Appeal For Flood Victims
The Mayor is making an appeal for donations to aid the flood victims of Maitland and other centres. Either cash or clothing, etc., will be welcome, and…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Flood Victims Local Appeal For
An appeal has been launched by the Mayor, (Aid W. Riddiford) for local assistance in the form of donations of either cash or…
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London July 1.—While their wives stood anxiously at he pithead watching a desperate battle between an improvised winch and rising waters five…
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London, June 31.—A wall of water seven feet high at Dean Pitt, Gloucestershire, today trapped 178 miners 400 feet underground. All were rescued; but five of them had to struggle four miles through…
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New York, July 5.—A sudden violent storm, with gade winds up to 58 m.p.h. lashed the New York area last evening killing at least six persons and…
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A quantity of clothing and a lew donations in cash have been received at the Town Hallion behalf of the victims of the recent floods…
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Sydney, July 6. — The secretary of the Western District of the Miners Federation (Mr. John H. King) was today sentenced to a month's gaol by Chief Judge Kelly of the Arbitration Court for refusing to say what he had done with £4,500 drawn from the bank on June…
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Response of citizens to the appeal for clothing for the Maitland Hood victims has been excellent and some good quality articles…
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Manila, July 11.—Ten people were killed, countless homes, were wrecked, and ships were battered by a storm with winds up to 60…
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Shanghai, July ll.—Nearly a million acres of cultivated farmland have been submerged by floods in die lower Yangtse valley and other parts of Central China…
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London, July 17.—Two boys and two men were killed and many Injured in violent thunderstorms accompanied by torrential rain which swept Southern…
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Hongkong, July 19. — Fifty-seven thousand people have been drowned and five million others rendered homeless in Hunan province, China's "ricebowl," by the recent floods…
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Brisbane.—A freak storm at Toowoomba in a lew minutes caused thousands of pounds of damage, wrecking five houses…
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Sydney, July 21.—Sixteen hundred homes were completely [?]ndated 10,000 people were forced to leave thier homes, and between £1 million and 5…
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A good quantity of clothing has been received at the Town Hall in response to the appeal on behalf of the Maitland flood victims…
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Sydney.—Maitland, where floods caused untold suffering and damage last month, is again threatened by floods. The swollen Hunter River at ll o'clock today…
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The following cash donations have been received by the Mayor for the Maitland Flood Relief Appeal: —Alderman W. Riddiford…
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Sydney.—The Hunter [?] broke through at Oakhampton early this afternoon and [?] flooding south Maitland [?]…
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Sydney, July 26.—For the second time within a period of six weeks residents of South Maitland are evacuating homes at the threat of…
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Sydney.—Flood waters from the upper reaches of the Hunter River are expected to reach Maitland this afternoon. Hundreds of families have already evacuated the low-lying districts round the town…
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