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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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LONDON, February 7.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) has established a special Cabinet committee on food, says the Press Association, consisting of himself, the Food Minister (Sir Ben Smith), the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Tom Williams) and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An appeal is being launched by the Scone Boys and Girls' Club with a view to flood-lighting Scone Park. Recently Scone Municipal Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, February 9. — The worst flooding for 30 years, after several days rain and gales, caused serious damage, particularly in the Midlands and North Wales. Many main roads are impassable and the lower floors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SINGLETON Monday—Heavy rain was experienced at Singleton on Saturday, 134 points being registered Many towns in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The whole of the London, Midland and Scottish railway service to Scotland and Lancashire was blocked as the result of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storms which passed over Singleton, during Saturday afternoon yielded 134 points of rain, this registration being made at the local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The worst floodings for 30 years, after several days rain and gales, caused serious damage, particularly in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GELSENKIRCHEN February 13.—Three thousand villagers were rendered homeless when the Em[?]cher river, tributary of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON February 12.— The worst flood that have hit Germany in a century are causing catastrophic results, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Feb. 15,-The worst floods in north-west Germany for 100 years destroyed the entire winter crops…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To those citizens who have already contributed to this appeal, the sincere thanks of the Boys' and Girls' Club are hereby conveyed; to those…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY Tues. — Riverina areas are now experiencing a strong southerly change, which brought heavy rain to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The heaviest damage from weather suffered in years has been caused in Melbourne by a deluge of rain which has been incessant since a cyclonic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The heaviest damage from weather suffered in years has been caused in Melbourne by deluge rain which has been [?] since a cyclonic storm swept the city last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The heaviest damage from weathe suffered in years has been caused in Melbourne by a deluge of rain, which has been incessant since a cyclonic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE Wed.—As the river levels in the Yarra and its tributaries fell to-day many families, who were flooded out in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Monday.—The worst cyclonic floods in Queensland’s history have left a trail of devastation and desolation along some 450 miles of coastline between Mackay and Cairns…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday.—Great waves of water are continuing to rush down the Burdekin watershed to its confluence with other rivers at Sellheim, and fears are increasing floods, which are already conceded to be the worst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great waves of water—now over 80 feet—are continuing to rush down the Burdekin River watershed, in Northern Queensland, to its confluence with other rivers at Sellheim, and fears are increasing that the floods,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Although flood waters are still menacing Home Hill and Ayr, incomplete reports reaching Brisbane suggest that the floods appear to be receding slightly, and it is not impossible that both towns have survived the danger mark…
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