Hundreds Die In Big Floods
RIO DE JANEIRO, Fri. (A.A.P.): More than 300 are missing and thousands homeless in the wake of…
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Floods & storms, 1948
311 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 16
200 Disappear in Persian Flood
TEHERAN, Dec. 20. A.A.P.—Two hundred people disappeared and hundreds of houses collapsed in a flood which invaded five…
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LONDON, Dec. 21. A.A.P.—The Trieste municipal authorities have put up ropes in the streets to help people pull themselves along…
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Mr. Cyril Griffiths's forecast for Newcastle and the Coalfields-to-day is: Fine. Hot inland, warmer along the coast, with north-westerly…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Torrential rain did thousands of pounds of damage in the city to-day. Thousands of Christmas shoppers…
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LISBON, Dec. 23. A.A.P.—The fishing village of Albufeira, in south-eastern Portugal, is suffering the biggest disaster…
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Weather conditions are developing towards rain later this evening, according to Mr. R. W. Parker's forecast…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Heavy rain in Far North has suspended train services between Quorn and Alice Springs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Losing A River: How the Hunter River has silted up since 1863: A cross-section at Pitnacree Bridge. The reduction in the waterway—which greatly increases the flood danger—is obvious. Hunter Floods Caused By River Neglect
SOIL erosion is receiving most of the blame for and top priority against the Hunter Valley's chain-reaction problem of erosion-silting-flooding, but the Hunter River itself and its tributaries come in for their share…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.F.).—Gales, floods and snowstorms have caused damage in many parts of Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This is the last of the series of three articles on flood mitigation and erosion in the Hunter River Valley. It was written by a staff correspondent. Hunter Valley Needs £8,500,000 To Stop Drift
A 20-YEAR PLAN involving expenditure of about £8½ million is needed to save the Hunter Valley from a fate of near-devastation within 50 years. The experts have given a clear warning that time is the important factor in arresting the…
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