Railways and Flooding
The Railway Department, through Mr. Skelton, M.L.A. has informed New Lambton Council that the construction work advocated on the…
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Floods & storms, 1927
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After the Floods Lower Hunter Farms
The conditions in the farming districts on the Lower Hunter and Williams Rivers during the last three weeks have been satisfactory. Most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brock Outpoints M'gale. E Brisbane
In a great fight last night Fred Brook, 10st 10lb, outpointed Frisco M'Gale, 10st 13¾lb, M'Gale opened favoruite, but the betting soon veared in favour of Brook…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Bridges Coalfields Flood Damage
Cessnock Municipal Council, at a special meeting yesterday afternoon, decided to have a now bridge erected across Lavender Creek, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Floods Sweeping Southward on a Fifty-mile Front (Australian Press Association.) New York
It is reported from New Orleans that if the M'Crea levce, on the cast bank of the Atchalafaya Basin holds for 48 hours, the backbone of the flood will, it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood-damaged Streets
Mr. Connell, M.L.A., with the Mayor and town clerk of Merewether, yesterday inspected the damages done to the streets by the recent floods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton Storm-water Garden Suburb Trouble
On the motion oF Alderman Felton, stockton Council decided last night to take steps to endeavor to overcome the North Stockton…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kearsley Shire Flood Damage. Main Roads Board to Help. Sydney
A deputation comprising Mr. G. Booth and Mr. W. O'Hearn, Ms.P., Messrs. Albert Burns, President of the Kearsley Shire Council, W. J. Grieve shire clerk,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mississippi Flood
In American newspapers of mid-April date, or a trifle later, and it by the last arriving mail, we get the first full reports of the great Mississippi flood to that time…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Repairs Kearsley Shire's Requests Granted Money for Roads
The Main Roads Board will make £3000 available to Kearsley Shire Council to complete the Locbinvar-Northern roads. It will gazette the new bridge at Wetton as a main road. With regard to other flood damage in the shire, it will offer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Peril Fresh U.S.A. Disaster New Inland Sea Seven Towns Endangered New Orleans
Another break in the Missis[?]pl levees has flooded a huge area, and seven towns were in peril yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Floods New York
It is reported from New Orleans that the levce at McCrea on the Atchiafalaya River, desperate efforts to gave which had been made for several days, broke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The American Floods New York
It is reported from New Orleans that hundreds of residents of the Sugarbowl area refuse to leave their homes, despite the on-rushing waters, which already…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mississippi Floods
Although the worst dangers threatening New Orleans have passed, isolated places continue to suffer. Residents at Bayon Teche, on the cast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thunderstorms
The Weather Bureau, U.S.A., has recently made a reckoning of the amount of damage done annually in this country by thunderstorms. It is enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flooding Problem Stockton Reclamation Drain Wanted
Stockton is faced with a big question in connection with the drainage of the municipality. During the recent heavy rains properties in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →American Floods
Mr. Hoover the Secretary for Commerce in an appeal to the nation for an additional £2,000,000 for the relief of those rendered homeless by the floods,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storms in America
A message from Bristol, Virginia, states that twelve persons are known to have been killed, and ever a score are missing and many injured, by a series of Kentucky,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →East Greta Danger Storm-Damaged Street
The recent heavy rains made a wreck of Beckett-street, East Greta, according to Alderman Black, of West Maitland Council…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Flood Damage Grant for Street Repairs
Mr. Conncll, M.L.A., has teen Informed by the Minister for Local Government, in response to his personal representations on behalf, of the…
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