Hunter River Flood Prevention. Report of the Public Works Committee
We continue the report of the Public Works Committee into tge matter of mitigation of floods in the Hunter. MK. GORDON'S SCHEME…
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Floods & storms, 1903
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Hunter River Flood Prevention
We continue the report of the Public Works Committee into the matter of mitigation of floods in the Hunter. BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF FLOODS…
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Floods at Chifu have destroyed many houses and swept the bridges away. Seven hundred persons were drowned and 2000 are starving…
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Mr. Shaw made application on be half of S. Whitehead, of the Australian Inn, Aberdeen, for a booth license for races at Lower Rouchel on…
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SEN.-SERGT. COADY v. JOHN D'ARCY. DEFENDANT was charged with consigning a diseased animal (a white cow) for sale at the Scone sale yards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court (Before Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M. W. F. Parker Dr. H. J. H. Scott, J'S P.
George Eland proceeded against J F. Poyating to recover the sum of £1 6s, alleged over-charge paid under protest. Mr. J. A. K. Shaw appeared…
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Colonel Lovering was much surprised when Larry failed to keep his appointment and when he did not put in an appearance during the…
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The report of the Parliamentary Committee on Public Works, publication of which we have completed this week, ends for a time the history of effort to mitigate the dire effects of…
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Sir,—In view of the proposed methods of mitigating floods in the Hunter, the experience of a much travelled Canadian will be of interest. The gentleman, Mr. Dewper, is travelling in the interest of an…
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The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, appointed during the first session of the present Parliament, under the Public Works Act of 1900, 64 Vic. No. 26, to…
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A destructive hailstorm occurred in the canton of [?]hwiz, Switzerland, yesterday. Thousands of trees were uprooted and their fruit destroyed. Hailstones he size of hazel nuts lay six inches deep on the…
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SIR,—If anybody wanted an evidence of the incapacity of the Public Works Committee to deal with matters brought before them, they need not go farther than their report on the above subject for it…
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There were 60 fatalities in Jamaica, and the damage to property is estimated at three millions sterling…
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Heavy rains are raging throughout the southern districts of Opunake. The Eltham coach, when crossing the Mangawhero River, was washed away, the driver and two horses downed, and [?]…
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We continue the report of the Public Works Committee into the matter' of mitigation of floods in the Hunter. MR. GORDON'S SCHEME. 7. Mr. Gordon, in his scheme, recommends…
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HEAVY storms are raging throughout the southern districts. The Opunake and Eltham coach, when crossing the Mangawbere River,…
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We continue the report of the Public Works Committee into the matter of mitigation of floods in the Hunter. ' BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF FLOODS…
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A cyclone has devastated the Grand Cayman, an island in the West Indies, near Jamaica. Crops have been destroyed, and the loss is estimated at £20,000 sterling…
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A cyclone has devastated Grand Cayman, British West Indies, and destroyed the crops. The damage done is estimated at £20,000…
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Distressing reports are coming to hand of the damage done by a storm which swept over the cornfields of England during the past 36 hours. Over 2 inches of rain fell in 24…
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