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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

387 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 20

Flood Damage in Shire

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 November 1952 · page 3

Lower Hunter Shire Council’s engineer (Mr. W. R. Lipdsay) submitted to to-day’s meeting an estimate of £20,778…

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Damage Estimated at £67,578 in August Flood Rains Report To Kearsley Shire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 1

Damage caused to minor roads and bridges during flood rains in August this year was estimated…

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Flood Damage In Kearsley-£67,578

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 November 1952 · page 1

Damage caused to minor roads and bridges during flood rains in August this year was estimated at £67,578…

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Flood Control Is Rarely Permanent Levees Protect Only Against Overflow (Staff Reporter)

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 November 1952 · page 2

Experience in the United States has shown that permanent and complete flood control con rarely be cchieved due to physical and economic factors Levee banks have been constructed along most…

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Repairing Flood Damage

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 November 1952 · page 1

SINGLETON: The-Single ton Municipal Council last sight decided to accept an offer of 50 per cent, of the…

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Church Damaged In Storm

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 3

CRAFTON: Roman Catholic Church buildings at Cowper 18 miles from Crafton were wrecked in a violent…

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(Minister's £955 Offer Towards Local Flood Damage

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 2

An offer by the Minister for Public Works (Mr. J. B. Renshaw) to make available a grant of £955 towards…

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To-day’s Leader Words But Little Money This Was the Bombshell: Government to Give Only £2532 to Maitland for Flood Relief Council Assessed Damage at £39,500 Mayor’s Strong Criticism of Officialdom

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 1

The New South Wales Government is prepared to give only £2532 towards flood restoration in the Maitland City area, although Council has assessed damage at £39,500. This dramatic announcement was made at last night’s meeting of…

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Letters To The Editor Flood Mitigation

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 4

Sir,—Our valley was recently devastated by floods. The amount of devastation reached proportions which…

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Lightning Kills More People Than Floods, Quakes

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 7

Lightning kills and injures hundreds of people each year. Throughout the world it takes more lives,…

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Cyclone Flattens Big Area

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 1

JOHANNESBURG: Fifteen people were killed by lightning when a cyclone battered South African centres over…

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Jap Government Under Heavy Fire Storm Follows Surrender Of Two Soldiers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 1

TOKYO: The Japanese Liberal Government was under heavy Opposition fire to-day for surrendering jurisdiction of a British and an Australian soldier held on theft charges…

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Floods Have Left Mosquito Danger Close Watch On Fevers

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 1

Hunter Valley residents have been assured by the Health Department that a constant war is being waged on disease-carrying mosquitoes in flooded areas, but householders are advised to maintain a ceaseless vigil on…

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Tremendous Cyclone Damage

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 1

DARWIN: A series of cyclones struck Thursday Island, off Cape York Peninsula. late last sight, causing…

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Further Small Grant For Flood Damage

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 December 1952 · page 1

The Minister for Public Works (Mr. J. B. Reshow) has approved a further grant of £2100 to Maitland City Council towards the cost of repairing damage caused in the recent floods…

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Orders Flood In For British Arms

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 December 1952 · page 7

LONDON: Britain’s armements export drive has already produced enough foreign orders to ensure that her arms industries are keeps in full production for the next three years, according to an authoritative…

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Winsor Flooded With Letters

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 December 1952 · page 4

A "Write to Me" campaign launched by the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. R. Winsor, has resulted in a…

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Flood Relief Grant Cut Shire Council Seeks Increased Allocation

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 1

An informal meeting of Shire, Councillors, held on Friday, considered a letter of advice from the…

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Bank Intentions Would Waste Money Town Clerk Outlines Flood Works Position

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 2

In a report to last night’s meeting of Maitland City Council on estimated flood damage and expenditure incurred by council to date, town clerk (Mr. S. J. Dunkley) said the offer made by the embankment…

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City Council Confident of Clearing Up Doubtful Points Claim That Commonwealth Should Play Role In Flood Damage

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 4

The Mayor (Aid. M. J. Clyde) said of last night’s meeting of Maitland City Council that he would use every endeavour to get the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Renshaw) to visit Maitland early in the new year to look into matters relating to flood restoration work…

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