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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1955

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Show Opening By Chairman of Milk Board Reference to Flood Sufferers

Nepean Times · Thursday 3 March 1955 · page 2

SYMPATHETIC reference was made to flood sufferers in speeches at the official opening of Nepean Show on…

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Public School's Flood Fund

Nepean Times · Thursday 3 March 1955 · page 4

Penrith Public School's donation to the flood relief fund has been increased by £9 above the amount mentioned on Page 1[?]…

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High School's Flood Relief

Nepean Times · Thursday 3 March 1955 · page 4

The raising of funds for flood relief has been taken up by Penrith High School staff and pupils with considerable energy…

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Amazing Response To Flood Relief Appeal

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 1

From all over the State have come stories of amazing generosity, often involving personal sacrifice, in response to appeals for goods and fodder for the relief of starving stock in the stricken areas of the West…

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Money Flood

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 1

A "flood" of money is now pouring in from world - wide sources to aid N.S.W…

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Stock Losses in Floods May Be Over £4,000,000

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 1

Preliminary estimates of stock losses in the new south wale floods, made sheep have been killed, while cattle losses are expected to be relatively light…

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Death and Disaster in Hunter Valley Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 20

RAILWAY LINE: An aerial photo of this railway line in the Maitland area shows the severity of this week's floods. Lines were washed away in many places in the Hunter Valley and the north-west and rolling stock worth thousands of pounds has been damaged by flood-waters…

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The Floods, North and West

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 3

CLEANING UP at Maitland. A housewife tackles a mass of mud left in her home by the Hunter flood. DUBBO FROM THE AIR after the Macquarie River had flooded the town last…

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J.F. Flood Offer

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 3

Raleigh Junior Farmers' Club has offered to accommodate 30 club members…

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The Floods— And After

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 2

The unprecedented floods which have ravaged the Hunter Valley and the north-western districts of New South Wales have drawn an equally astonishing response…

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People and Paragraphs Fleeces For Flood Victims

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 2

THE greater part of the fleeces on show at Armidale Wool Show last week have been given by…

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Floodwater In Tractors

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 30

Farmers with tractors, trucks, or cars caught by the floods should not move them,…

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Home and Fashion Country and City Women Answer Flood Appeal

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 17

As soon as news of the disastrous flooding of the Hunter Valley and the north-west towns of New South Wales came through last week, the women of Sydney and countrywomen in centres not affected rallied to send help to the victims. A radio appeal on…

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POULTRY May Farms Feared Lost In Hunter Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 32

It is believed that a number off poultry farms in the Hunter Valley area have been completely wiped out by floods, although no detailed information is available yet. We have not a great…

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Soccer Voetbalwedstrijd voor "Flood Relief"

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 8

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Montefiore Home Offers Help For Flood Victims W. L. Brand Advocates Co-ordination of Outdoor-Relief

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 7

“The Board of the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home have decided to place at the disposal of the State Government the resources of the Home and to make temporary accommodation…

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Our Duty Towards Flood Victims

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 1

This week the story of death, destruction, devastation and disaster was unfolded as six of…

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N.A.J.E.X Opens Flood Relief Fund Community Urged to Support

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 1

The Association of Ex-Servicemen and Women have opened a Flood Relief Fund for the victims of the present floods, now sweeping the low lying areas of the State…

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Assistance For Flood Victims

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 9 March 1955 · page 4

A public meeting will be held in the Guildford School of Arts tonight (Wednesday, March 9) at…

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R.L Opens Flood Appeal

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 9 March 1955 · page 2

Parramatta Rugby League Club will launch an appeal to aid flood victims, the president, Mr…

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