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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

310 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 16

Hunter Flood Warning System

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 2

Raymond Terrace Chamber of Commerce decided last night to protest to Port Stephens Shire Council on…

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Serious Floods bring Devastation To Wide Area In Persia, India

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 1

LONDON: Thousands of people were left homeless yesterday by floods which covered vast areas of Persia, East Pakistan and north-west India and threatened China…

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Many Deaths In Persian Floods

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 4

LONDON: At least 180 people have died and thousands are homeless in the floods in the Ghasvin area of Persia…

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Heavy Rain on Coast

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: Rainfall registrations for the Hastings, Hunter and Manning districts for the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m…

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Opening Of Flood Warning System

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 2

The Minister for Conservation (Mr. Enticknap) has accepted the invitation of the Mayor of Maitland (Ald…

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Flood Warning Organsation

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 2

The Minister for Conservation (Mr. Enticknap) has stated that a complete radio…

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Grant Of £3,927 For Flood Damage Restoration

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 3

In reply to representations on behalf of Kearsley Shire Council, Mr. J. W. Crook, M.L.A., has been advised by…

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Grant to Repair Flood Damage £760 for Muswellbrook Shire

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 12

The Hon. Roger Nott, M.L.A., member for Liverpool Plains, advised this week that he had received word from the Minister…

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Bank improvement in flood was big saving to H.V. Trust

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 3

Mr. E. O. K. Green told the Hunter Valley Trust this week that improvement of the Hunter River bank near Belmore Bridge in recent floods had reduced the estimated cost of…

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Flood Dangers: Disaster Feared If Mitigation Plan Not Evolved Early

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 3

The president of Lower Hunter Shire Council (Cr. L. F. Monkley) said this morning that unless scheme of flood mitigation for the whole of the Hunter Valley was evolved quickly a big disaster must…

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Army Announces New Plan For Effective Flood Rescue Work Immediate Aid To Threatened North Coast Areas

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 2

The Army has completed plans to enable it to assist in flood rescue work in the Northern Rivers area quickly and more effectively than in the past. An Army spokesman at Headquarters Eastern…

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Opening Of Flood Warning System

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 1

The Minister for Conservation (Mr. Enticknap) will make the first official test of the Hunter Valley radio flood…

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Cities Threatened By Flood

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 3

HONGKONG: A hundred thousand men, fighting to keep the swollen river Yangtse from bursting into a raging…

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Minister to open flood radio system on

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 1

The Minister for Conservation, Mr. Enticknap, will officially open Hunter Valley flood warning radio system next Monday. He will perform the ceremony at 11.15 a.m. in…

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Drought, Floods, Stock Losses State's Weather Picture Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 August 1954 · page 1

Drought in northern New South Wales, floods in the north-west, and bitter cold in southern districts, are killing new-born…

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Army Computes Plan for Flood Assistance

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 August 1954 · page 1

The Army has completed plans to enable it to assist in flood rescue work in the Northerns Rivers area quickly and more effectively than in the past. An Army spokesman at Headquarters Eastern Command, Sydney,…

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Lower Hunter Shire President predicts big flood disaster

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 August 1954 · page 4

The president of Lower Hunter Shire Council (Cr. L. F. Monkley) said that unless some scheme of flood mitigation for the whole of the Hunter Valley was evolved quickly a big…

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Hunter Valley Flood Warning Officially Opened To-day By Minister

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 August 1954 · page 3

The Minister for Conservation (Mr. Enticknap) in Maitland to-day paved the way for greater flood time warning in the lower reaches of the Hunter Valley…

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Flood Warning System Opened

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 1

The Minister for Conservation (Mr. A. G. Enticknap) yesterday officially opened the Hunter Valley flood warning radio network…

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To-day's Leader Looking For Dividends Everything Possible Being Done To Reduce Extent Of Floods

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 1

Conservation Minister (Mr. A. G. Enticknap) yesterday answered a question which has been asked many times in the Lower Hunter in the past five years. The question: When will Maitland be safe from…

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