Avoiding Floods Hamilton Wants Conference
Hamilton Council has asked Merewether to appoint three delegates to attend a conference at Hamilton, on June 24 concerning flood prevention…
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Floods & storms, 1927
496 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 25
Flood Mitigation Conference Wanted
The Louth Park and Dagworth Progress Association, in a letter to the West Maitland Council, advised that their committee had passed a…
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This bridge was wrecked by the flood following the cyclone which swept the cast coast of Madagascar…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Fears Last Night's Deluge Workers Walked Trams Held Up Again
Just when Newcastle was preparing for another flood this morning the rain stopped. Merewether and Glebe residents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sea Mutiny Chinese Crew's Rush Tried to Desert Fight on Storm-tossed Skip BRISBANE
For 10 days during which she lay at the mercy of angry seas, unable to summon help because she was without wireless, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storms in Victoria Much Damage Done. Melbourne
Torrential rain fell for nearly half an hour over Melbourne last night. Some basements of shops were flooded. The storm was particularly severe in…
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The American papers last in contain a great deal about the Mississippi flood, but as it turns out not much that could be esteemed new. Still, there is something,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The American Floods New York
With the flood waters having reached a low stage of recession. Mr. Hoover is leaving to-day to superintend the commencement of rehabilitation work in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm Waters
It has often been noticed the great trouble which many people experience, in certain parts, through the storm waters. This is a thing where we can say in all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drain Into Ocean Flood Prevention Proposal
Adamstown Council last night considered the advisability of having a survey made to see whether it was possible to drain the southern part of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vanishing Street Merewether Flood Waters
Fourteen apparently desperate residents of Ridge-street petitioned Merewether Council last night to kerb and gutter both sides of the street from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Relief Erina Shire's Grant SYDNEY
The Erina Shire Council has received £500 for flood roller from the Local Government Department. The council asked for £10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drain Into Sea Relieving Storm Waters Survey Wanted
A conference of district councils decided last night to ask the Minister for Works to have a survey made to ascertain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Calm Before Storm Drive on Tsingtao LONDON
Despatches emulating from Hsuchowtu indicate that the present lull will probably end shortly in a drive on Tsingtao and important holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Property Flooded Council Wins Case
Early in this year W. A. Laney, of Louth Park, West Maitland, sued the West Maitland Council, claiming 110 damages in respect of the alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Refuge for Flood Victims
One of the 32 refuge centres, established by the Red Cross to aid people made homeless by the Mississippi floods. Over 75,000 were cared for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Writ for £5000 Cessnock Flood Echo
On behalf of Messrs. Arthur Saroff, Limited, Cessnock, drapers, Messrs. Woodgate and Waller, solicitors, yesterday served a writ on Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Belief
A special flood relief grant of £460 is to be made available to Cessnock municipality by the Local Government Department…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storms in Europe
Severe rainstorms swept Southern England and Northern France on Thursday right, and heavy falls were general. The storm was accompanied by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Science and the Storm
A way of preventing lightning from setting fire to all in tanks has been adopted by the General Electric Company, which has discovered that lightning…
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