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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

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Heavy Rain Swamps Cairo

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 December 1951 · page 1

CAIRO: Heaviest rain for 10 years brought traffic and communications to a standstill last night, leaving Cairo…

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Flood Warning Plan for Hunter Valley Network of Stations To Relay Information

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 December 1951 · page 4

A flood-wa[?] scheme for the Hunter River Valley was approved in principle by local government and other interested bodies of a meeting in Maitland yesterday afternoon…

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Hunter flood Warning Plan Approved

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 December 1951 · page 4

A flood warning scheme for the Hunter River Valley was approved in principle at a conference of councils in Maitland yesterday. The conference was told…

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Storm Last Night In Time To Save Local Crops

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 December 1951 · page 1

A thunder storm last night brought the Singleton district its first substantial fall of rain since early September. The official recording was 96 points…

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Isolated Rain And Storms

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 December 1951 · page 1

N.S.W. FORECAST: Pachy rain and thunderstorms in the north-eastern and upper central districts;…

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Severe Gales Off Britain’s Coast

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 29 December 1951 · page 1

LONDON: Three ships were ordered to lay off Southampton last night until daylight, because of violent storms and exceptionally heavy seas, The port was not officially closed but there were virtually no…

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Cyclone In New Hebrides

Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 December 1951 · page 3

[?] Heavy loss of li[?] [?] from a cyclone which [?] the New Hebrides on [?], Wednesday and…

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Gales Brought Loss Of Life

Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 December 1951 · page 1

LONDON: Six people were killed when winds, reaching 100 miles an hour in several parts of Britain, caused hav[?]…

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