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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

2,104 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 106

Mirror gives £500 to Flood Appeal

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

The Daily Mirror has donated £500 to the appeal opened today by the Sydney Morning Herald in aid of flood victims. This newspaper…

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Flood Victims Sick Pneumonia, dysentery

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

The hospital in flood-devastated Lismore today became an emergency station as the first pneumonia patients joined others suffering from dysentery and gastro-enteritis…

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Sydney's swift aid to flood victims

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 3

In three hours today Sydney people gave enough clothing to outfit 2,000 children on the flood-battered North Coast. The donations were made after Station 2GB at…

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Flood Victims Sick Medicines rushed in

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

Three R.A.A.F. planes rushed blood plasma and other medical supplies to Casino this morning for patients in Casino and Kyogle Hospitals who are injured or sick as a result of the unprecedented floods…

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Flood Victims Sick Medicines rushed in

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

Three R.A.A.F. planes rushed blood plasma and other medical supplies to Casino this morning for patients in Casino and Kyogle Hospitals who are injured or sick as a result of the unprecedented floods…

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Melbourne's Flood Help

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- Hundreds of Melbourne people have responded to a radio…

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Lord Mayor appeal for flood victims

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 3

The Lord Mayor (Ald. Hills) announced today that he had set up an appeal for money to alleviate distress caused by the North Coast floods. Ald. Hills said a…

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Flood Victims Sick Pneumonia, dysentery

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

The hospital in flood - devastated Lismore today became an emergency station as the first pneumonia patients joined others suffering from dysentery and gastro-enteritis. Over-worked doctors and nurses are cramming beds into every spare…

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Mirror gives £500 to Flood Appeal

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

The Daily Mirror has donated £500 to the appeal opened today by the Sydney Morning Herald in aid of flood victims. This newspaper…

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£150,000 to Stop Flooding

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 3

The State Government will spend £150,000 on a Macleay River project to…

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Flood Victims Sick Medicines rushed in

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

Three R.A.A.F. planes rushed blood plasma and other medical supplies to Casino this morning for patients in Casino and Kyogle Hospitals who are injured or sick as a result of the unprecedented floods…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Mirror gives £500 to Flood Appeal

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

The Daily Mirror has donated £500 to the appeal opened today by the Sydney Morning Herald in aid of flood victims. This newspaper…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Sydney's swift aid to flood victims

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 3

In three hours today Sydney people gave enough clothing to outfit 2,000 children on the flood-battered North Coast. The donations were made after Station 2GB at…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Flood Victims Sick Medicines rushed in

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

Three R.A.A.F. planes rushed blood plasma and other medical supplies to Casino this morning for patients in Casino and Kyogle Hospitals who are injured or sick as a result of the unprecedented floods…

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Cyclone Flings House Into Deep Floodwaters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 1

This home at Murwillumbah was flung into 15 feet of water when it was struck by the cyclone. The owner, Mr. E. Smith, left the house with his wife and small child shortly before it was blown away…

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Plates Buckled Cyclone hits freighter

The Sun · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 19

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Wild seas off Coffs Harbor buckled ¼in steel plates on the 3100-ton freighter Culcairn…

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'Hot Gospeller' in big storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 20

After a calm trip across the Atlantic, the American hot gospeller Billy Graham arrived in London yesterday to find a storm raging about his head…

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'Hot Gospeller' in big storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 20

After a calm trip across the Atlantic, It he American hot gospeller Billy Graham arrived in London yesterday to find a storm rain about his head…

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'Hot Gospeller' in big storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 20

After a calm trip across the Atlantic, It he American hot gospeller Billy Graham arrived in London yesterday to find a storm rain about his head…

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'Hot Gospeller' in big storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 20

After a calm trip across the Atlantic, It he American hot gospeller Billy Graham arrived in London yesterday to find a storm rain about his head…

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