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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1953

228 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 12

Race Against Hunter Floods All-out attempt to finish Glenbawn dam

Singleton Argus · Monday 13 July 1953 · page 1

The State Government this month will begin an all-out effort to complete the £7 million Glenbawn dam on the upper Hunter River. Shifts will work round the clock to raise…

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Full Report Sought on Flood Source

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 14 July 1953 · page 1

MAITLAND.—A comprehensive report on the Cockfighter Creek, one of the sources of many serious floods in the…

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All-out Attempt to Complete Glenbawn Dam £1,000,000 in Eleven Months Race Against Hunter Floods Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 6

The State Government this month will begin an all-out effort to complete the £7-million Glenbawn Dam, on the Hunter River…

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Flood Scheme Impractical

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 July 1953 · page 2

KEMPSEY: The Federal Treasurer (Sir Arthur Fadden) considers the Macleay County Council’s suggestion…

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Threat of Spread of Flood Havoc

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 July 1953 · page 1

TOKYO (A.A.P.-Reuter): With 70,00 already homeless in the [?]wirling flood waters on Japan’s main island of…

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Storm Over House Allocations Priority For Miners

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 2

SINGLETON: Two out of every three houses completed by the N.S.W. Housing Commission in Singleton in future will be allocated to the coal industry, it was revealed to-day…

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Flood Relief

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 July 1953 · page 2

The Flood Belief Committee has announced that it has fixed July 31 us the closing date for the receipt of…

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Flood Terror In Victoria

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE: Farmers and familiar spent last night In terror at thousands of tons of water freed from the bunt…

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Success Forecast For Flood Refuge Hillocks

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 2

Engineers forecast success for the flood refuge hillocks contemplated for the Macleay district, and the first, completed this week, indicates that their confidence will prove well founded…

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First Flood Refuge Hillock is Complete

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 3

The completion of the first flood refuge hillock for stock on the Macleay indicates that the scheme, if adopted throughout the district where possible, will prove the success forecasted by…

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Success forecast for flood rescue hillocks

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 2

Engineers forecast success for the flood refuge hillocks contemplated for the Macleay district, and the first, completed this week, indicates that their confidence will prove well…

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1000 Missing In Floods In Burma

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 August 1953 · page 1

RANGOON: Heavy floods have destroyed the town of Shw[?] 90 miles north of Rangoon and 1000 people are missing it was reported yesterday. Four thousand of the town’s 500 pop[?] were…

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Flood Fefuge Hills

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 27 August 1953 · page 6

Engineers forecast success for the flood refuge hillock contemplated for the Macleay district, and…

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Many Scurry From Floods

Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 August 1953 · page 1

PALLAS: Floods Bent 4600 people scurrying from their homes in Texas yesterday. But, in New York and…

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Flood In Nile

Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 August 1953 · page 2

CAIRO: Floodwaters from the Nile destroyed more than 300 houses in a village in apper Egypt, made nearly 1500 home…

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Textile Industry’s Fears That Japanese Will Flood Market

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 September 1953 · page 1

LONDON : The 35 number nations of GATT will meet in Geneva on September 17. The main issue before the nations will be the admission of Japan…

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Muswellbrook Greyhound Racing Four Winners Start at Odds-on—head Victory to Double Grit—major Cyclone Again Successful

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 September 1953 · page 6

Fielders received four good results when winners won at long odds at Saturday night's meeting of the Mechanical Coursing…

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Isolated Thunderstorms

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 September 1953 · page 1

NSW Forecast: Cloudy fn many districts, Sporadic thunf[?] and showers, chiefly in central, Southern and…

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Floodwaters left him weak in spirit

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 September 1953 · page 1

Ex-licensee of the Albion Hotel. Elwin Lawrence Thearle, was fined £5 in Singleton Court on…

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Bigger Floods Are on the Way Advantage In Channel Scheme, But Adverse, Too

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 September 1953 · page 2

The comprehensive report and opinions by Public works Department engineers, presented this week, contains a number of plain facts which will agg[?]vate the minds of the Lower Hunter population which has…

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