Hunter Dredging and Flood Mitigation
The Raymond Terrace Primary Producers' Union has invited Local Government organisations. Progress Associations. Chambers of Commerce and…
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Floods & storms, 1940
271 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 14
Floods in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)
One of the worst floods in the history of the Taieri district, due to the incessant downpour in the back country, is causing crop losses Miles of farming…
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Floods near Dunedin have forced farmers to abandon their homes, destroyed stock and inundated thousands of acres…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →N.Z. Flood Havoc Wellington (N.z.)
Floods at Taciri show no sign of receding. Thousands of acres have been inundated and considerable damage done to farms. Loss of stock is reported, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Plane Salvaged Carried Through Floods by Aborigines DARWIN
Carrying the engine and bodywork of a wrecked Gipsy Moth aeroplane through dense bush, and over mud flats, 17 aborignies took three and a half days to cover 15…
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Gene Reynolds has been added to the cast of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Mortal Storm," which is now in production. Margaret Sullavan, James…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Danger From Hunter River Conference Asks Minister for Dredge
Fears that the shallow Hunter River would not discharge flood waters rapidly enough to prevent serious flooding were expressed by delegates to the conference…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Flood Lighting of Hamilton Street
An effort is to be made by the Central Ward Progress' Association at Its meeting on Monday night to complete arrangements for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fierce Gale Claims Two Victims Trail of Damage at Wollongong Wollongong
Two men are dead, and a boy badly hurt as a result of a westerly gale which swept through Wollongong and surrounding…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chiefs' Message to Navy "Weathering Blackest Storm" LONDON, May 17
The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A. V. Alexander) and the First Sea Lord (Admiral Sir Dudley Pound) sent the following message to all ships operating…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tasman Flying Boat Delayed by Cyclone Sydney
Delayed because of cyclonic weather over the Tasman the flying-boat which should have flown from Auckland to Sydney to-day is expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Men Dead in Gale Widespread Damage at Wollongong WOLLONGONG
In a 70-mile-an-hour gale which swept over Wollongong district late on Friday night, two men, including a Newcastle mineworker, were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heat and Sand Storm Warm Welcome for Australians Settling in at Palestine Jerusalem, May 19
All day yesterday members of the second contingent of Australians sweated in withering heart, getting themselves settled in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hamilton Floodlighting
Business men and property-owners in Beaumont-street, Hamilton, will meet in the old Council Chambers to-night to discuss the floodlighting of the footpaths…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ask Council to Hold Poll Floodlighting Beaumont-street Hamilton Business Men Decide
Called by Central Ward Progress Association, a meeting of Hamilton business men and property owners last night decided to ask Greater Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood-lighting Beaumont-st. in Hamilton
Having accepted the proposal of the Newcastle Council for the flood-lighting of Beaumont-street, Hamilton, between the railway gates and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →General Weygand Begins Counter-Move Arras Re-taken by the French Spirited Fighting Round Cambrai Heavy Rain Favours Allies (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, May 22
The French have recaptured Arras from the Germans, who took it yesterday, it was officially announced in Paris to-day. Arras is in north-eastern France, 52 miles from the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Post Not for Mr. Theodore Political Storm Abates CANBERRA
An assurance to members of the Government parties that Cabinet had no intention of appointing Mr. E. G. Theodore as Works Coordinator was given by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nazis Mass 1,000,000 for Final Thrust Allied Rearguard Fight On Areas Flooded to Impede Nazis Danger Is Increased As Corridor Narrows London, Friday Morning
Fearlessly covering the evacuation of as many of their comrades as possible through Dunkirk, the troops of the Allied rearguard Have been fighting a magnificent action. The area around Dunkirk has been flooded in an effort to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Evacuation Barges Yser Floodings Scone Recruits
THE TOWN OF LILLE, in which fierce fighting has taken place, the Germans attacking and the B.E.F. fighting a rearguard action…
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