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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
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SYDNEY: A 20-year plan for flood mitigation in the Hunter River Valley to cost £8,500,000 has been recommended by the Hunter River Flood Mitigation Committee to the State Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HONGKONG, June 15. A.A.P.—A severe flood from the Pearl River in Kwangtung Province has driven 500,000 Chinese from their homes,…
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →HOBART: Rain was falling heavily over most of Tasmania late this morning. Only a miracle saved loss of life in the Southern Tasmanian floods which, in the New Norfolk, Huonville and Cygnet areas, were described today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A member of the Flood Mitigation Committee, Mr. Kaleski, of the Soil Conservation Service, said recently in Newcastle that it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HOBART, Tuesday.—Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused in the Derwent Valley and Huon districts of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HOBART: In the worst floods in the lower Derwent Valley for 59 years, 10 families today had to vacate their homes, thousands of acres of land were submerged, roads were blocked and many districts wer e isolated. More vain is threatened. The Lyell Highway between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HOBART, Wednesday.—Although the slackening of rain to-day enabled flooded Tasmanian rivers to recede slightly, the flood danger has not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cheques for £145 have been received by the Mayor of Greater Newcastle for the Flood Relief for Britain Anneal as a result of a special…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Gales have battered and delayed shipping for four days in Bass Strait. A storm warning was broadcast to-day to all shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COFF'S HARBOUR, Thursday.—The mystery surrounding the arrival at Coff's Harbour last night of the 45ft yacht Utiekah II, with the only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Because of the gale watches were doubled and additional mooring lines were run ashore for most ships in Newcastle Harbour last night. A boy was pinned down and injured when a panel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dredging of Newcastle harbour and the Hunter River to Morpeth would greatly assist flood mitigation in the Lower Hunter, the District…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AUCKLAND (N.Z.). Sunday.—A raging storm was fought for two successive nights in New Plymouth Harbour by ships which broke their lines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, June 23. A.A.P.—Ten persons were drowned when heavy rain caused the river to overflow and engulf the town of Cam…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A violent Tent wind storm which swept the area between Devonport. Burnie and Stanley, Tasmania, last night, brought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, Tuesday: At least half of the nation's 400,000 bituminous coal miners are on strike in protest against the Labor Control Act, passed by the Senate yesterday over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The U.S. Government is floundering under 11,000,000 cubic feet of war records…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, June 27. A.A.P.—One of the worst thunderstorms for many years broke over London shortly after 11 a.m. to-day. A deluge of tropical intensity followed, swamping…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, June 27. A.A.P.—Floods continue in towns in Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois, with the homeless aggregating 40,429—the…
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