Flood Damage To Shire Roads
SINGLETON: Patrick pista[?] Shire Council will receive a grant of £1,350 for damage caused during the flood [?]…
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Floods & storms, 1953
228 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 12
Shire accepts revised flood relief schedule
The Shire Council yesterday decided to accept a revised schedule of works eligible for assistance from Hood…
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WELLINGTON (A.A.P. Reuter): Police and volunteers from Christchurch find nearby Ranglora worked throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Co-operative Insurance Scheme Not Favoured By Milk Zone Council Branches
Branches of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council in districts affected by floods did not support the co-operative insurance scheme proposed by the general secretary (Mr. L. C. Tarton) the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Township swept by cyclone
TAMWORTH: One house was destroyed, two were unroofed, and three partly unroofed in a cyclone at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods and Gales in Europe Bring Death, Destruction Huge Wares And Tides Sweep Through English Coastal Towns
LONDON: Western Europe’s wont land and Ma storms for 1600 veers have brought the known death [?] over the week-end to Marly 400. Hundreds of others are feared to have perished, but continuation of the disastrous 100 miles on hour gales have made it impo[?]ble to ascertain the full…
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LONDON: At least 29 persons have been killed in the flood disaster on the east coast of Britain. At Marblethorpe, a tidal wave tons through the sea defences, killing nine people and devastating the…
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Floods in the low-lying areas of England and Europe last night continued to claim a steadily increasing number of lives…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood insurance not favoured by branches of M.Z.D.C.
Branches of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council in districts affected by floods did not support the…
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The general secretary of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council (Mr. L. C. Turton) told the Maitland branch that branches…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods’ Effect on Food
LONDON: Britain’s worst flood disaster will adversely affect the nation’s food supply for years to come…
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LONDON: The storm lashed North Seo, reclaiming for its own lend captured by man over the centuries, had by 10 o’clock G.M.T. last night killed neerly 1000 people in [?] flows over the lowlands of…
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"Collarendbri Gazette": It would be difficult to make a true estimate of the cost of the damage dene by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Toll From Europe’s Floods Is Mounting 1300 Deaths But Many Hundreds Still Missing
LONDON: Apart from some areas of Lincoln shire, floodwaters now are subsiding slowly in Britain, but the total of deaths caused by the North Sea’s vast inroad in Britain, Holland and Belgium has risen to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Toll in Europe Reaches 1300 LANDON, Wednesday
The unofficial total death roll caused by the North Sea's vast Inroads into Britain, Holland and Belgium has risen to 1300. with several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Today’s Leader Agreement On [?] Gale Poses Grim Threat of New Havoc in Europe Collapse Likely Of Holland’s Remaining Sea Defences
LONDON: Fresh flooding in Belgium, the threatened collapse of Holland’s [?] son defence and a 60 m.p.h. gale [?] section of the British coast last night posed a gries threat of new have in Europe’s Disastrous floods. A report from Brussels says that the River Sch[?] last night broke through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£50 Gift for Flood Victims
Maitland Rotary to-day cabled a gift of £50 to Rotary International, British Isles. The money has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Worst Floods for Centuries [?] For Dutch R[?]tion Work
[?] Holland was suddenly [?] that has not been witnessed [?]has been caused by the highest tides [?] water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Showstroms and Blizards Follow Disaster One-teeth of Holland's Farm Lands Flooded LONDON
Even before the floods which have just ravaged Europe's Low Countries have completely subsided, snowstorms and blizzards are now sweeping across many parts of the Continent, leaving a white chaos…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chamber Of Commerce Will Make Flood Mitigation First Aim
Council of the Maitland Chamber of Commerce last night decided to make flood mitigation its No. 1 object for 1953. The re-elected president (Mr…
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