Odour Left As Maitland Flood Falls
The odour of flood backwater in Maitland, which intensified at the week-end as the water height decreased has made the return home of…
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Floods & storms, 1951
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£3000 Flood Grant To Lower Hunter
The Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. J. J. CaWll) has approved an additional interim advance of £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Backwaters Racing Through Floodgates
Backwaters from the flooded Nature- created inland sea of the Maitland area were to-day rushing through Wallis Greek floodgates at a faster pace than they did on the two inundations of the middle of last year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Busy Day for Flood Relief Forms
The district dairy officer (Mr. J. W. G. Smith) said today his office had distributed 1/ yesterday all of the 150 flood relief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Affects Lower Hunter Sanitary Service
Flood conditions affected an sanitary services within the Lower Hunter Shire. The Health inspector (Mr. T…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Old Floodgates
A stack of timber, from the old Wallis Creek floodgates being dismantled near Victoria Bridge, Maitland, caught fire yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Showground Will Be Bright Despite Floods
Visitors to this year’s Maitland Show will find it hard to believe that the show ground has been [?] twice [?] the last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Farmers Apply for Flood Relief
More farmers are applying for food relief now than after the June flood or last year, stated the district [?]fify officer (Mr. J. W…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Huge Flood Deposits in Newcastle Harbour More Power For District Officers Urged NEWCASTLE
Floods of 1950 and that of 1949 had deposited seven million tons of rich Hunter Valley land in Newcastle harbour in the form of sift, the Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Cahill) said in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods, Snakes, Rats!
The 800 population of the north-West town of Muttaburra, after a [?] day battle with floods, is now fighting a holds of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Relief for Farmers Raymond Terrace
The secretary of the Port Stephens Shire Hood Relief Committee advises that as no public money is yet available for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ideas on Abatement of Flooding
Mr. J. M. [?] of Bulwer street, told yesterday’s meeting of flood affected farmers of the Maitland area that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Make Lucerne "To Costly"
Many farmers would not of lucerne again because it was becoming a costly crop where replanting of the same area was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Relief Grants
The management committee of the N.S.W. Flood Victims’ Relief Fund approved granted totalling £6400 to help towns and districts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plane Crash in Storm New York
A marine transport plant crashed in a rain and windstorm at Eastville (Virginia) yesterday, killing all nine men on board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Brought Down 5 Million Tons of Silt
The 1950 floods had deposited 5 million tons of silt in Newcastle harbour, says Mr. Cahill (Minister for Works)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flooded Roads
Ald. Scott thought some arrangements should be made with Station 2HR to have it broadcast in flood time, the safe roads about the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letter To The Editor Hunter Floods
Sir,—Just a few more lines to add to that 80-years-old controversy of relieving Maitland of floods, Evidently, most of our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Member Views Flood Devastation
Mr. G. Bate. M. H R., who is the Commonwealth Government’s representative on the Common wealth-State Flood Relief…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Damage By Pacific Floods SEATTLE
Swirling flood waters are receding in the Pacific north-west after taxing eight lives and causing damage estimated at 50…
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