Floodboats for Shire
Lowers Hunter Shire Council decided at its meeting yesterday to purchase two [?] floodboats for the Miller’s Forest area. The…
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Floods & storms, 1947
274 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 14
Big Fields At Mentone And Canterbury Moderate Horses Flood Restricted And Maiden Events
Moderates of the racing world are so numerous on metropolitan tracks that astronomical figures are observed in nominations for Restricted races in Sydney-and Melbourne. Every Six Furlongs Mixed Stakes presented by the…
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KIAMA, Wed.—A gale on the coast did much, damage locally, several, buildings were shifted and at Omega, near Kiama, a…
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NEW YORK, July 16.— It is unlikely that any members of the U. S. Day’s Cup team will be banned from amateur ranks as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in Victoria Rain Continues
MELBOURNE, Wed.— Thnusand [?] and street, the floded western district towns of Harrow and Casterton ward still…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Fears in Victoria Thousands of Acres Inundated
Thousands of acres of land between the flooded western district towns of Harrow and Casterton (Victoria were still under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wallalong Flood Boat
In regard to Wallalong floodboat the Engineer at the last meeting of the Port Stephens Shire Council said the boat was out in the open and if repaired…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truman Moves To End Floods
WASHINGTON, July 17. — President Truman yesterday asked Congress to launch a tenyear programme to ,end the…
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SINGLETON, Friday.— Muswellbrook Municipal Council is to be told that whilst the Patrick Plains Shire Council appreciates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Support for Conference on Flood Mitigation Report Divided Report of Committee Not Available
Letters from three different councils have been received by Patrick Plains Shire Council with reference to seeking a conference of councils…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Frosts Follow Floods in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Sat. — Flood waters in north west and south west Victoria have subsided considerably. Seven frosts and low…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.— Three New Zealand racehorses were pattered to death in violent storms in the Tasman Sea…
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Three New Zealand racehorses were battered to death during violent storms in the Tasman Sea. Horses which had good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Kept Like Animal in Small Shed Salvation Army Flooded With Offers Of Help
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— The Salvation Army has been flooded by offers to help or adopt the neglected seven-year-old boy who was kept like an animal in a small backyard shed…
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As there is only a limited number of copies of the Hunter River Flood Mitigation Committee’s report available, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rumours Still Flood Berlin
BERLIN (Associated Press). Many thousands of Berliners, having survived a savage winter, are experiencing chills eevn…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Morpeth Flood Boats
Following a complaint by Morpeth Progress Association that the flood[?] in the shed near the Howthorne Factory were in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →70 Mile an Hour Gale in Melbourne
MELBOURNE, Tues.— Telephone and [?] were located and city and [?] buildings damaged by a [?] mile an hour gate…
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NEW DELHI, August 9.—Floods and famine are now adding to the misery caused in India by communal strife, which, on latest unofficial reports, killed 19 more people and injured many others…
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WASHINGTON (Associated Press). — United States Army engineers have drawn up plans to keep floods from sweeping over…
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