More Sidelights on the Flood
Like many others, Mr. Bert Bridge had to run for it before the great wall of water which swept down the…
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Floods & storms, 1955
350 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 18
Gift Fodder Scheme Starving Stock in Flood Areas
The Acting Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, the Hon. R. B. Nott, MX.A., said in Muswellbrook on Friday, that there had been a most ready and generous response to the appeal by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dramatic Rescues In Darkness DEEDS Of Heroism on Dairy Farms Flood Victims Menaced by Snafees and Debris
Since the flood wafers have gone down, allowing many people to begm the heartbreaking task of starting life anew, many stories of heroism are being toold. In these rescues the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →M.p. Visits Flood Areas
The member for Lawson, Mr. Laurie Failes, is at present travelling through the electorate in the wake of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Athletes Aid Flood Appeal
SYDNEY: Many interstate stars will take part in a flood relief athletic carnival at Moore Park on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →City Council’s Record of Rise of Flood (By a Staff Reporter)
City Council officials estimate that only three[?] of wafer possible to reach Maitland caused the [?]ood. The screams which could have pouted added…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood-Warning System
A second flood threat which arose early this week, brought the Hunter Valley flood warning system back into operation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aldermen Meet in Odd Surroundings Exhausted After Long Periods on Flood Work
Aldermen, pressmen and members of the public observed the usual tradition and stood when the Mayor entered the council chambers to preside over an emergency meeting of Maitland City Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Insurance On Flood Damaged Motors
Hardly any flood victims would get compensation for damaged cars, Mr. E. Gersbach, of the Motor Registry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Minimising Threat Of Future Floods Floodways Helped On United States Rivers
The latest disaster to hit the Hunter Volley must bring to a very high priority in Government works the conception of a flood-control programme, and its immediate implementation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lorn’s First Flood in 70 Years
More than 60 per cent of homes in Maitland’s centre of Lorn were flooded for the first time in 70 years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department’s Help To Flood Areas
SYDNEY: The Acting-Minister for Agriculture and Food production (Mr. R. B. Nott) said that officers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Relief Applications
Maitland ran out of flood relief application forms yesterday, but new stocks arrived to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Funds For Flood- Free Roads
CESSNOCK: Kearsley Shire Council will ask the N.S.W. Government to bring Blue Gum road up to the standard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Started Stack Fire
Spontaneous combustion occurring in a stack of hay[?]fter floodwaters had receded caused the stack to catch fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Effect Of Flood On Mining Industry
Thousand of the miners who are assisting with flood restoration work in the Maitland district are facing six to eight week’s unemployment because of the flood…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milk Zone Council’s Flood Relief
In view of the magnitude of the found disaster within the milk flood and its direct effect on dairymen, it has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Golvanised Iron For Flood Victims
The Acting Minister . for Agriculture and Food Production (Mr- R: B. Nott) said that manufacturers of galvanised…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Still-fears of Cyclone in North N.s.w
SYDNEY: The cyclone now sweeping Queensland could still cause flooding in northern rivers, a Sydney Weather…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Flood at Its Height
This picture taken by staff photographer on Sunday morning, 27th Feb.) gives some idea of the height to which the flood waters rose in King Street, Raymond Terrace…
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