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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.— A Neptune bombe, capable of carrying an atomic bomb, yesterday completed a 5060 miles non-stop flight in 25 hours 57 minutes in a record flight for planes taking off from an aircraft carrier…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When the river breached on Tuesday at Pitnacree-road, East Maitland, Messrs. Mudd Bros., who had not taken a penny from their land since June last, lost a pumpkin crop worth, conservatively, £2000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With the heavy falls of rain at the head of the Dartbrook and Kingdon Ponds over the week-end, the two creeks came down on Monday morning, breaking their banks and causing floodings in the Dartbrook and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Feb. 11.—Six days of non-stop rain yesterday-reached their climax in fifty m.p.h. gales which lashed southern Britain,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The report of the Shire Engineer (Mr. E. R. Brown) at the monthly meeting of the Shire Council yesterday revealed that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WELLINGTON, Feb. 14 (AAP-Reuter).—The township of Marton, near Wanganui, is Isolated and may be without gas for three…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →St. Paul‘s Church, Maitland, was officially reopened at the special service last night, following the extensive damage caused by the flood in June. The church was filled and included in the large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland City Council is to be asked by Lower Hunter Shire Council to call a conference for the purpose of inviting all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →President of Lower Hunter Shire Council (Cr. T. McCarthy) said to-day that Mr. Brewster, chairman of the Hunter Flood Mitigation Interim Committee, had a surprisingly intimate knowledge of the flood predicaments of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NSW Forecast: Continuing warm and sultry again, becoming unsettled in the south-west and southern districts, with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. —President Truman has called for a great moral crusade against organised crime in the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CHICAGO, Feb. 16. — New floods have driven about 40,000 persons from their homes in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Speaking at a meeting of the South Maitland Flood Mitigation Committee last night, the chairman (Rev. Carlos Stretch) said that as far as that committee was concerned, it would not cease in its work until something had been done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE can be no question at all of the need for something more than talk about flood mitigation. We have got to reach the point where action will be taken, as far as is humanly possible, to prevent a repetition of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir.—As a resident of the Martindale area, recently isolated by the break in the Goulburn bridge, may I thank Mr. Robertson and his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Lower Hunter Shire Council decided to ask Maitland City Council to call a conference of all local government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A previous articles referred to the official statement issued on behalf of the N.S.W. Government to the effect that preliminary work relating to flood control had been delayed by the shortage of qualified technical staff…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINGLETON. Sat. — The overseer (Mr. W. Burnett) reported to a meeting of Singleton Municipal Council that the recent flood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Three members of the crew of the 1141-ton auxiliary schooner, Mil[?]ta, were injured when the cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Monday. —Two men who were marooned by floods at Muttaburra, in central Queensland, reached Longreach after travelling…
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