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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
328 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 17
Farmers below Maltiand kept a vigil on the Hunter River throughout last night as the swollen stream threatened to once more inundate rich agricultural lands. After reaching nearly 25 ½ feet, however, the river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK: Although the twin cities of Kansas City [?] in Missouri and Kansas City in Kansas appeared to be [?]inning their fight to contain Mie disastrous, floods that [?]nundated four industrial districts, the raging fire that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK: A flood-crest 40 feet high rolled towards St. Louis yesterday far[?]cing levee workers north of there to give up their fight to save West Afton, despite around-the-clock help from troops rushed to critical points along the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A total off eight and [?] half tons of galvanised Iron was made available through local distributors in, Maitland as. an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK: St. Louis is bracing itself for the beginning of its worst flood in 100 years. Already it has felt the first…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day's cease-fire talks in Korea were washed out by floods blocking the road.—A.A.P. WASHINGTON, Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON: Floods in the American mid-west have dealt a blow at production comparable in some respects to an atom bomb with damage estimated at 750 million dollars more than £334,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MINNEAPOLIS. Fourteen people were killed and scores injured as cloudbursts, hurricane. force gales, and electrical storms…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON: Two men and a woman were killed in a violent thunderstorm which swept southern England yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Primary cause for the greatly deteriorated condition of many of the city roads and streets was the curtailment of maintenance and the cancellation of the tar Surfacing programme, following the 1949 flood, the committee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The villages of Broke and Bulga will probably be under water when the Warkworth dam is at high water level. However, because the dam will be used only for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As the United Nations and Soviet Russia manoeuvre tleir way into World War 111, the murder of Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Hashemite King of Jordan, Keeper of the Sword of Islam, brings the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Under such advance conditions, the staging of the 1951 Maitland show was one of the best efforts over made by the Hunt[?] River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, the president (Mr. W. E. Sparke) told the 91st annual meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEW DELHI: The famine districts of Darbbanga and Sahars[?], in the State of Paths Bihar, have suffered further devastation by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Maitland Flood Mitigation Committee, which has explored many avenues with pleas to have something done about the plight of the city and farmlands as the result of flooding, has decided to make inquiries through new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW, YORK.-There's still a nappy crisis in Kansas City, devastated by fire and flood two weeks ago…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: More than four inches of rain have fallen in the metropolitan area during the past 24 hours, flooding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.S.W. FORECAST: Continu[?] unsettled throughout, with more rain on the coast and tablelands. Further heavy falls…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →KANSAS CITY: Suds ran almost Knee deep in some floodbattered sections of Kansas City yesterday as a brewing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. R. Clendinning (Muswellbrook) stated at the last meeting of the Hunter Valley Conservation Trust that…
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