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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 61

Flood Clothing Theft Robbery At Red Cross Centre Loses £500 GOODS

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1948 · page 4

OVER £500 worth of clothing, most of which was to have been sent today to flood victims on the North Coast was stolen last night from the Woollahra-Darling Point…

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Flooding Occurs In South

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1948 · page 4

Torrential rain yesterday has caused minor floodings on many parts of the South Coast and on some…

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Flood Clothing Theft Red Cross Suffers Centre Loses £500 GOODS

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1948 · page 4

OVER £500 worth of clothing, most of which was to have been sent today to flood victims on the North Coast was stolen last night from the Woollahra-Darling Point…

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Modern weather checks to save cyclone damage

The Sun · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 7

Ravages of cyclonic storms and floods, with annual loss of millions of pounds to Australia, could be substantially reduced it meteorologists adopted more modern methods. Acting-director of…

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Water: Master or Servant? Lesson Of Floods To the Editor of the "Herald."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 2

Sir,—The recent flood in the Richmond River rose over 40ft above normal, and, while the flood was at its peak, mote than, 70,000…

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Flood Appeal Response Clothes Needed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 2

Response to the Red Cross appeal for clothes for-flood victims had been "absolutely splendid" an official said yesterday…

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Flood Victims' Clothes Stolen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 3

Thieves early yesterday morning stole clothing intended for flood victims at Lismore from the Australian Red…

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Floods Cause Unemployment

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 6

GRAFTON, Thursday.--About 250 seasonal workers, chiefly canecutters and fishermen are unemployed in the lower…

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Floods Cause Unemployment

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 6

GRAFTON, Thursday.--About 250 seasonal workers, chiefly canecutters and fishermen are unemployed in the lower…

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Flood Control Plans for North Coast

The Land · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 13

ANNOUNCING that a flood mitigation committee would be set up to consider the provision of works to minimise flood damage on the…

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To Reduce Flood Damage Conservation Minister Has Big Opportunity

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

ALL Australians sympathise with those unfortunate residents of the North Coast of…

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Big Area Still Under Floods

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Friday.--Nearly 75,000 acres in the Richmond district are still flooded. About a mile of the Coraki to…

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Big Area Still Under Floods

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Friday.--Near 75,000 acres in the Ricl mond district are still floode About a mile of the Coraki…

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Deluge of Milk Train Derailed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 5

Twelve thousand gallons of milk were lost when a goods train was derailed near East-wood Station early yesterday…

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Capitalism Cannot Stop Floods, Poverty

Tribune · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 4

NOW that another disastrous flood has caused millions worth of damage in the Northern Rivers area, the head of…

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North Coast Floods State Should Foot Bill

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 3

FLOODS on the Richmond and Clarence Rivers, or on any rivers for that matter, should be no longer ascribed to acts of God…

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Rowdy Union Crowd Raged at Referee Illegal Tackle Caused Storm

Truth · Sunday 27 June 1948 · page 19

In a rowdy finish to the Gordon-Manly Union match at Chatswobd Oval yesterday, referee L. Toma-lin was made the subject of an unjust demonstration. Tomalin had ruled "no try"…

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Bathing Beauty Centre Of Church Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 June 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, June 27 (A.A.P.).—The sponsors of a bathing beauty contest at Wheeling (West Virginia) have…

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Claims for Flood Relief Considered

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 2

THE Flood Relef Committee, -1- which comprises . Federal and State representatives, today will consider the first batch of…

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Storm Brewing On Boy Prodigy

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 4

CHICAGO, Wednesday.--A court fight looms over the nine-years-old orchestra conductor, Ferricio…

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