Helicopters In Flood Rescue
The H.A.N, helicopter, destroyed on flood rescue work at Maitland cast £64,000, the Acting Prime Minister…
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Floods & storms, 1955
350 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 18
Scheme to Provide Land For Homes in Areas Flood Maitland Lions Club Will Help Residents
Maitland Lion Club has taken the lead in plans to shift Maitland to flood-free land. It has decided to give free land to people who wish to move their homes above flood reach…
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Supplies of gas to East Maitland consumers were turned on at 2 o’clock this afternoon, the town clerk (Mr. S. J. Dunkley) said. This is a further step towards the rehabilitation…
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NEWCASTLE: A large scale drive for food for Maitland flood Victims, to be Known as “Operation…
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City Council health officers have found a bandicoot and two rabbits among the flood victims buried in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm Water Flooding Scheme Prevention Would Cost £15,950
At Wednesday's meeting of the Municipal Council, aldermen considered a petition from residents of homes within the area north of Maitland Street from Bell Street to beyond…
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At a meeting of the committee of the Muswellbrook Bowling Club, held on Tuesday last, it was resolved to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Relief Statement
HOUSEHOLDERS who claim to be in distressed circumstances should obtain an application form from…
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The investigating committee of the Muwellbrook District Flood Relief Committee bsffr decided to extend the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Flood Contributions and Muswellbrook Aldermen "Direct Insult to Areas Affected"
"The £l¾ million pounds given by the State and Federal Governments towards flood relief is a direct insult to the people of the areas affecfed by floods," Ald. T. P. Dolaherity said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Record Flood Recalled 200 Miles' Per Hour Hurricane and Tidal Wave
How people lived through a cyclone which was accompanied by a 200-mile an hour gale, a tidal wave 25 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Slate Governor To Visit Flood Areas
The Governor of New South Wales (Sir John Northcott) wilt make on informal visit to the flooded areas of Maitland and Singleton next week. The Mayor of Maitland (Ald…
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OTTAWA; Everywhere the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. B. G. Menzies) has so far gone in Canada he has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lions Club Receives Applications For Flood-free Land
Maitland Lions Club has had more than 30 verbal applications for free land under its plan to help people move above flood reach. The president (Mr. C. J…
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Two men today were each sentenced to three months’ gaol for looting a shop in East Maitland during the height of…
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Sir Frank Richardson, chairman and managing director of Cox Brothers (Australia) Limited, head office of…
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LONDON : The Australian High Commissioner (Sir Thomas White) has received more than £26,000 sterling at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rental Is Exploitation Of Flood Victims
The N.S.W. Government had paid only £108 each for 58 Nissen huts in the Rutherford area, the member for…
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BRISBANE: Plans are being made by police for the mass evacuation of two central Queensland towns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Owner-Farmers’ Flood Losses
Referring to the heavy [?] sustained in the flood by farmers at Bolwarra fend other parts of the Hunter, Mr. A…
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