Flood Wise
School children evidently don’t mind floods. Before school early this morning a small group of boys on the…
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Floods & storms, 1950
807 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 41
Danger of Serious Flooding Appears To Have Passed Careful Watch Advised In East Maitland Area
With the Hunter River at Maitland lapping the Belmore Bridge gouge around the 24-feet mark throughout to-day, danger of any serious flooding appeared to be passing, and unless further rain falls in the upper reaches of the stream, the danger point should be over by to-morrow…
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Since early this morning, a band of 12 neighbours battled with Mudd Brothers, of Pitnacree, East Maitland, in a fight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warkworth Flood Mitigation & Water Conservation Bill Details of Scheme Given to Parliament Will Hold 100 Feet of Water
Details of the proposed earth dam to be erected near Warkworth were given by the Minister for Conservation (Mr. G. Weir) when the second reading of the Bill was agreed to. The Warkworth Dam will be of 400,000 acre-feet capacity and is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Heavy Rain in the North Floods in Upper Hunter
Although general rain continued to fall throughout the North and Nor' West on Tuesday, Scone and Murrurundi were the only centres where flooding occurred. Heavy rain set in at Murrurundi on Monday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sharp Rise In Hunter River At Maitland. But Flood Danger Passed
There was a sharp rise In the Hunter River at Maitland in the last 24 hours and the gauge at the Belmore Bridge showed 28 feet 28 Incites this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mail Lorry. Washed Down Flooded Creek
Allan Jarvis, the driver of a mail lorry on the Kars Springs-Bunnan route, had a narrow escape from drowing on Monday when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Men and Women Build Levee. Warren's Bid to Check Flood Sydney
Residents of Warren are hopeful that a mile and a half long levee built along the banks of the Macquarie River will hold back the bulk of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News From Flood Areas Rivers Slowly Receding DUBBO
The Macquaric River reached its peak of 45ft. at 1.30 a.m. yesterday and last night the danger period had passed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Train Services Stop Dislocation Caused By Slate-wide Floodings
SYDNEY, Thursday.—damage has dislocated many country train services. Many branch lines are completely inoperative and until the water clean away it will not be possible to ascertain how long it will be before the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ebb of Flood Waters Is During To-day Hundreds of Acres Inundated in East Maitland Area
Farm on water-covered properties around East Maitland, and those in the low-lying residential section, were this afternoon standing by a waiting the expected ebb of floodwaters, which inundated a large area from early last night…
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At 3 o’clock this afternoon the Hunter River was washing the Belmore Bridge gauge at about 28ft 16ins…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Baby Beat the Floods
A Newcastle Aero Club plane flew to Widden Stud Farm, Scone, yesterday to help Mrs Hewitt, wife of the stud…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letter To The Editor Floods and Droughts
Sir.—The control of floods and droughts is of national importance, but very little has been contributed by past Governments…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Repair of the Floodgates Railway Department Unable To Contribute
The Railway Department will not assist in the cost of repairing or maintaining Wallis Creek floodgates, it advised Maitland City Council to this effect in a letter read at the fortnightly council meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brilliant Chiquita for Caulfield Sprint Flemington Meeting Transferred Because of Floods
Floods on the Flemington racecourse forced the Melbourne Racing Club to transfer its meeting on Saturday to Caulfield racecourse, and the Easter Handicap will be altered to nine furlongs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Drowned in Flood
The disastrous and widespread floods in New South Wales area easing in most central towns, but a nene-year-old boy was drowned in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: Our Sorrowful River Flood Waters STlLL Lying on Some Farms River Falling At Rapid Rite
Although there has been a rapid fail in the fiver during the past couple of days, flood waters are still lying on some of the farms around East Maitland. When the waters broke through the banks on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Warren Flooded Collapse of Levees
SYDNEY, Sat.—Sections of the levee built at the western town of Warren collapsed under terrific pressure of the flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Holiday Gales in England
LONDON, April 10.—Whistling gales, grey skies, rain and even hall and snow flurries yesterday scattered hundreds of thousands…
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