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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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The report by Mr. C. Napler Bell, M. Inst. C.E., upon flood prevention in the Hunter River, was presented to Parliament last night. It is a long document, and refers in detail to the various schemes by other engineers and departmental officers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Assembly on Tuesday night, Mr Gillies said he wished to have a word with the Minister for Works. It was now five weeks since the report of Mr Napier Bell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The burden of proving the need for an effective method of dealing with flood in the Hunter is not a burden to be borne by present day public writers and public men. Long ago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The report by Mr. C. Napier Bell, M. Inst. C. E., upon flood prevention in the Hunter River, was presented to Parliament on Wednesday. It is a long document, and refers in detail to the various schemes by other engineers and departmental officers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE report of Mr. C. Napier Bell, who was asked by the Government to inquire into the cause and probable remedies of the Hunter River floods…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To the Honorable the Minister for Public Works,- Sir,—Acting under your instructions, I arrived at Sydney on the night of 21st March, and at once proceeded to read and make notes from the great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In 1897 the late Mr. Price, C.E., having carefully inspected the whole district of tho Hunter and its tributaries, found a site 9 miles below Denman which he considered suitable for a dam for an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy weather prevails along the coast. There is every appearance of the flood at Cape Hawke, where five and a half inches of rain have fallen during the past twenty-four hours. Rain is falling in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Observation of this kind are not accurate, and may be misleading. The only way to get accurate knowledge of the floods in their courses in to have stations every 4 or 5 miles along the river,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hunter Valley participated in the heavy coastal rain which, fell on Tuesday night and yesterday. During that Fine Singleton received 100 points, Stroud 547,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Criticism of Mr. Napier Bell's scheme for dealing with floods in the Hunter is superfluous so long as the mind of the Minister on the report remains undeclared. If the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This shows that the crooked channel from Maitland to Morpeth is not the vehicle of a high flood, and therefore calculations of the flood discharge made from the sections of the river channel are wrong. On the country, the centre…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Criticism of Mr. Napier Bell's scheme for dealing with floods in the Hunter is superfluous so long as the mind of the Minister on the report remains undeclared. If the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,âActing under your instructions, I arrived at Sydney on the night of 21st March, and at once proceeded to read and make notes from the great mass of documents which, during the last thirty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The report by Mr. C. Napier Bell, M. Inst. C.E., upon flood prevention in the Hunter River, was presented to Parliament last week. It is a long…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FOLLOWING up the remarks made in this column on Monday, anent the flood mitigation scheme propounded by Mr Bell, it may be urged that his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Contrary to the prognostinations of the weather prophets, rain again commenced to fall on Thursday night and continued intermittingly yesterday, some very heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.— Having carefully studied the report of the expert engineer, Mr. Bell, in your supplement of Saturday last, I regret, that in my opinion at least, it appears to have failed to supply the much…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy rain fell throughcutthe night. A portion of Marrickville known as Tramval is entirely covered with water this morning. A strong southerly gale is reported along the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous floods have occurred at Santiago, the capital of Chili. A train while crossing a bridge fell into a river and 50 persons were drowned…
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