Flood Warning Hook-up
A wider range for the Hunter Valley flood warnings system was predicted on Monday by the Minister for…
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Floods & storms, 1954
310 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 16
Extracts ‘Mercury’ From Files 50 Years Ago. August 18, 1934 Communication Facilities During Floods
Mr. Pierce Healy, council clerk of Muswellbrook wrote a letter recently to the effect that he had been, directed…
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A 14-man Flood Warning Committee for the Singleton Municipality and the Shire of Patrick Plains…
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Singleton Municipal Council has approved the following personal for the town’s flood warning committee:—…
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CANBERRA: The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. R. G. Casey) has announced that the Australian Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day’s Leader Labour And Defence Ugly Scenes in Brazil As Riots Developed After Suicide of President Vargas Crowds Storm American Consulate, Burn Newspaper Buildings
RIO DE JANEIRO: Demonstrations broke out in o tense and heavily guarded Rio de Janeiro yesterday in the wake of a dramatic suicide by President Getulio Vargas, controversial “iron man of Brazil.” President Vargas, 71, sent a bullet through his heart and died in his palace…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Warning System Pleases Dairymen In Lower Hunter
Farmers in the Lower Hunter would appreciate the high frequency radio communication network to give warning of impending floods, the deputy chairman of the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy…
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Lower Hunter farmers yesterday made the first of a series of bold moves in an effort to force the implementation of essential flood mitigation works on the lower river area…
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Farmers in the Lower Hunter would appreciate the high frequency radio communication network to…
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CALCUTTA: Widespread floods in northwest India are estimated to have killed 200 people and caused damage…
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The meeting convened by the Lower Hunter Shire Council and held at Raymond Terrace…
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Farmers in the Lower Hunter would appreciate the high-frequency radio communication network to give…
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CALCUTTA: -The Deputy Commissioner for Assam State. (M Sultan) announced' last night that the…
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SINGLETON: Two storms broke over Singleton last night the first at 6 o’clock and the other at 8.30 p.m…
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The Workworth flood mitigation dam was not an essential in the Hunter flood prevention plan, Mr. H. J. Tulloch said at yesterday’s of the Hunter Valley Trust…
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Warkworth Dam was the only hope of any real flood protection on the Lower Hunter River, Mr. F. H. Brewster said yesterday. Mr. Brewster, Chairman of the Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Threatens African Quake Wrecked Area More Than 1000 People Killed In North African Horror
ALGIERS: A terror-tinged threat of a flood disaster, posed by the damaged walls of the Oued Fodde Dam—North Africa’s biggest—is adding ominous undertones to the Algerian earthquake horror in which at least 1100 people are feared killed with 5000 to 6000 others injured, and many thousands homeless…
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A terror-tinged threat of a grim flood disaster posed by the damaged walls of the Oueda Fodda dam, North Africa's biggest, is adding ominous undertones…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Extracts From ‘Mercury’ Files 50 Years Ago September 14, 1904. Tenders for Floodgates Close
According to the departmental announcement tenders for the new floodgates at Wallis Creek will close next…
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Tenders for the completion of the Wallis Creek floodgates were opened by the Public Tender Board in…
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