Belmont Flood Damage
Access to Belmont, by way of the Great Northern Highway, was cut off yesterday afternoon when the culvert spanning a big drain on the outskirts…
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Floods & storms, 1929
473 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 24
Brisbane Notes Brisbane, Wednesday. Storm in Parliament
Just as a profound calm often immediately precedes a storm, so did three days. unmarked by any indication of an upheaval, precede a closing of an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle is a Calm in the Election Storm
With no opposition to the Labor candidate, Newcastle did not figure in any last minute election rush like this one in Sydney yesterday, when Electoral Office employees were busy issuing ballot papers, ballot boxes, rolls and polling booth equipment for to-day's Federal elections…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Merewether Council Mines Subsidence Act Street Flooding
Merewether Council met on Thursday night, there being present—Ald. WV. Henderson (Mayor), J. Robinson, R. "Wells, H. H. Rowlands, J. Sanders. A. Campbell,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Floods Likely Weather Bureau Warning
Newcastle police have received the following wire from the Commissioner of Police: "Weather Bureau reports danger of floods on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Threats Hawkesbury and Shoalhaven Newcastle Position Hunter and North Coast Escape
Although Newcastle district has had intermittent rain for the past week and there was continuous rain to-day, no flooding of a serious character has occurred, chiefly due to the newly constructed drainage system…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Widespread Rains Hawkesbury in Flood Wheat Belt Benefits Sydney
The tropical disturbance, which dominated the weather in the eastern part of New South Wales during the past week, moved further southward during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Don't Rush Take Floods in Low Gear 'Ware a Stall Ignition Must Be Kept Dry
A flooded street of action of road may be the Waterloo of any driver, if he does not know a few rules for this sort of driving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labor Government May Offer to Pay Miners' Share of Coal Reduction Inland Seas Homes Inundated WINDSOR-RICHMOND Rising Flood Waters SYDNEY
Rising flood waters have Isolated Windsor and Richmond, Scores of houses at Pittown, Cornwallis, and Clarendon are feet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Floods
By working continuously throughout the last two nights farmers at Goulburn Grove, near Large, have built an embankment which has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ocean Triumphs Ships That Defy Gales
Man's ancient enemy, the sea, is losing the age-long fight. Old Father Neptune, who wields a vicious trident at times, is before the bar of justice. He must admit…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tester's Hollow Flood Menace
Since the opening up of the Maitland coalfield and the construction of the existing road from Maitland through Kurri Kurri to Cessnock, the necessity for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lowlands Flooded Mostly Farming Areas
Mulbring Creek overflowed at Dagworth early yesterday morning, and continued for about eight hours when it receded. It topped the embankment protecting the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Victims Assistance for Cessnock Sydney
Mr. Baddeley, M.P., to-day waited upon Mr. Chaffey, the Chief Secretary, and urged that assistance be given to residents of Cessnock, who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Speed of Flood Waters
A bottle was thrown into the river at Singleton on September 12 by David Pearce, of John-street, and on September 17 the Engineer-in-Charge of Surveys and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Loss Hawkesbury and Nepean Floods Crops Ruined Damage Estimated at £100,000 SYDNEY
Survey of the damage caused by the floods in the Hawkesbury and Nepean Rivers shows that it amounts to £100,000. Between £45,000 and £60,000 worth of potatoes are a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Poor Bidding East Greta Mine Machinery Flood Hampers Sale
Though there was a good attendance, the bidding could not be regarded as spirited when the old East Greta colliery wan offered for auction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Windsor Isolated By Flood Waters Boats Carry Bread and Milk
SOMETHING NEW IN MILK CARTS who the experience of Windsor yesterday. This is how the milk was delivered in town from Wilberforce, on the other side of the river. A back-to-the-horse movement has been Ind[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Flooded Area
The Hunter River at Maitland was slowly falling yesterday, but it must fall below 15 or 16 feet before much relief can be given to the areas south of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Noah and the Flood Dean Disbelieves Story London, October 15
"I do not believe in the Flood, and never did," said the Dean of Peterborough, at in meeting of the Bible Society at Northampton to-day…
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