Storm Blew Fuses
Lightning surges which blew fuses in the main electricity sub-station at Singleton and Ravensworth last…
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Floods & storms, 1954
310 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 16
Storm Kills 33 In U.S. Wide Damage By Snowfall
NEW YORK: The worst snowstorm in years in north-eastern part of the United States has killed 33…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bulahdelah Severe Thunderstorm
The long drought was broken in the Bulahdelah district on Xmas Eve by a severe electrical storm. This was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This Week in Wool Clip Estimate Down 9 Per Cent — Russian Wool Orders Switched From Argentina Chemical Colossi Plan World Fibre Flood — Depression Fears in the U.s.a
Back to their onerous task of valuing and buying the remaining and major portion of Australia's wool clip, world wool buyers reassembled in Sydney, Adelaide and Albury this week, and set the second half of what may be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Week in Wool Russian Wool Orders Switched From Argentina Chemical Colossi Plan World Fibre Flood
BACK TO THEIR ONEROUS TASK OF VALUING AND BUYING THE REMAINING AND MAJOR PORTION OF AUSTRALIA'S WOOL CLIP, WORLD WOOL BUYERS REASSEMBLED IN SYDNEY, ADELAIDE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ice and Gales in U.s
NEW YORK: A sub-zero blast of Arctic air put much of the eastern two-thirds of the United States in a deep freeze…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Work on Floodbank Ahead of Schedule Need For Further Improvements Stressed
Work being carried out by Maitland City Council on the reconstruction of the damaged flood embankment in the East Maitland area is expected to be completed more then two months ahead of schedule…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Mitigation Proposal
The amended scheme of the South Maitland Flood Mitigation Committee was discussed by the Maitland branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricket Notes Two Matches Stopped by Storms Aberdeen-Wingen and a Royals-Gundy First Forfeit of Competition
The first "wash-outs" of the season occurred on Saturday last, when the "A" grade match, Aberdeen v. Wingen, and the "B" grade game, Royals v. Gundy, were abandoned after heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bridge Washed Away In Flood
NEW YORE: Ten persons were drowned in Peru when a sudden flood carried away the Members bridge on which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Rain Forecast
N.S.W. FORECAST: Showers, heavy at times, along the east and tablelands. Further rain on parts of the western…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Maize Can Stand 80 m.p.h. GALE
A special type of maize, known as Y-1, is being developed at the Grafton Experiment Farm by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sisters Drowned In Flooded Cre[?]
BRISBANE: Two [?] were downed yesterday [?] noon when they tried to [?] a flooded creek at Mr. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain in Scone
SCONE: Following a heavy storm yesterday afternoon water entered a number of business premises, streets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Overturns in Flooded Creek
Mr. Robert Clendinning, of "Newarra," Muscle Creek, and a young man accompanying him, had narrow escapes from drowning when fording one of the crossings of Muscle Creek about 5 p.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scone Flood Damage Damage Estimated at Thousands of Pounds
Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused by the recent flooding of the town of Scone on Tuesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Flood Picture
The above picture, taken at 5.40 p.m. Tuesday. in heavy rain, shows, the flood waters in Kelly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Business Section of Scone Flooded Much Damage To Streets And Property Cloudburst In Fig-Tree Gully Catchment Area The Cause Kingdon Ponds Breaks Banks: Aberdeen St. Residents Flee
When Fig-Tree Gully, the diminutive waterway that finds its way serpentine-like through Scone — it is mostly inanimate, with its life, so to speak, governed by seasonal conditions — broke its banks at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scenes of Last Tuesday's Flooding Flood Sidelights
WHEN the flood stream entered the Willow Tree Hotel the licensee suffered a heavy loss. An extensive stock of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrong Word Caused Storm
LONDON: A storm which blew up because of a sentence a calendar appears to have abated following an…
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