Governor to See Flood Damage
The State Governor (Lieut.-General Sir John Northcott) will be visiting Maitland on Monday afternoon next to Inspect…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Flood Supplies Still Held Up by Strike
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Members of the Kempsey branch of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, in defiance of union instruction,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hillston Battles Floods
SYDNEY, Thursday. — Forty council men worked round the clock sandbagging a levee in an effort to prevent Hillston, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Fund Further Supported
Eight residents of the Maitland Boys’ High School Hostel, in a house-to-house collection in East Maitland this week, raised…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grand United Oddfellows Offer Help to Flood Victims
The Committee of Management (Grand Lodge) of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows has decided to again offer relief to members of that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Concert For Flood Victims
A host of talent is to be presented at a concert to be held in the Regent Theatre on Tuesday night. The concert is being organised by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Rugby League Game Kurri-Cessnock Effort to Aid Flood Victims
The organising committee has everything well in hand for the big combined Rugby League game at Kurri Kurri on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Apex Club To Help Flood Victims
Members of the Maitland Apex Club will to-morrow morning distribute dry firewood to the homes of flood victims. During…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Advances to Repair Flooded Roads
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Cahill) announced that first advances would be made to councils to help, them finance repair of roads damaged by floods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Donations to Flood Relief Fund
To-day’s acknowledgments to the Mayor of Maitland’s Flood Relief Fund Include £200 from the Commonwealth Bank. This…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bookmakers To Help Flood Fund
At Newcastle races to-morrow bookmakers will contribute to the fund opened in Newcastle tor Maitland flood victims…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letter To The Editor Flood Mitigation
Sir,—Following the devastating nood of last year a letter appeared In the “Mercury” from myself expressing the opinion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood-Strican Electorate Solid For Rose 15,078 Voters Went to the Poll
With all votes in and counting completed after one of the most difficult polls in history—with voting taking place on two days because of floods, and being abandoned completely in some small centres…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →R.s.l. Flood Relief Dance
The R.S.L. Dance Committee will hold a dance in the James Theatre on Thursday, 13th July, to raise funds for relief to flood victims in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Causes Dairy Cows to Dry Off
Many cows in the Maitland district were being dried off to be sent to agistment because of the shortage of fodder through the flood, the District…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Devastating Flood Again Hits Macleay
The Macleay suffered its second devastating flood in ten months last week-end when a raging torrent swept through Kempsey and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stroud Shire Flood Victims Appeal
A meeting was held in Stroud on Wednesday night to organise an appeal for flood victims. It was decided to campaign for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Theatre Partv For Child Flood Victims
The officers and members of the Maitland Voluntary Aid Detachment will entertain 40 children to a theatre party on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Householders’ Losses Apparently Light Few Forms For Flood Relief Received To Date
Losses by householders as the result of the June inundation have apparently been light, because so far only 23 farms of application for assistance from the Maitland flood relief and the State flood relief funds have been lodged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Victims’, Holiday
Rev. James Goudie will be at the Town Hall from 10 o’clock on Monday morning for the purpose of Interviewing flood victims who…
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