Flood Prevention League
A meeting of the General Council of the Hunter River District Flood Prevention League was held at the School of Arts on Thursday afternoon. There were present Mr. G. Vindin…
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Floods & storms, 1870
194 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 10
Flood Prevention. Proposed Canal Shortenings
An article in the Town and Country Journal of Saturday last has attracted considerable attention in West Maitland, and perhaps elsewhere within the flood limits on the Hunter. It is…
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A meeting of the General Council of the Floods Prevention League was held at the School of Arts, on Tuesday afternoon Present —Mr. G. Vindin (President) in the chair,…
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The floods of the present year bare exceeded in their magnitude, in the extent of country over which they prevailed, and in the amouut of damage done by them, all previous similar visitations of…
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Yesterday afternoon a meeting was held in the Borough Council Chambers, Morpeth School of Arts, to take into consideration the advisability of calling a public meeting to appoint a…
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The General Council of this League held a meeting at the School of Arts yesterday afternoon. Present: Mr. G. Vindin (president) in the chair, the Revs. G. Hurst, J. R. Thackeray,…
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SIR—Will you give me space in yonr valuable paper to lay before the public my plan, for what it is worth, to free Maitland and the Lower Hunter of its inundations at times of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods—landlords and Tenants. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR—There has been much talk about flood-prevention, or, more properly speaking, the mitigation of the effects of floods, in the Hunter district. Whether there will be anything…
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A preliminary meeting was held at East Maitland,[?] yesterday afternoon, presided over by the Mayor of the Borough, to make arrangements for holding a public meeting to consider the…
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A meeting of ratepayers in the area lately annexed to the East Maitland municipality, was held at Mr. Lonsdale's [?], Louth Park Road, yesterday afternoon, for the discussion of business of importance About twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. Flood Prevention. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mecury.)
Sir—Many schemes and suggestions have from time to time appeared in the various journals as to the best means of preventing floods in the Hunter River district. At the risk of coming…
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A meeting of the General Council of the Floods Prevention League was held at the School of Arts, yesterday. Present: The Revs. Dr. Murray, J. Benvie, J. R. Thackeray;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in India. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The floods experienced in New South Wales, severe as they have been during the last year, are fully paralleled by similar phenomena that occur in India. In that country the rainfall…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, July 2, 1870. Hunter River Floods Prevention League. Meeting at East Maitland
On Thursday evening a meeting of tha inhabitants of the electorate of East Maitland, convened by the Mayor, at the request of the Floods Prevention League, was held at the…
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The executive committee of the General Flood Relief Fund met in Sydney on Wednesday, when a report of the Hawkesbury Flood Relief Committee was read, as follows:—…
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A meeting of the General Council of the Hunter River District Floods Prevention League was held at the School of Arts, on Thursday afternoon. Present—The President (Mr. G…
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On Saturday evening a meeting was held in Mr. Blueford's Inn, Largs, of persons willing to cooperate with the Floods Prevention League in the objects for which it has been established…
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Now that we on the coast districts appear to be escaping any further floods, the far interior and southern portions of the colony, are suffering from floods. We take the following extracts…
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Some time ago, it may be remembered, we recorded the fact that the owners of land on the river bank in West Maitland bad held a meeting, and appointed a committee of their number, to…
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Mr. Parnell then called attention of the meeting to a letter he had received from the General Secretary of the Flood Prevention League, West Maitland, soliciting his…
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