Using Aid To Flood Victims
GENE[?]Emergency aid is [?]to Egypt by [?] air for thousands of flood time in the upper Nile…
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Floods & storms, 1955
350 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 18
Violent Storm Causes Damage at Power House
The violent electrical storm at Muswellbrook on 29th December, caused damage…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fight to Save 2000 in Floods
ATHENS: Soldiers and sailors were lighting last night to save 2,000 people trapped [?] floodswept northern Greece…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Muswellbrook Men Injured When Wall Collapsed Took Shelter During Storm
Mr. Jack Lowe, and his assistant, Mr. Val McTaggart, both of Muswellbrook, sustained leg injuries in an unusual accident, at Scone on Tuesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thunderstorms Are Predicted
NSW FORECAST: Cooler southerlies, gradually extending into the southern border districts, but hot in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Accepts Grant for Flood Restoration Work Minister Offers £12,400 For City Area
Maitland City Council last night agreed to accept a grant towards flood damage restoration work estimated to cost £18,700. The Minister for Works and Local Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Floods Gutted in Sydney Fire
SYDNEY: A fire early to-day gutted three floors of a five-storeyed building in the city, and caused about £60,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner-Goes To Help Of Seamen In Storm
NEW YOKE: The Cunard liner Queen Mary manoeuvred in a storm and darkness on Sunday night around a small…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Carroll Report On Flood Mitigation
The Department of Conservation still had the Carroll report under consideration, the Hunter Valley Trust was told…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grant For Restoration Of Flood Damage
The Hunter Valley Conservation Trust yesterday agreed to contribute one-sixth of the cost of an £18,700 flood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Quicker Flooding Than 11949 Faces Maitland, Says Engineer No Security In Lower Hunter
Maitland would be flooded more quickly now than it was in 1949, a farmer Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission officer said in Singleton yesterday. He said the added width of the river would tend almost to double the rate of flow of the river in a flood…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Likely This Evening
New South Wales Forecast Scattered thunderstorms an the slopes and [?], with patchy rain in most of this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Storms Predicted
N.S.W. FORECAST: Intermittent rain and cooler southerly winds in southern districts extending gradually to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milking Interrupted By Storm
Rain for a while fell at the rate of four inches en hour during an electrical storm which struck in the upper…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Crop Losses in Floodings
More than 18 highly productive farms in the Phoenix Park area were flooded to-day as water backed op from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tension Eases in Maitland As Tension of Widespread Flooding Diminishes
Maitland relaxed this afternoon after its second lightning flood disaster threat in exactly 12 months. However district farmers in many areas continued to stand by as water crept slowly over hundreds of acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Rain at Muswellbrook Over Four Inches in Two Days
The heavy storms which broke over the town on Tuesday and Wednesday caused considerable damage to road and street surfaces. Streets were inundated on Wednesday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Affected Show
RAYMOND TERRACE, President of Raymond Terrace Show Society (Mr. C. F. Brown) said to-day that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Estimates : Nearly Half Million Lost in Floods in Past Six
A farmer, Mr. T. E. Lantry, estimated to do that Phoenix Park producers had lost £400,000 to £500,000 in the [?] syeam. Mr. Lantryâs Phoenix Park property yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Warning System Failed Yesterday For Raymond Terrace
The town clerk (Mr. S. J. Dunkley) to-day denied a claim that the central organisation had been responsible for the partial failure of the Hunter Valley flood warning system yesterday…
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