Early Morning Electrical Storm
SYDNEY, Wednesday. A violent lent electrical storm a weekend thousands from their sleep early this morning , flattened many…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Students Lost Study In Flood And Strike
Many students lost four or five weeks during the year because the disastrous flood, and the coal strike which followed, the…
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Suggestion by Lower Hunter Shire Council that the Minister for Local Government be again urged to decide liability of councils :for future control and maintenance Wollis Creek floodgates was agreed to last night by…
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Something definite appears to be coming at a result of active agitation for flood relief measures it was stated at a meeting…
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Although the June flood caused much damage to property and some farms, the hospital farm was improved by the flood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain in Maitland Last Night
Thunder claps and vivid [?] of lightning accompanied a [?] which began in Maitland abc[?] o’clock last night…
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Maitland experienced a series of thunderstorms this morning Starting at 4.30, they continued until 11.30. Rain at times was heavy. Most parts of the Hunter, Paterson and Williams…
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SINGLETON, Tuesday.—Farmers had to milk by hand this morning and all Important industries such as the dairy company and sawmills…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Warnings by Radio Telephone Maitland Included In Suggested Vital Links
Police have formulated a scheme whereby Maitland district will be included in a network of radio-telephone system which would enable the despatch of flood warning Newcastle superintendent of police (Mr. Wiley) has…
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At the December meeting of the Fort Stephens Shire Council, the following letter was forwarded by Mr. R. L. Fitzgerad, M. L.A., from the Minister for…
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A meeting was called on Friday night last for the purpose of hearing a report from Gen. J. D. Richardson on the proposed scheme for flood mitigation on the Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Warnings by Radio Telephone Maitland Included in Suggested Vital links
Police have formulated a scheme whereby Maitland district will be included in a network of radio, telephone system which would…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Isle of Cyprus
NICOSIA (Cyprus) Dec. 23 (AAP).—Floods following live days’ torrential rain paused the loss of at least 20 Iives and much…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letter To The Editor Flood Relief
Sir,—As one greatly interested in flood relief measures affecting the South Maitland area I have been following with interest the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russian Experts Flooding China Reported Plans For Invasion of Formosa
HONG KONG, December 29—Russian military and technical advisers were arriving in china by the hundreds according to a Chinese Journalist, who spent eight months under Communist rule in Nanking…
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The Minister for the Department of Local Government (Mr Cahill) advised lower Hunter Shire Council yesterday that his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Warnings by Radio-telephone. Station At Muswellbrook
Police have formulated a scheme whereby Maitland district will be included in a network of radio-telephone system which would enable the…
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