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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1953

1,663 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 84

Stop Press Flood Danger

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 28

The Weather Bureau today reported that more falls of up to three Inches are expected on the North Coast Catchment Area…

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Floods' Big Toll in North Sheep Drowned. Crops Gone Ruin Seen

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2

Nearly a quarter of a million sheep have either been killed, or are endangered, in floods in the Richmond, Macintyre and Upper…

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Provisions For Flood Victims

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2

Sgt. Paul Askew (second from left) briefs boat crews before they set out to deliver provisions to…

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Floods' Big Toll in North Sheep Drowned Crops Gone Ruin Seen

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2

Nearly a quarter of a million sheep have either been killed or are endangered, in floods in the Richmond, Macintyre and Upper…

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Provisions For Flood Victims

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2

Sgt. Paul Askew (second from left) briefs boat crews before they set out to deliver provisions to…

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Provisions For Flood Victims

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2

Sgt. Paul Askew (second from left) briefs, boat crews before they set out to deliver provisions to…

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Floods' Big Toll in North Sheep Drowned CropsGone, Ruin Seen

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2

Nearly a quarter of o million sheep hove either been Skilled or are endangered, in floods the Richmond, Macintyre and Upper…

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New Flood Threat in Nth. Heavy rain causes river rises

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 3

Lismore, Coraki, Woodburn, and other Richmond River towns last night faced a new flood menace…

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Gale hits Scotland

The Sun · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.--A 60 mph gale last night swept the west coast of Scotland from the…

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New Richmond R. Flood Warning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 1

Weather Bureau officials last night expected a renewal of floods on the Richmond River. The Flood Warning…

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Mayor To Miss Coronation: Flood Decides

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday.— The Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman F. E. Roberts, M.L.A., said at a…

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Water Recedes From Flooded Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 5

DERBIS: A Lismore resident looks at the debris left outside a garage by receding floodwaters. The town was inundated by the Richmond River during the week-end, but last night was out of danger. CARAVANS: A, line of caravans,…

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More Floods Indict Govts

Tribune · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 1

It’s time the people took a hand ! Once again the northern districts and the north coast of New South Wales are being ravaged by floods, and once again the powers that be murmur “something must be done.”…

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Editorial. Flood Devastation in Europe Can Australia Help?

Construction · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 1

The recent flood damage to the North Sea coasts of Britain and Holland has awakened the sympathy of the people of Australia who alsi…

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State's Flood Gift

The Sun · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 36

State Government has contributed £3000 to Lord Mayor's appeal for relief of Europeon flood…

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Food dropped to floodbourtd

The Sun · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 9

Hundreds of people are cut off by swirling flood-waters in northern NSW, and a RAAF plane has begun an extensive series of mercy flights to drop food. In addition, boats are…

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More Facts Needed for Flood Control

The Sun · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 18

Over the last few days country men on the North Coast have been toiling through the mud,driving their stock to high ground--and fervently cursing the powers that be in general, and the Government in particular, for…

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Flood Relief

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 17

THE sum of £25 was collected for the British Flood Relief Fund at the Feminist Club, King Street…

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BIG R.A.A.F. Food Drop 400 Isolated In Northern Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 8

A R.A.A.F. Dakota left Richmond this morning to parachute supplies of food and fodder to more than 400 people who are marooned by floodwaters in Northern New South Wales…

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R.A.A.F. Food "Drop" 400 Marooned In Northern Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 2

A R.A.A.F. Dakota left Richmond this morning to parachute supplies of food and fodder to more than 400 people who are marooned by floodwaters in Northern Hew South Wales…

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