Crops Damaged By Storms
SYDNEY: Hundreds of acres of fruit and vegetables have been flattened by violent storms which have…
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Floods & storms, 1954
310 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 16
Local Storms Forecast
NSW FORECAST: Cooler southerly change, with scattered showers and local thunderstorms moving over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thousandsdrowned in Jap Typhoon Disaster More than 500 vessels sunk in 60 m.p.h. gale in North Pacific area TOKIO
A ferryboat crowded with 1127 panicstricken Japanese men, women and children was capsized by a typhoon in the straits between Honshu and Hokkaido last night with a loss of more than 1000 lives…
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The Hunter Valley Conservation Trust advised Singleton Municipal Council that it was considering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Yields 114 Points in Scone
A rainstorm which developed in the near south-west gave Scone 114 points late on Saturday afternoon last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cost Of Maintaining Hunter Valley Flood Warning System
Ratepayers would make a double contribution to the Hunter flood warning system if the Hunter Valley Trust accepted responsibility for its maintenance, Ald. J. Kennedy Said at the meeting of Maitland City…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Fear Floods Have Damaged Crops Yangtze Had Heaviest Rain For 100 Years
HONGKONG: Reports from official Chinese sources and foreign travellers suggest that floodwaters from the swollen Yangtze and Huai rivers may have caused widespread damage to rice and wheat crops…
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N.S.W. FORECAST: Scattered rain with local thunder in the far west, moving slowly across the State, and followed…
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Lower Hunter Shire Council yesterday disagreed with a suggestion that the Hunter Valley Trust should hear half…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council View on Flood Warning
The Town Clerk of Maitland City Council (Mr. S. J. Dunkley) said this week that the council had decided in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Moves Same As 50 Years Ago
Resolutions of a public meeting at Raymond Terrace on August 26 calling for flood alleviation on the Lower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Long Last Windeyer's Creek Flood Free Bridge Opened
After years of agitation the bridge and raised roadway, to overcome the flooding of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seed sent to Iraq to lessen flood damage
An emergency shipment of six tons of garden seeds for flood-stricken Iraq was made by air to that country by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hurricane Death Roll Rises to 127 in Us. and Canada Heavy Damage In Toronto Floods
NEW YORK: Wreckage of what was once one of Toronto’s best residential districts yielded more victims yesterday of Hurricane Hazel, raising the Canadian known death toll to 45…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Warning System Ready If Needed
The Hunter Valley flood radio warning system may come into operation for the first time to-morrow morning. It will do this if rain which fell throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Rain Throughout District End of Long, Dry Spell
The prolonged dry spell in the Upper Hunter was broken when heavy falls of rain fell throughout the district during the past four days. At Muswellbrook 211 points…
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MELBOURNE: Temperatures dropped six degrees in a few minutes to-day as 65 m.p.h., winds, accompanied by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rescued From Flooded Creek By Motorist
SINGLETON: A motorist dived fully clothed info a flooded creek yesterday to save an unconscious youth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grant for Repairs to Flood Gates
The Minister for Public works (Mr. J. B. Renshaw) has approved a grant of £260 to Maitland City Council…
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The Minister for Conservation (Mr. A. G. Enticknap) said he hoped to have radio flood warning systems…
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