Harvest Thanksgiving at Methodist Church “Grand Faith In God, Despite Disastrous Flood”
Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 2
The display of harvest goods at Maitland Methodist Church yesterday, even in spite of the flood damage, [?] on a larger scale and even more attractive in design than that of previous years…
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The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 2
BRISBANE, Sunday: A relief train from Mackay, carrying supplies of building materials and skilled building…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 8
Lower Hunter Shire Council decided yesterday to pay half the cost of a new floodboat for Dalwood. Other half of the…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6
Maitland City Council will informed by lower Hunts [?] Council that is considered by the latter body that an annual…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 1
BRISBANE, Friday.—Twelve women and five children were rescued by a dinghy when the Georgina River flooded an area…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 2
WITH the experience of the June flood well in mind the people of Maitland will take small comfort from the report of the city engineer (Mr. Brond) to the effect that the embankments on the river from Mt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: The Flood Problem Admiral Recalls 1943 Plea for Planes Australian Ministers Visit To America
Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 1
NEW YORK, March 20.—Admiral William Leahy, in his book, “I Was There,” records visits of Dr. Evatt and the late Mr. Curtin to the White House. Admiral Leahy makes these two references to Dr. Evatt:…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1950 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Water up to five feet deep is expected to inundate the flood-bound township of Wyuna today…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1950 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Flood waters are sweeping through areas along the Goulburn River…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 1
NEW , YORK, March 22.— Storms with winds up to 65 miles an hour continued yesterday to pound North. Atlantic shipping…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 1
NICOSIA, March 23.—Floods and heavy snow In the severest winter in Cyprus to living memory have caused damage to crops…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 2
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Heavy rain felling over a wide area of southern New South Wales and northern Victoria, from the coast to Broken Hill, caused serious rises in countless rivers and streams…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Six Thousand Leave Homes Flood Waters are Converging on Wagga
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday. — About 6000 people ore being evacuated front Wagga, which is threatened with severe Hooding by floodwaters racing down Tumut and Murrumbidgee Rivers and converging on the town…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 4
NEW YORK, March 24—storms which raised mountainous seas on the entire breadth of the North Atlantic continued to disrupt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Former Local Residents in Cyclone
Singleton Argus · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 4
It is understood that exGlennie's Creek residents, residing at Carmilla West, on the north coast of Queensland,…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 2
Water is one foot deep in the shopping centre of Wagga, and up to six feet deep in other parts of the town. Many residents have already been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Damage in Murrurundi Shire Grant on 50-50 Basis Offered by Department
The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 1
The following letter came to hand yesterday (through Mr. R. B. Nott, MLA for Liverpool Plaint), from the Public Works…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 7
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Heavy rain falling over a wide area of southern New South Wales and northern Victoria, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Work on Four Lines in Flood Mitigation Mr. Brewster Indicates Experts’ Long-Range Plans
Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 1
The only way to give effective relief from floods in the Hunter Valley is through reafforestation, soil conservation, provision of flood mitigation dams, and river channel improvements. No one of these agencies will, in itself, give…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 4
Twenty delegates from the Lower Hunter local authorities and public organisations, meeting in Maitland yesterday, unanimously agreed to a motion asking the Government to give parliamentary authority to the proposed Hunter…
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