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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1955

350 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 18

To-day’s Leader Give Me The Books! Flood Danger Eases On North Coast

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1955 · page 1

SYDNEY: The flood danger on the far north coast has temporarily eased. Police said to-day that the…

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Flood Warning For Brisbane

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1955 · page 3

BRISBANE: Police broadcast urgent warnings to residents of low-lying areas of Brisbane to-day to prepare for…

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Sporting Events For Flood Appeal

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1955 · page 3

NEWCASTLE: The Stockton flood appeal committee, in conjunction with the Lord Mayor’s committee, has…

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Floods Delay Mail Trains

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1955 · page 3

The Brisbane Express via Kyogle and the North Coast arrived in Maitland 7½ hours late this afternoon…

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Morpeth Flood Relief Appeal

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1955 · page 3

A successful dance in aid of the flood appeal held at Morpeth School of Arts, the sale of cool drinks and a…

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Cost of Clearing City of Flood Debris

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1955 · page 2

“Operation Cleon-up'” was costing Maitland City. Council £1000 a day, the city engineer (Mr. E. R. Brown) said last night. Although it was five weeks since the flood, it…

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Brisbane Flood Threat Over

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1955 · page 1

BRISBANE: The danger of flooding which threatened Brisbane has now passed. More than 330 families were…

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Restoring Flood Damage on Hunter Asking Commonwealth to Raise Big Loan

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1955 · page 3

Maitland will be represented at a special meeting a singleton on Sunday which will confer asking the commonwealth to raise £100,000,000 loan to pay [?] flood damage…

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Council Recommend Flood Relief Measures

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 1

Electorate Council meetings of the Australian Dubbo strongly urge the Country Party held at…

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Flood Relief Depot

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 4

The following roster has been prepared for the staffing of the Flood Food depot, at C. of E…

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The Only Answer to Flood Danger Move to High Ground

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 1

The move by the Shire Council to shift from the low ground to ground not subject to floods is a good one, and is the only sure way of avoiding a recurrence of flood damage. However it is a scheme that must be carefully thought out…

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Pony Club Carnival For Flood Fund

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 2

Maitland District Pony Club will hold a carnival in aid of the flood appeal on Sunday, April 24…

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Committee to Give Flood Warnings

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 2

SINGLETON: Singleton Municipal Council has deferred [?] fu[?] a £4000 public works loan until a decision has…

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No Cheap Way for Flood Mitigation Engineer Says Stop Deploring, Get Action

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 2

An engineer said yesterday there was “no cheap way” to carry out flood mitigation works in the Hunter He is Mr. J. D. Jacobs, of the Kaiser, Walsh-Perini-Raymond Engineering Company…

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To-day’s Leader Comparable Burdens Hunter Valley Need of Flood Mitigation, Water Conservation

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 1

A public meeting of primary producers and interested citizens of the Hunter Valley is to be held in Maitland oh Friday, April 15. The meeting will adopt a new approach to the…

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Inquests on Flood Drownings

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 3

Inquests into the deaths of persons who lost their tines in the flood would not be held for at least a month,…

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Flood Relief Assessors

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 3

The secretary of the Flood Relief Committee states that assessors will be working in Lee-street and…

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Repatriation Officers to Inspect Flood-damaged Properties

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 April 1955 · page 3

Mr. Cliff Andrews, hon. secretary of the local subbranch of the R.S.L., had a 'phone call from Tamworth…

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Schoolboy Author Small Book for Flood Relief

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 April 1955 · page 2

Eleven years' old Brian Wilshire has found a novel way of helping the Flood Relief Fund. He has written…

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Sympathy for Flood Victims (To the Editor,)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 April 1955 · page 9

Sir,—May I have the hospitality of your columns in order to publicise a letter received from St. Mark's…

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