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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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At polling booths in the Maitland subdivision, where voting was postponed lost Saturday, doors will be open to-morrow, flood or no flood, the returning officer (Mr. Cooney) said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Little property damage has been reported, but the rain has swelled many northern rivers and many roads have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mayor of Maitland, Alderman A. S. McDonald, has suggested that to prevent future Maitland floods, a channel should be cut from Oakhampton to Morpeth to straighten out the course of the Hunter River…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck by the difficulties being experienced in the Maitland district by farmers whose supplies of fodder are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mayor of Maitland (Ald. A. S. McDonald) has suggested a way to prevent future Maitland floods. He said that a channel should be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. G. J. Korff, a Morpeth farmer, has lost an estimated £4,000 through Hoods within 12 months. His 40-acre mixed farm at Berry Park, about two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sat—Flood-stricken Kempsey and Lismore will be in greater peril later to-day when huge volumes of floodwaters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday. — The New South Wales and Federal Governments are likely to make a big grant to alleviate flood distress…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Splendid work by employees of Maitland City Council appears to have saved Maitland from a major disaster, when a tremendous volume of water in the Hunter River yesterday and last night threatened to break through at Oakhampton and at the back of business premises in High-street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Throughout the week-end anxious crowds watched the Hunter River at Dunolly Bridge, Singleton, and at the river end…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Monday.—A cloudburst caused heavy floods and a devastating fire at West Union, West Virginia, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An announcer on commercial radio station 2GF, Grafton, said last night that 70 per cent, of the town's 13,000 population…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although the river fell about three feet last night and today, the condition of the embankment at Oakhampton was still causing worry in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mayor (Alderman E. C. Humphries) has opened a subscription list for the relief of those people who have suffered distress as a result of the floods at Maitland and North Coast towns…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The C.W.A. invites citizens to forward gifts of clothing for the flood relief appeal to 124 Bridge Street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The damage done to council roads throughout the State by the recent flood rains, has been colossal," said Ald. R. T. C. Storey and Cr. J. M…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The damage done to Council roads throughout the State by the recent flood rains, has been colossal," said Ald. R. T. C. Storey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Traffic has been completely disrupted on the important Segenhoe-Aberdeen road, where flood waters of the Hunter have "bitten" a great slice out of the alluvial embankment and encroached on to and well beyond…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Late on Sunday night it was estimated that 9000 people are now homeless in the disastrous North Coast floods. At Grafton a man was drowned and his body was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The swirling, rushing water of the Hunter River has placed the well, situated in the bed of the river itself, out of operation, and the extent of the damage cannot be ascertained until the river recedes. This is what happened at Aberdeen at the week-end, with the result that…
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