Flood Relief Appeal at Merriwa
With commendable promptness the President of the Merriwa Shire (Cr. T. J. Houlahan) has opened an appeal fund for the relief of those affected…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Singleton Flood Pictures
John Street, looking South from Dunnolly Bridge. George Street, looking North from Campbell Street. TOP: Cambridge Street, from George Street to St. Patrick's Church, showing abandoned truck on roadway…
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Scone and district C.W.A. and Scone Rotary Club is making an urgent appeal for clothing and cash to give…
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Mr. Colin Chapman and party of artists from Newcastle entertained the people camped at the CWA Hall and at Greta camp this…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, told a meeting of Federal Parliamentary Labour Party Caucus yesterday that the Federal Government may Increase Its cash grant to help the New South Wales flood victims…
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YESTERDAY we mentioned the farmer who, having lost everything, was patiently preparing for the day when he could again call upon his land to produce. The cold winds of winter are but harbingers of [?]apring. And with the spring the rich lands of our valley will come…
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“Oh, look at ail the hyacinth ! I wonder if it grows there,” a woman said quite seriously on Sunday morning when she saw…
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It was a very thoughtful act on the part of whoever was responsible for the placing of about 20 tons of coal on the vacant…
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A check of flood heights at Campbell’s Hill by Mr. Silas King, at his blacksmith’s shop, at the western end of the Long…
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Forms made available by the State Flood Relief Committee were available from the Town Hall at 10 o’clock this morning, and up to an early hour this afternoon there had been a steady flow of applicants…
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CESSNOCK: More than £1000 has been raised in Cessnock to provide relief for flood victims. More than £500 has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Footballers Rally For Flood Relief Knock-out Competition at Muswellbrook
Two Singleton football teams will pay in an Upper Hunter Rugby League Knockout competition organised by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods Delay Court Cases
Flood dislocated road and rail communications and caused the adjournment of two cases sheduled to be heard at Singleton…
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About the time the bridge over the Cockfighter Creek at Warkworth was washed away in the recent flood, three people lay seriously ill in the village. One was an infant suffering from pneumonia,…
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A major agricultural disaster of the flood had been the loss of thousands of acres of lucerne between Maitland and the coast, the District Agrono mist (Mr. Dawson) said after an inspection of the flooded a rea…
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Headed by Senator S. K. Armour, the Commonwealth and State Governments' Flood Relief Committee this afternoon…
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At a meeting of the Rotary Club held on Thursday night it was decided that the Club sponsor an appeal, to be known, as…
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From all centres throughout the State—including Singleton—aid is being rushed to flood stricken Maitland,…
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Sir,—As a visitor, stranded temporarily in Singleton during the recent flood, may l express my admiration for the manner…
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During the last few days many Dungog people have trekked to Maitland to "view the flood." One group of nine (including a 22-stoner) went…
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