Wading Home Through Flood Waters
RATHER A DIFFICULT TASK. — These people were crossing to their flooded home yesterday by a plank put across a trench over four feet deep…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1930
673 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 34
Floods Cause Postponements And Alterations to Coalfields Football Fixtures Union Game Mullally Cup Almost a Final Wanderers — Carrington
Rugby Union interest to-morrow centres in the programme allotted to No. 1 Sports Ground, where two first grade games and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SOCCER State League Competition the Fixtures Floods May Cause Postponements
The leaders of the Slate League competition, Adamstown, will meet Canterbury to-morrow at Hobart Park. Canterbury has not won one game out of the 13 played this season, and cannot be expected to extend the competition leaders,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →From the River Inspection of Floods Areas Public Works Party Grim Scenes of Desolation
A unique opportunity for seeing the flooded areas on, the Hunter River islands, and at Hexham and Tomago, was afforded to-day, when a tour of inspection was made in the tug, Taree, by the engineer-in-charge of Public Works (Mr. Neilley), who was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WRECKED Glen Ayr Mine Flooded Out Salvage Work Futile
Millions of gallons of water rushed in the Glen. Ayr mine at 2 a.m. to-day. The three shafts were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Flood Boat?
The necessity for a boat at Cessnock, to be used during floods, was stressed by Alderman Dixon, at last night's meeting of the council. A…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Stand by Home" Old Farmer's Resolve His Worst Flood
"This is the worst flood I have ever been in and I've experienced them all since 1893," said a grey bearded old farmer from Ash Island…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No Trains North of Waratah Lines Flooded
The north and the north-west are still cut oft from their regular communication, and the north coast is completely isolated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thrilling Row Food for Flood Victims Waves Over Boat
The story of an crating row with a large quantity of food supplies from Hinton across the floods to the Wolloling area was told by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →From Flood Areas River Boats Get Through
After passing through areas laid desolate by flood waters with tree tops as the only indication of the river course, two vessels succeeded in reaching…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Export Flood Causes Reduction
The quantity of coal, including bunkers shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 31,075 tons, all of which represented shipments…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Relief Fund Sufferers from the Flood "Newcastle Herald" Acts Public Subscriptions Invited
The reports of the intense sufferings and losses of the great many people in the Maitland and adjacent district affected by the Hunter River flood this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Water at Wallsend
The flood water on Brooks swamps and adjacent arcas at Wallsend, has risen several feet. The stormwater channels of the town have also almost been filled by water…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Receding Hunter River Falls to 29ft Railway Position Serious Hundreds of Maitland Families Homeless
The flood water in the Hunter River is now slowly receding, but in all parts of the Maitland district there are extensive areas of backwater flooding the land, and it will be many days before…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wallsend Flood Preventing Recurrence Discussion in Council
At Wallsend Council meeting on Thursday night. Aldermen aired their views as to what should be done to prevent, or at least minimise, the flooding of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Mine Flooded Efforts to Save Glen Ayr Barricades Futile
Despite the frantic efforts of a band of men who toiled through Thursday and the greater part of the following night in the forlorn hope of saving Glen Ayr colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Merewether Council Drainage of Floodwater
Merewether Council met on Thursday night, there being present the Mayor (Ald. J. Robinson), Ald. J. Dixon, R. Wells, A. Campbell, J. Sanders, E. E. Rowlands,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heartbreaking Home-coming For Hunter Flood Victims Women Cried Homes Were Inches Deep In Yellow Mud Pathetic Return Hunter Flood Waters Receding at Rapid Rate
Flood waters at Maitland are rapidly receding, and at 9 a.m. to-day the river at Belmore Bridge was 25 feet 6 inches. Great areas of slimy mud now replace the portions recently covered by water. Though, at midnight last night, the river at Belmore Bridge had fallen to 30 feet — a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Report Improved Flood Position
Reports received at Newcastle police headquarters this morning indicated that the position had improved in all of the flood areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DROWNED? Denman Man in Floods Police Drag River
Police believe that Cyril Ness, a young farm hand, who disappeared in the Hunter River, at Denman,…
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