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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
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Floodwaters have stopped all trains on the main northern lines through Maitland. Several trains have been cancelled. North-bound trains are running as far as Broadmeadow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RECORD FLOODS HAVE ISOLATED THE BAERAMI, WIDDEN, KERRABEE AND MARTINDALE AREAS. Yesterday, Mr. George Bailey…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The need for a flood-free road and rail link with Sydney was stressed at the week-end by the Deputy President of the Patrick Plains Shire Council (Cr. Pankhurst). "There is a flood-free route…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floodwaters were in 100 Kempsey homes to-day. Nearly 300 families had been evacuated from the low areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An heroic losing battle against the tantalising of the Hunter River ended at Maitland shortly before daylight this when water from the stream started to cascade over sand-bag reinforced levees which, a week ago, saved the city from a major inundation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floodwaters which swept Singleton yesterday came within about three inches of the 1949 flood. The river reached its peak at 5 p.m. yesterday when 44 feet 9 inches was shown on the gauge at Dunolly Bridge. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parts of Glenridding looked like large lakes as the water swept across—in places fence high—into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More than 500 National Services trainees and school cadets were among train passengers who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Earliest flood in the Hunter about which there is any definite information occurred in 1818, two years before the district was discovered. It left behind it obvious traces of its severity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A plan for a rail link between Minimbah and will be presented to the Minister for Transport (Mr. Sheahan) and the Minister for National Development (Senator Spooner)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Health Inspector (Mr. T. C. Atkinson) told Lower Hunter Shire Council that the Chief Officer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To boost their case for a flood-free call link between Minimbah and Wyee, a deputation, which will meet…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—The recent floods again caused disruption of the passenger service between Newcastle ana Cessnock, as well…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Water spilled over the levee banks at Maitland this morning when the Hunter River reached a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Just as the flood situation was easing and residents were saying "Thank goodness that's over," further heavy rain fell and the Hunter River rose to a higher level than in the disastrous 1949 flood. It is estimated that 5,000 people are homeless in the Maitland area…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WITH a wide expanse of devastating, flood water wreaking havoc in hundreds of homes and over a wide area of rich farm land, residents of the city and district once more have to reconcile themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: The Sydney Weather Bureau to-day warned of unsettled weather developing in the south of the State. They said this could lead to fresh anxiety in the northern centres, which have just been through one of their worst floods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood victims who have taken refuge in Greta Migrant Centre are being so well cared for that many will be reluctant about leaving and going back to homes flooded five times in a little more than three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON: Twenty - two people are known to have perished In the nightmare floods which swept half of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →People who have gone back to flooded homes to clean up have found that silt deposited b y this fifth major flooding of the city’s residential area in just over three years is thicker and more gluey than ever — worse even than in the ,1949…
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