Flood Relief Union
Mr. EDITOR.—Tn anticipation of your allowing me a small space in your valuable paper. I will take advantage of your generosity and lay before the many farmers of the Clarence…
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Floods & storms, 1893
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AGRICULATURIST & GRAZIER. The floods and the Cane
THE floods of 1893 will be long remembered by the Clarence cane-growers. In no former instance was the destruction to cane so great as with the highest flood of this year. With…
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In a service at St. Paul's Church. West Maitland, on Sunday last, his Lordship took for the text the words in Ps. [?]xix, 15: "Let not the waterftood overflow me, neither let…
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THE letter of W. D. COWLEY, which appeared in one last issue, suggesting the establishment of a Flood Relief Union, originates a subject which should demand…
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MR. W. E. ABBOTT thus writes respecting it scheme for minimising flood damage on the Hunter. A correspondent " Onward" asserts that a straight channel could be made for…
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MR. EDITOR.—Although the schemes proposed by Messrs. M'Farlane and See are not of so much importance as each gentleman appears to imagine, it is possible that great…
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MR. EDITOR.—Observing that Mr. Maclean has been instructed to make a survey of Mr. M'Farlane's flood prevention fad, I enter my humble protest against such a waste of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[ESTABLISHED 1859.] the Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Saturday Morning, April 20Th, 1893. Flood Prevention
THE question of flood prevention, or more properly speaking, the question of how best to lessen the risk of damage by floods, stands in considerable danger of departing from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(ESTABLISHED 1859. the Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton. Tuesdays and Saturdays. Tuesday Morning, May 2Nd, 1893. Flood, and the Protection of the River Banks, Mr. H. V. Haynes' Intersting Paper
IT is gratifying to find that more than passing interest is being shown in the matter of dealing with the question of floods, and the protection of the banks of rivers. When…
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THE scheme propounded by Mr. Haynes, Civil Engineer and Licensed Surveyor, of Trenayr, is to systematically relieve the banks of any river, that it is desirable to…
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Mr. EDITOR—There is an old proverb that "Many men have many minds," but it does not always follow that because a man is a professional, he has a wise mind. The scheme of Mr. Valentine Haynes re the prevention of…
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Mr. EDITOR—The notice accorded to my drainage scheme in your issue of 2nd instant, although favourable in all other respects, reserves one doubtful point as follows: "The…
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MR. EDITOR.—Mr. Valentine Haynes has deluged us with an avalanch of figures about the columns and weight of water. A familiar acquaintance with the problems of euclid…
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"FILL her up with water—there's no help for it" was the decision arrived at on the burning ship Port Jackson. This was after the half dozen or more fire steamers had been…
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Mr. EDITOR.—Will you grant me space to ventilate a scheme for the prevention of flood damage to the river banks and surrounding country. To my [?] there are two points…
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MR. EDITOR.—The deputation appointed at a late public meeting, to meet the Trustees of the Swam Creek flood refuge, did so at Mr. [?] It was resolved that the…
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THE year 1893 will be long remembered by Clarence residents, as in it three high and disastrous floods have to be reminded in the district's history. The spell of fine weather…
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FROM all sides come reports of the great damage caused by the flood to the river and creek banks. Places damaged by previous floods, and where no attempt to check the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FLOODS In Relation to Administrative Neglect 1893 the Year of Floods. Minimising Flood Damage
WITHOUT waiting for further developments in like direction, the year 1893 has gained for itself the title of "flood year," or "year of floods." The latest of "those visitations"…
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SYDNEY, MONDAY.—Heavy rains have fallen in the Hunter River district, and it is feared there will be a serious flood. The residents of East Maitland yesterday were…
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