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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

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Another Meeting On Flood-Free Link To Be Called

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 September 1952 · page 1

The question of calling a further public meeting in connection with the proposed flood-free rail link between…

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Bishop's Advice on Floods

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 September 1952 · page 4

Writing in the Diocesan Churchman, the Bishop of Newcastle (Rt. Rev. P. de Witt Batty) suggested, as a means of…

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Budget Sets Aside £90,000 For Flood Damage

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 September 1952 · page 1

In the State budget, which was brought down on Wednesday last, the Premier, Mr. J. J. Cahill, made provision for a special…

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Flood Destroyed 800 Yards of Putty Road

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 September 1952 · page 3

The Deputy Shire President, Mr. Pankhurst, and the Shire Engineer, Mr. McIntyre, have completed an inspection of the…

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Flood Conference On

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 September 1952 · page 2

RAYMOND TERRACE: Invitations have been accepted by the following to attend the conference called by the Port…

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Strong Winds Sweep Up Clouds of Flood Sand On Farms

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 September 1952 · page 3

Farmers in the Phoenix Park, Raworth and Narrowgut areas who, in the past month, have had their farms flooded, to-day faced a fierce duststorm. Flood sand, whipped up be…

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Butter Factory Overdraft To Help Dairymen In Drought And Flood Time

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 3

"That this Society be and it is hereby authorised to borrow and re-borrow from time to time from The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited by way of fluctuating Bank…

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Floods In India

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 5

DELHI: Floodwaters from the River Kost have swept through [?] villages In [?] [?] India…

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Interim Flood Grants For Hunter Valley

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY—Mr. Renshaw yesterday approved interim grants to several Northern councils for flood damage. He said the estimate of damage at…

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Farmers Flood Losses Premier's Assurance Of Help

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 1

The plight of the Denman district farmers who have suffered extensive losses as a result of the recent floods…

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Storm Warning

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 September 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: A warning was given this afternoon by the Sydney Weather Bureau that a depression, centred 400…

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Flood Damage To Port Stephens Shire Roads

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 September 1952 · page 2

RAYMOND TERRACE: The engineer of Port Stephens Shire Council (Mr. A. L. Cook) reported to council…

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Kearsley Shire Flood Grant

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 September 1952 · page 3

CESSNOCK: The Minister for Works (Mr. Rehshaw) has advised Kearsley Shire Council that he will make…

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Maitland Floods Alderman's Views

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 2

While he sympathised with the people who had been affected by the Maitland floods, he believed that no homes…

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£58,000 Flood Damage in Shire £1500 In Grant from State Government for Muswellbrook; £1000 for Merriwa

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 4

Of the £350,000 flood damage this year, Muswellbrook Shire damage caused in the last two floods amounted to…

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Jap Textiles Flood Empire Market

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 1

LONDON: Japanese textiles are now flooding Empire markets and for the first time since the war have topped Lancashire’s sales, the Daily Express to-day reported…

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Inspection of Flood Damage

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 5

SINGLETON: The shire clerk (Mr. H. Troman), the foreman {Mr. T. Jackson), and the inspecting officer for. the…

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Deputation to Minister to Urge Dredging Silting And Barrage Considered Major Causes Of Floods

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 4

A conference at Raymond Terrace yesterday agreed that silting of the Hunter River and the barrage across the south, channel ranked high among the major causes of recurrent floods in the Lower Hunter. It considered that dredging from Newcastle to Maitland and the removal…

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Survey Of Flood Damage At Largs

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 4

A very large and representative meeting of farmers of Dunmore, Goulburn Grove and King Island in Large School…

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Flood-Free Road Plans For County

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 4

Plans by the Main Roads Department for a flood-free highway from the Long Bridge at Maitland, which…

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