.F. planes flew fo Evans Head aerodrome yesterday with fodder for starving cattle at Woodburn in the Far North Coast flood area…

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Big Waves Flood City

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 5

NANKING, Monday.-- Thousands were drowned and entire blocks of houses were swept away when…

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