Storm Damage at Molong
MOLONG, Monday.—TWO violent storms within 24 hours have disrupted services and done extensive damage in the town…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Cement Pipe Struck By Lightning During Storm
The roof of an East Maitland home was showered with fragments of a concrete sewerage pipe, about 45 feet high, which was struck by lightning during a fierce thunderstorm last night…
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Unlike Sydney, where monster crowds thronged the city's streets and entertainments to welcome in the New Year, Singleton acknowledged the entry of 1950 with only a few desultory whistles from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Mid-west of United States
CHICAGO, Jan. 9—Some of the worst floods in ten yews left hundreds of families homeless in two-Mid-Western States…
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An old resident of Maitland james Copeland Tulloch who for very many years welcomed the New Year with an old bullock bell has…
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TAMWORTH, Monday. — Several houses were wrecked in a tornado, which struck part of North Tamworth residential area…
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The electricals storm which broke over Maitland early on Saturday night yielded about half an inch of rain…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 9.— Large areas of the middle west are threatened by floods and regular army troops have been brought…
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Fort stephons Shire Council, at its meeting yesterday, decided to make further application to the New South Wales Government…
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Police assessed the damage done by the storm at Tamworth on Saturday at £50,0000 to £60,000, states the Minister…
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The Flood Relief Committee in Sydney has granted Maitland City Council £1600 towards meeting the cost of removing flood debris from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warm to Hot, Thunderstorms
NSW Forecast: Fine In most of the state during the period. Warm to hot, increased grass and bushfire hazard in western and…
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Reporting on the recent inspection of the Hood erosion, at the swimming pool by an officer of the Water Conservation and Soil Erosion…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →27 Die in U.S. Gales, Cold, Floods
Gales, floods, and bitter cold killed at least 27 people in the United States yesterday…
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N.S.W. FORECAST—Heavy rain In north-cast quarter of state, with strong to ga[?] north-east to southeast winds and very rough [?]…
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Because it is the experience of police authorities that the most satisfactory means of rendering assistance in flooded areas is by use of…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Torrential rain, caused by a cyclonic disturbance of the lower Queensland cos[?], may Wood Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →City Health Officer Says: Flood Left 6000 Tons of Refuse in Its Wake
Six thousand tons of refuse left fey the deeding June flood had been disposed of under the supervision of City Council’s health department, the chief health officer (Mr. J. Toylor) said test night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Rain Spoils Morning Gallops Randwick Closed and Only Three Tracks Open
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Heavy rain this morning caused the abandoning of track work on the majority of race courses, Rosehill, Moorefield end Ascot went the only tracks open for work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Narrow Escapes in Storm
SYDNEY, Thursday,— Many people In Sydney had narrow escapes from injury during last night’s storm…
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