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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

328 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 17

Destruction Through Floods

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 September 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE: Rain and floods in Victoria and South Australia have caused widespread destruction and rea[?]…

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Mr. Crook on Flood-free Rail Link Commonwealth Govt. Will Do Nothing

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 3

For some time the people of Cessnock had sought a flood-free railway so that coal could be taken away…

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Late Storms Expected

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 1

N.S.W. FORECAST: More rain in central, eastern and south-eastern New South Wales, with scattered…

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Flood Stops Traffic On Highway

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Hundreds of cars and trucks are banked up for miles at Marulan, near Goulburn, where a washaway at…

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Flood Levels

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 2

The flood level on properties in the Patrick Plains Shire will be computed following a meeting of the…

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Fierce Electrical Storm Hits Tinonee

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 2

Mr. N. Dennes, of Tinonee, was enveloped by a lightening flash and dazed for several minutes when a severe electrical storm struck the…

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Scattered Rain Isolated Storms

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 1

N.S.W. FORECAST: Fine over most of the state soothe scattered rain and Isolated thunderstorms in the…

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Public Appeal For Memorial Floodlights

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 2

The electrical engineer manager of Maitland City Council's electricity undertaking (Mr. Thorncroft) told…

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Hunter Flooding Predicted

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 1

N.S.W. FORECAST: Unsettled in the eastern half. Rain or showers on the south and central coasts and…

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Immediate Start Urged on Flood Mitigation Works Delay Will Mean Worsening Of Position

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 3

Chairman of the Hunter Valley Trust (Mr. F. H. Brewster) said at the monthly meeting in Maitland yesterday that the Government should be urged to put into effect at once the river improvement section of…

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East German Reds Storm West Berlin Will Hour-Long Battle

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 1

BERLIN: Five thousand East German Communists stormed the French sector of West Berlin last night with d[?]mards for all-German talk leading towards a national election…

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Thunderstorm Activity To-morrow

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 October 1951 · page 1

New FORECAST: Isolated showers on the Far North Coast. Unsettled In the western half of the State, with…

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Grants to Merriwa Shire. Further £1200 For Flood Damage

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 6

The Minister for Public Works and Local Government, Hon. J. J. Caihll, M.L.A., has forwarded the following letter to Mr. R. B…

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Local Rain, Thunderstorms

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 1

N.S.W. FORECAST: Cloudy and unsettled in most districts, tricks, with variable rain and local thunderstorms, but…

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Hot, Sultry And Storms

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1951 · page 3

NSW FORECAST: Scattered rain and thunderstorms with isolated squalls over most of the eastern half and…

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Immediate Start Urged on Flood Mitigation Works Delay Will Mean Worsening of Position

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1951 · page 3

Chairman of the Hunter Valley Trust (Mr F. H Brewster) sold at the monthly meeting in Maitland that the Government should be…

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Thunderstorms Developing

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 October 1951 · page 1

N.S.W. FORECAST: Show era in many parts of N.S.W. with thunderstorms and local severe squalls, but fine in the…

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Statements on Flood Mitigation

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 5

For some considerable time, Mr. Allen Fairhall, M.P. for Paterson, has been carrying on discussions with the…

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Minister Replies On Flood Control

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

For some considerable time Mr. Allen Fairhall, M.P. for Paterson. has been carrying on discussions with the…

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Fine, But Isolated Storms

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1951 · page 3

N.S.W. FORECAST: scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms along the northern half of the coast end…

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