Maitland Flood Victims Public Responds Well
The Municipal Council truck, which made the trip to Maitland last. Tuesday with a load of urgently needed food and clothing for flood victims,…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Flood Damage “Act of God”
NEWCASTLE: Insurance agents said that owners of houses and furniture damaged in the Hunter River flood will receive…
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The Mayor (Aid. Fahey) has received the following letter from Alderman H. T. Skitton, vice-chairman of the Council’s…
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The marriage of a second-year Maitland Hospital nurse to a Maitland man, which had been planned for St. Peter’s Church,…
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Miners’ lodges on the South Maitland coalfield are making donations to flood relief. Each lodge which has met since the…
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NEWCASTLE: Toronto has formed a committee to raise funds to assist the Lord Mayor’s flood relief appeal…
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SINGLETON, Monday.—The Returned Soldiers’ league decided to ask the Mayor (Aid. J. McGrogan) and Shire President (Cr. A. F…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hundreds Came To See The Flood Damage Yesterday Was Sight-Seeing And Cleaning-up Day
Maitland was over-faxed yesterday with hundreds of camera-clicking sightseers who came to view the aftermath of flood devastation. The traffic was well controlled by members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I’ve Got the Flood Scars - - and How (By a Staff Reporter)
Yesterday, for the first time in nine long days, I waded into my flood-submerged home. There the scars I had written about fast week were very pronounced on my once-treasured belongings. The tears from eyes of women…
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MORPETH:‘ The flood of June, 1949 will long be remembered by of Morpeth and surrounding districts as one of…
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One of Maitland’s oldest residents, 96-year-old Mr. Fred Full-lord was quite unharmed by his experienced during the flood. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EDITORIAL The Flood of ’49
FLOODS ore not new to this volley. They are as much a part of this district as is its lucerne and the magnificently fertile flats on which we live. If we look closely at the history of the near North Coast we will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: The Flood Of 49 Dave Sands’ Next Opponent
LONDON, June 27. — Dave Sands will meet Robert Ville-man, a leading French middleweight, is a 10-rounds’ fight at…
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Stockmen and buyers at Campbell’s Hill saleyards to-day gave £260 in 20 minutes to the Mayor’s Flood Appeal…
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Sightseers, who came to Maitland yesterday to look over flood devastation, assisted victims financially…
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Upper Hunter Rugby League Football organiser expects to raise approximately £200 for Hunter Valley Flood Relief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State R.S.L. Officials Inspect Flood Area
The State Returned Servicemen's League president and State General Secretary yesterday visited Singleton in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Generous to Flood Appear £1500 Received From All Sources
Despite the strike, miners' lodges in the Cessnock district have been generous with their donations to the apical for funds for flood [?] in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heard at Flooded Maitland
Dad, who was digging away in the old coal [?] trying to get a few coals to boil the copper to get some of the [?] lines free, says to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Muswellbrook Chronicle TUESDAY, 28th JUNE, 1949. the Flood. R.S.L. Convoy From Muswellbrook. Relief for Maitland Sufferers
A convoy of motor vehicles carried a large quantity of tinned food, cakes, clothing, footwear and blankets to Maitland on…
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