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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1930

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Flood Damage in the Shire Additional Grant of £500

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 August 1930 · page 5

Mr W. Cameron, M.L.A., has received the following communication from the Under-Secretary of the Department of Local…

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Hook's Fate. Body Carried by Flood. Government's Efforts. Rangoon, Aug. 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 August 1930 · page 7

James Matthews, who escaped form the Burma jungle when he and Erie Hoow crashed, is limping though he is otherwise fit…

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Flood Damage. Grant for Singleton District

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 August 1930 · page 8

Mr. W. Camoron, M.L.A., has received a communication from the Under-Secretary of the Department of Local Government to the effect…

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Flood Prevention. Lower Hunter Primary Producers. Shortening the River

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 August 1930 · page 2

The flood mitigation problem was discussed at, meeting of the Lower Hunter Primary Producers' Union, held at Raymond Terrace…

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Port Stephens Meeting of Shire. Flood Damage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 3

A good deal of the time of the Port Stephens Shire was taken up in discussing questions arising out of the recent floods in portion of the…

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£200,000. for Flood Prevention. Mr. O'hhatin Questions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 August 1930 · page 5

At Hinton last night, Mr, O'Hearn, M.L.A., was asked If he could inform them whether any big grants were to be made for the Hunter district from…

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Fishing Boats in Gale Loss of Life. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Capetown

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 August 1930 · page 1

Fishing boats were caught in a heavy gale off East London last night. Three were wrecked, and 14 coloured fishermen were drowned…

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Seventy Miles. Gale Rages at Newcastle. NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 August 1930 · page 7

A strong westerlay gale raged last night and to-day, with a few showers and a heavy haze of dust, Some squalls reached 70 miles an hour,…

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Flew Blind. Big Plane in Storm. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 August 1930 · page 7

While on the flight from Melbourne to Sydney to-day, the Australian National Aairways mail plane struck a storm near Rose[?]…

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Unlucky Naples. Swept by Cyclone. Four Killed: Seventy Injured. Naples, Aug. 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 August 1930 · page 4

Disaster again befel Naples ,when a viclont cyclone struck the city. killing four and injuring 70…

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Cyclone in Naples Loss of Life (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Naples

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 August 1930 · page 8

A disaster again befel Naples when a violent cyclone struck the city, killing four and iujnring 70. The full force of the cyclone struck…

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Bridge Swept Away in Storm Glasgow Rangers Football Team Has Narrow Escape

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 August 1930 · page 2

How the entire Glasgow, Rangers football team escaped being drowned by the narrowest of margins was revealed when they returned to Southampton…

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Hunter Flood Relief

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 August 1930 · page 4

Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following letter from the Public Works Department; "Referring to your personal…

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Flood Mitigation. Deputation to Minister. Reply Not Encouraging. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 August 1930 · page 5

A deputation, comprising representatives from East mid West Maitland Municipal Councils, and Bolwarra, Tarro, and Kearsley Shires,…

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St. Paul's Church. Damage by Flood. Restoration Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 2

St. Paul's Church, West Maitland, sustained severe damage in the recent flood, but the building was repaired, largely by voluntary labour of…

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Flood Prevention

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 4

Mr. W, F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., will address a meeting of railway men this evening, at 6 o'clock, outside Church-street station. He will also…

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Flood Mitigation. Protecting Town of Maitland. Mr. Vowell's Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 4

Mr. R. Vowell, Director of Public Works, who accompanied the State Treasurer, Mr. Stevens, and the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Thorby, to Maitland, shortly after the recent flood, has submitted to the Acting Premier,…

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Letter to the Editor Flood Mitigation—louth Park Drainage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 2

Sir,—At the meeting at Town Hall on Friday last, Alderman Pilgrim suggested that the Government be approached and asked to proceed with…

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Flood Mitigation

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 1

A deputation, comprising representatives from East and West Maitland Municipal Councils, and Bolwarra, Tarro, and Kearsley Shires, waited upon the…

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Channel Disaster. Yacht Founders in Storm. Six Drowned. London. Aug. 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 1

In the worst Channel gale since November, the eight-ton auxiliary, yacht Islander broke up in furious [?] off St. Austell to-day. All on…

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