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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1929

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The Forecast. Further Rain and Thunder Storms. Meteorological Bureau

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 December 1929 · page 6

New South Wales: Generally warm to sultry, with further rain and thunder storms likely in the northern and…

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Island Hurricane. Savu Savu Damaged. Heavy Floods. Suva

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 December 1929 · page 7

The hurricane is centred cast of Suva, and is moving south-east, and it is probable that the Southern Lau group will be heavy sufferers…

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Disasters. Explosion: Rail Smash: Storm

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 5

A series of disasters abroad is marking the closing month of 1929. Following shipwrecks and accidents on land during the five days' storm in…

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France's Storm Loss. 71 Seamen Drowned. London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 5

France estimates that 71 seamen have been drowned during the present storm along her Channel and Atlantic coasts. Two people in the crowd at Dieppe,…

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All Eyes on Rothbury Free Laborers Arrive Cessnock Miners Travel to Storm Centre

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 5

On the strength, of a report received here this morning that the free labourers engaged by Mr. Weaver had arrived at Rothbury,…

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Flood Damage to Shire Roads. Further Grant of £200

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 2

Mr. H. C. Carter, M.L.A. for Liverpool Plains, is in receipt of the following letter, under date llth inst., following representations made for…

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THAMES FlOODS

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 5

Inland and particularly in the Thames Valley, floods are causing anxiety. Since Tuesday the Thames has risen nearly one foot at Molesley,…

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Gales and Floods South of England Swept. Shipping Suffers. LONDON, Dec. 9

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 2

For the fifth day the South of England was swept by gales and flooding rains. Gusts between 70 and 80 miles an hour were…

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Cyclonic Storm. Damage at Gundaroo

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 11

The Gundaroo district was visited by a terrific storm, tornado-like in its intensity. Wholesale destruction followed in its wake. Trees were…

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Nine Drowned. Damage by Cyclone. in Fiji Group. Suva

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 6

Reports are coming into Suva of death and widespread destruction by the cyclone which swept the Fiji group for several days…

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Battle Against Gale Australian League Team Defeated. Match. London Dec. 7

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 12

The Australian Rugby League team never faced worse conditions than at Workington, where the visitors lost their third match in…

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Epic Story. Rescues at Sea. Gale-battebed Steamers Paris. Dec. 9

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 2

A stirring story of a double rescue is told by officers of the French salvage tug Iroise, which put out to sea on December 5 to search for the…

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Many Lives Lost Worst Storm for Years. Trains and Shipping Stop. LONDON, Dec. 5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 12

Many lives were lost, and much damage done to property, by the worst storm for years, which swept over the country…

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Grant for Flood Damage

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 6

Mr. W. Cameron, M.L.A., who has made personal representations on behalf of Patrick Plains Shire Council for a special grant for expenditure…

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More Heavy Weather Expected. Floods Causing Anxiety. London, Dec. 10

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 2

A renewal of the southerly gales, en used by a very big depression approaching from the Atlantic, is according to the weather forecast…

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Suva Hurricane. Rivers in Flood. Suva, Dec. 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 3

A hurricane, with its centre north of Suva, is apparently travelling from Pavenul. which has probably received the brunt of the storm…

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Quiet at Rothbury. Calm After the Storm. Rothbury

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 5

All was quiet at Rothbury to-day. It was like the proverbial calm after a storm. As a procaution against any…

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Thames Floods. Water Rapidly Receding. London, Dec, 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 5

The floods in the Thamos Valley continued to recede rapidly to-day. There was a fall of over a foot in the river at Molesley Look during the last…

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Nine Drowned. Damage by Cyclone. in Fiji Group. Suva

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1929 · page 13

Reports are coming into Suva of death and widespread destruction by the cyclone which swept the Fiji group for several days…

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Floods in Fiji. Ships Ashore. Heavy Damage and Loss of Life. Suva, Dec. 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1929 · page 12

The auxiliary cutter Tui Cakau struck the Wakaya Reef and disappeared in a squall. It is feared that Mr. J. Henning the owner, and…

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