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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1950

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To-day’s Leader: Flood Warning System Load Shedding in Maitland Area

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 1

The Maitland City Council electricity supply department has received information from the northern regional power controller setting out arrangements for broadcast announcements, supplemented by press notices, on each…

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Mayor’s Flood Relief Appeal

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 5

Mr. J. En[?]ght, of Maitland today sent a cheque for £144/3/ to the [?] or of Maitland’s flood appeal It represents donations collected at…

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Steady Drop of River Height Maintained Opening of Floodgates Is Awaited

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 5

Steady drop of the height of the Hunter River at Maitland was maintained during to-day and the fall of the stream up to this afternoon was approximately three feet below the peek of the renewed flood scare about midnight…

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Scouts Offer Help In Flood Work

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 4

SINGLETON, Friday.—Singleton Boy Scouts, at their monthly meeting last night, decided to contact Maitland Boy Scouts’…

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Country Women’s Work In Flood

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 4

The president (Mrs. H. Johnston) reported to a meeting of the Maitland branch of the Country Women’s Association on the work of the…

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Flood Warning System

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 4

IN SYDNEY this week the Federal Government representative on the Flood Relief Committee, Mr. H. J. Bate, said that “it would be criminal negligence if action was not taken to organise an effective system of…

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Flooded Areas Get £28,500 8,000 Farms Damaged

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 4

The Lord Mayor (Ald. O'Dea) has announced grants totalling £28,500 to 11 flood-affected areas…

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Floods Show Importance of Limeburner's Creek Road Shire President Urges Deputation to Main Roads Commissioner Suggests Road Be Brought Up to M.R. STANDARD

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 1

Wallarobba Shire Council, on Tuesday, at Dungog, adopted a suggestion by its President (Cr. Carlton) that a deputation from the Stroud Shire Council, Port Stephens Shire Council and Wallarobba Shire Council meet the…

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High School Getting Back to Normal Pupils Overcome Setback Caused By Flood

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 2

Conditions at Maitland Boys’ High School are gradually returning to normal. Attendance figures are now almost as high as before the flood-, allowing, of course, for the epidemic of influenza…

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Ministers Estimate Flood Damage

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sat.—Ministers of the Commonwealth and New South .Wales Parliaments at a conference in Sydney estimated…

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Flood M[?]ation Work in America Establishment of Community Funds

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 5

The Previous article described the Mississippi floods of 1937 as the turning point in the history of American flood control. The hope was expressed that the floods of 1950 would serve a similar purpose for Australia…

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Donations to Flood Relief Fund

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 2

In forwarding £6000 to the Mayor of Maitland’s flood relief fund to-day, the proprietors of the “Sydney Morning Herald,”…

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Donation to Flood Relief

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 2

SINGLETON, Monday.—At the monthly meeting of the Methodist Men’s Brotherhood last night, it was decided to donate…

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To-day’s Leader: A Tragic “Try-Out” Fall in Flooded Backwater Area Slow Gates Have Opened, But River Still Too High

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 1

Fall in backwaters from the long-flooded low-lying areas of Maitland has been particularly slow since the Wallis Creek floodgates opened automatically early yesterday morning…

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Orchestra Helps Flood Fund

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 3

Two members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, which has played in Maitland, Kempsey and Grafton, conceived the idea of…

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"Resentment and Exasperation Bishop And Floods

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 2

"Once more we are lost in admiration for the completely self-forgetful heroism of men and women who labured day…

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Big Flood Relief Carnival This Friday Night

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 1

The committee organising the big flood relief carnival for next Friday night have things well in hand, but can…

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Limits to Flood Grants Maximum of £40 for Home, Farm Damage

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 2

Grants to flood sufferers from the Mayor’s Flood Relief Committee Fund will be limited to £10 for claims foe damage to clothing and furniture, and £40 maximum for damage to houses, crops, farms and personal effects…

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Masonic Ball for Flood Funds

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 3

One of the most popular balls of the season will this year have its entire proceeds donated to the Mayor of Maitland’s flood relief…

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M.z.d.c. Assistance for Flooded Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 19 July 1950 · page 4

A special meeting of the executive committee of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was held In Sydney on the 12th July, Mr. J. B. Carlton…

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