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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

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Snow 75 Inches Deep After Storms In U.S.

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1952 · page 1

CHICAGO: A neat cold wave has poured across northern and central United States in the wake of…

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Storm Havoc in U.s. and Britain

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1952 · page 3

LONDON.— Winter gales and snowstorms which have swept the Atlantic, Britain and the northern United…

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New Storm Threat To Crippled Freighter

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK: A new storm threatened: the already turbulent North Atlantic yesterday as Captain Hondrik Kurt…

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Yachts in Tasman Gale

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Trans-Tasman yacht race competitors have been battling against gales since last night, the “mother…

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Homes Wrecked by Gale

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Violent galas bartered the central N.S.W. coast during the night, wrecking homes, buildings and…

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Freighter Rescues Three Men. Launch Disabled in Storm. Gales Lash N.S.W. Coast. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 2

Three men were rescued by the coastal freigher, Bermagui, early to-day after spending eight hours in a disabled launch…

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Paying Cost Of Flood Warning Scheme

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 3

The Hunter Valley Conservation Trust will not move in the reimbursement of maintenance costs incurred by constituent councils in the flood warning scheme for the Lower Hunter until approached by the…

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Roads Flooded with Blazing Petrol Police Effort To Deter Jerusalem Riot

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Police flooded toads with petrol to set them ablaze hare lat night to keep back 10,000 Jews marching on Parliament, shouting: “No truck with Hitler’s heirs.”…

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Storms and Squalls Cause Damage

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 1

Fierce electrical storms and winds caused widespreaddamage and interrupted electricity and telephone services…

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Tug's Towline with Freighter Parted Ran Into Gale Nearing English Channel

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 1

LONDON: The crippled American freighter. Flying Enterprise parted from the British tug Turmoil early to-day when the towline broke in on Atlantic storm…

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Scheme for Flood Warnings

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 2

RAYMOND TERRACE Port Steph[?]na Shire Council confidents that the cost of a flood warning scheme for the…

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Storms Likely To-morrow

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 1

NSW FORECAST.: Fins and warm to rather hot in most districts, with SE to NE winds chiefly, Slight…

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Scheme For Sharing Flood Warning Costs Raymond Terrace.—

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

Port Stephens Shire Council considers that the cost of a flood warning scheme for the Hunter…

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Approval for Flood Warning

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 1

Port Stephens Shire Council approved in principle a flood warning scheme proposed for the Hunter Valley, with a proviso that the cost be…

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Tanker Ashore in Gale

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 3

LONDON : Panamanian oiltanker Sove[?] Raliant went aground between Dorer and D[?] last night, is [?] of the…

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Storm Halts Search For Freighter

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 1

SEATTLE: An Arctic-born [?] in the North Pacific yesterday temporarily balted the search for the missing…

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Flood Will Destroy Weir Engineer's Claim

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 2

Dungog Municipal Council's Consulting Engineer (Mr. J. F. Stewart) said on Monday he had noticed that Council's employees had cut an…

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Heavy Rain in Queensland

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: While New South Wales and Victoria are threatened once more with grave bush fires, Queensland coastal…

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North, Sea Gale Claims More Ships

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 1

LONDON.—Two ships have been lost, one is sinking, and four are aground, in gales lashing the coasts of…

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Attempt to Storm French Garrison Disorders In Tunisia Spreading Rapidly

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 1

TUNIS (Tunisia) : Five thousand Nationalist “Home-Rule” Arabs yesterday attempted to storm the French garrison of Mornia, a coastal town 120 miles south-east in Tunis…

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