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Floods & storms, 1954

2,104 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 106

Parcels for flood areas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 9

Necessities for North Coast flood victims such as tinned and packaged food, children's clothes, blankets, sheets, pillowslips, crockery, and curtains, are being sought for immediate…

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Exploiters of floods in Lismore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 13

LISMORE, Thursday. --Many racketeering operators have arrived in Lismore and other…

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Parcels for flood areas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 9

Necessities for North Coast flood victims such as tinned and packaged food, children's clothes, blankets, sheets, pillowslips, crockery, and curtains, are being sought for immediate…

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Exploiters of floods in Lismore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 13

LISMORE, Thursday. --Many racketeering operators have arrived in Lismore and other…

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American Concern for Northern Flood Victims Offer by U.S.A. give aid

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 3

The United States has offered to assist the State Government in cleaning up flood devastation on the North Coast…

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Death Roll in the Flood Areas Now Totals 23 Big airlift of fodder for stock

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 3

Probably the biggest airlift of fodder ever attempted in Australia is now under way, in an effort to save more than 23,000…

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Exploiters of floods in Lismore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 13

LISMORE, Thursday. --Many racketeering operators have arrived in Lismore and other…

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Parcels for flood areas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 9

Necessities for North Coast flood victims such as tinned and packaged food, children's clothes, blankets, sheets, pillowslips, crockery, and curtains, are being sought for immediate…

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American Concern for Northern Flood Victims Offer fey U.S.A. to give aid

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 3

The United States has offered to assist the State Government in cleaning up flood devastation oh the North Coast…

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Exploiters of floods in Lismore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 13

LISMORE, Thursday. --Many racketeering operators have arrived in Lismore and other…

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Meteors May Cause Heavy Rain

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 27

A study of the relationship between heavy rain and showers of meteors is being made by Dr. E. G…

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Heavy Rain Damages Hunter Wine Grapes

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 16

THE Hunter River's record wine grope crop has been severely damaged by heavy rain, Mr. H. L. Manuel said this week, Mr. Manuel is…

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Dutch-Australian Weekly "After the storm..."

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 2

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Flood Appeal to Country 250 Councils Askes For Aid

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

TWO hundred and fifty municipal and shire councils throughout New South Wales will be asked to join appeals for North Coast flood victims. Damage from the floods, which began last weekend,…

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Another Flood Disaster

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 4

THE grim picture of destruction and desolation which has now emerged from the North Coast flood area, after days of scanty reports and public apprehension, will raise a…

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Angry Flood Meeting Demands £3,000,000 Damage Could Be Stopped-PPU Man

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

The wealth of the North Coast has gone down the dram in the floods, and the losses, particularly over the past 10 years, would have more than paid for an ambitious flood mitigation…

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Shocking Misery, Ruin in Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 4

LISMORE, Thursday.—A frightening picture of stark tragedy, incredible misery and shocking ruin emerged as communications are…

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Disastrous Coastal Floodings Could Be Minimised Six Point Plan

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 3

North Coast farmers and settlers, brought the verge of ruin again by disastrous floods, are asking "surely something could be done to…

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The Worst Floods in History

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 13

FIVE MILES FROM CASINO: This twisted railway line is grim evidence of the force of last week-end's flood. This is the main North Coast railway line five miles from Casino. MACLEAY COMES TO TOWN AGAIN: The Macleay River caused millions of pounds worth of damage when it again came to Kempsey. These men are rowing out on a rescue mission…

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Flood-bound Cattle Get Fodder by Air

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

Police and volunteers help airmen to unload lucerne from a R.A.A.F. relief plane at Evans Head yesterday. The lucerne was flown from Brisbane and then distributed to starving cattle in the Woodburn area…

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