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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1955

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A.P.F.A. Anxious To Help Flood Victims

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 June 1955 · page 39

The executive of the Associated Poultry Farmers of Australia is contacting all its members in areas devastated by the recent floods to find out what losses they…

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Daairymen's Flood Fund Over £4000

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 June 1955 · page 10

Milk Zone Dairymen's Council general secretary, Mr. L. C. Turton, said recently that the council's flood relief fund, for use in the badly-flooded areas of the Hunter…

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Fall In Payments Due To Flood Damage

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 June 1955 · page 12

Flood damage in many dairying areas and the longer time being taken by settlers to become fully established on their blocks were responsible for the fall in payments…

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An Umbrella from the Sea Susan felt that each gale would blow her heart away. Any moment Glyn might be called to man the lifeboat

The World's News · Saturday 4 June 1955 · page 32

TO Susan the summer was far more than a time of blue skies and soft winds and warm,…

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Fine Flood Job by Many Organisations

Tribune · Wednesday 8 June 1955 · page 11

NEWCASTLE: The Seamen's Women's Committee have made a fine contribution towards assisting…

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Red Cross Gives £17,000 To Hunter Flood Victims Hunter Valley flood victims this week received £17,460 from the Red Cross Society

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 June 1955 · page 1

Announcing this the General Secretary of the Society, Mr. A. B. Challis, said that…

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Floods Cause Cane Losses

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 June 1955 · page 33

May floods on the Tweed River have caused losses to both maize and sugar cane…

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Flood Assistance Still Available

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 June 1955 · page 12

Financial assistance is available to land-holders who suffered loss in the February floods, the acting Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Nott, said this week…

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Bialoguski Packs Bags As... Storm looms for Menzies over Petrov

Tribune · Wednesday 22 June 1955 · page 2

What are the Petrov Judges thinking as they are left to ponder over their final report with the whole Petrov Affair crumbling further into fiasco every day?…

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Flood Relief Merrylands-greystanes Committee. President Hands Over Cheque For £1081

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 22 June 1955 · page 4

At last meeting of Holroyd Council the president of Merrylands Greystance Sub-Committee of Holroyd Council Flood Re[?]…

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Big Sheep Losses In Old Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 1

BRISBANE.—It is estimated that sheep losses in last month's record floods in central and central…

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Taxation Officers To Help Flood Victims

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 8

Officers of the Taxation Department will visit country centres during July to help with their returns farmers who suffered flood damage in February…

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May Flood Damage Slight

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 12

Flooding during May in the County of Cumberland did little damage to orchards, reports…

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The Sunken City of Port Roval More than two and a half centuries ago it was known as the Pirates' Babylon, catering to vice and debauchery. Then came the deluge

The World's News · Saturday 25 June 1955 · page 9

THE lure of gold drives men mad! I know—for I felt a strange twinge of that madness myself as we heaved to near the outer rim…

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points from Letters They Couldn't Evict the Flood Victim

Tribune · Wednesday 29 June 1955 · page 11

MAITLAND (NSW): Miners' leaders were emphatic at Lot 31, Nissen Huts Rutherford, last Saturday week: "The coppers won't be…

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Seed Potato Flood Appeal

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 July 1955 · page 24

Tableland potato growers have until July 6 to contribute seed potatoes for the…

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The Accused He would never forget that feeling of guilt that flooded over him as he faced her son

The World's News · Saturday 2 July 1955 · page 27

THE trial had ended two days before but Jowett, when he closed his eyes, could still hear the judge's impatient gavel, the steady drone of traffic outside the close,…

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Over £1,080 Raised By Local Flood Appeal committee

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 6 July 1955 · page 2

President of the Merrylands-Greystanes Flood Appeal Committee, Mr. H. T. Bradley, submitted the final report and balance-sheet to last week's meeting of Holroyd Council…

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Maitland Hails Govt's £1 Mill. Flood Relief Scheme

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 July 1955 · page 1

The State Government's £1,000,000 plain for flood control in the Hunter Valley, adopted by Cabinet this week,…

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Show Goes on Despite Flood Damage

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 July 1955 · page 27

SINGLETON.—Despite the recent devastating flood the Northern Agricultural…

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