Gales Over England
LONDON, Feb. 2.—Gale warnings operated in all sea areas last night, and small ships took shelter. when gales and heavy seas…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Fierce Gales in British Isles
LONDON, Feb. 3. — Gales with gusts up to 100 miles an hour swept Britain last night, and a gust of 102 miles an hour—only 11 m.ph…
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LONDON, Feb. 4.—Gales which have been battering the English roast for over forty-eight hours, yesterday brought down the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goulburn,Hunter Rising ; More Heavy Rain Due Traffic and Communications Dislocated
The Goulburn River is heavily flooded and has risen 13 feet in two hours; the Hunter River at Singleton was still rising at aproximately one foot an hour, late this afternoon…
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SYDNEY Monday. — Capertee Creek burst Its banks, isolating 2000 people at Glen Davis to-day, after more than six inches of rain…
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NSW FORECAST: Rain continuing in most of the State, but clearing conditions in the north-western and north-eastern…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Heavy rain, up to five or six inches, has occurred during the past 48 hours over widespread areas…
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General rain over the Hunter Valley in the last 48 hours has creeks and rivers to rise, the Cockfighter and the Hunter River at Singleton showing a rapid rise this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ex-Servicemen Victims of June Flood Received £1400 Report to R.S.L. Sub-branch
More than £1400 had been distributed among 154 ex-servicemen victims of the June flood, the secretary of Maitland tub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League (Mr. S. R. Parker) said in his report to the annual meeting last night…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday. — Work will be impossible at the big Commonwealth No. 2 open cut mine for over a month because…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The weather cleared over N.S.W. to-day, revealing that thousands of pounds’ damage has been caused by heavy rain and floodings. Must badly hit section of the State is Capertee Valley,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter River Rises, But Danger of Flood Has Eased at Maitland Swollen Stream Carries Timber and Debris in Steady Procession
Cessation of rain over the Hunter Valley yesterday eased the minds of residents in Maitland, but a renewal through the night caused many people to become anxious regarding the possibility of a flood…
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Messrs. E. Austin and W. F. O’Hearn, secretary and publicity officer of the South Maitland Hood Mitigation Committee, stated to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Launch Lost In Flooded Hunter River (From Our Correspondent)
RAYMOND TERRACE, Tuesday.—A launch valued at approximately £400 disappeared from her moorings in the flooded river…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tension Eases As Flood Waters Subside Fresh Fears of Peril Came Last Night
After a night of anxiety on the part of hundreds of the city’s population, equalled since June last only by the flood scares of July, flood fears were allayed to-day with the steady fall in the Hunter River…
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Ald. A. M. Porter, at last night’s meeting of Maitland City Council, wanted to know why a system of flood warnings was not…
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While floodwaters in the Glen Davis and East Mailland areas have receded, the most destructive floods in the…
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After reaching a height of 36 feet 6 inches yesterday afternoon on the Dunolly bridge gauge, the Hunter river at Singleton dropped rapidly last night and is now down to 17 feet…
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ALL the indications to-day support the belief that Maitland has escaped another severe flooding by the narrowest possible margin. The river is now falling quickly after having reached a dangerous level, but not…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.— A hundred tourists in four buses have been stranded at Eden by flood waters since Monday night…
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