Flood Damage Estimates Reduced By Half Departmental Figure of £11,931 Compares With Council’s £22,326
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 2
Maitland City Council’s estimate of £22,326 for damage caused in the disastrous June flood has been slashed by half as the result of the visit of investigating officials of the Department of Works and Local Government…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 2
At a combined meeting of representatives of the Paterson Show Council, the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council and the…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—To-day’s Randwick race meeting has been postponed until to-morrow, following the flooding of a section of the track during the night. The police have been called in to investigate what is…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 2
Amount previously, acknowledged, £164/0/8. staff of Electricity Supply Dept. Maitland City Council, £18/10/6. Total,…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 2
The chairman of the Flood Relief Committee (Mr. C. J. Beflemore) has announced that the committee has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock for Kempsey Flood Victims. District Appeal to Be Launched
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 1
The Upper Hunter P. and A. Association, Deman R. S. League, Denman P.P.U. and M.Z.D.C. branches have called a public meeting to be held at…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 6
A photographic record of the Kempsey flood will be issued next week and copies may be ordered through local agents or…
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Singleton Argus · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 4
Maitland City Council, without discussion, accepted an offer by the Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Cahill)…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 4
The current issue of the RSL monthly “Reville,” has some comment in an editorial on the unwillingness of the Commonwealth…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 2
QUIRINDI, Monday.—A cow donated to and sold for the Kempsey flood relief fund at the Quirindi saleyards realised £18/[?]…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 2
If no notice is taken of an application through two local State members to the Government for the provision of two motor boats…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 12 October 1949 · page 3
The Commonwealth and State Governments had agreed to give another 140,000 for flood relief at Kempsey and other northern districts, the…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 October 1949 · page 1
N.S.W FORECAST: Scattered rain and thunderstorms mainly in the eastern half of the state but scattered showers with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Council To-renew Claim for Flood Grant
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 October 1949 · page 3
Lower Hunter Shire Council is to. drop a reminder-to the Minister for Works and Local. Government over representation made in July for…
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Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 4
At the meeting on Friday afternoon last one applicant was in for flood relief from Medowie. It was decided that an inspection should be made as to the bonafides of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Waters Will Not Clear by End of Year Conference Called To Urge Canal To River
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 1
At the slow rate at which flood waters are draining away from South Maitland area it will take until the end of the year…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 2
At a meeting at Denman on Tuesday last, a committee was formed to assist in the relief of the victims of the Macleay River floods. The mesting…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 5
Rotarians in the 32 District, of which Muswellbrook forms part, contributed £368 to the Kempsey [?] relief appeal up till the 10th inst…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 4
Messrs. S. I. Parish and R. Pryke were last night chosen to represent the Hunter Agricultural and Horticultural Association…
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Singleton Argus · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 5
Owners of shops in lowlying parts of Inverell last night prepared to clear goods from their premises in case…
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