Flood Sightseers Warned
To ensure unimpeded rehabilitation of the flooded Maitland area over the week-end, the Superintendent of the Northern Police District…
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Floods & storms, 1949
685 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 35
County Council Party Flood Bound On Road
Members of the Northumberland County Council who went to Maitland to inspect flood conditions gained first-hand knowledge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£20,000 Flood Relief Target
After a visit to Maitland yesterday, the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) said he had set £20,000 as the target for the Newcastle Flood Relief Appeal. The appeal now totals £10, 500…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ian Healy's Suburbia, This Week Singing In The Flood (Of Waterfalls)
Even at the height of a heartbreaking flood—that may or may not, have been "worse than in "93"—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Here's An Argument About Floods
ACCORDING to official records, the present Maitland floods rose three inches above the level of the 1893 flood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods Caused Big 'Phone Breakdown
The extensive floods over the Lower Hunter Valley are believed to have caused the biggest telephone breakdown ever experienced in this district, but a gang of more than 50 men from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.j.c. Members Give £135 to Flood Victims
Newcastle Jockey Club members, who attended last night's general meeting, subscribed £135 to the flood relief fund…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supplies Issued To Maitland Flood Victims
The chairman of the Maitland Gift Clothing Committee (Ald. J. V. Kennedy) said today more than 70,000 articles of clothing have been issued from the distribution centre at the Town Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Supplies Frozen For Flood Relief
The Department of Building Materials had frozen all stocks of roofing iron, asbestos sheeting, piping and other…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£12,000 In Flood Aid Fund But More Is Wanted Immediately
Newcastle Flood Relief Appeal today exceeded £12,000, but the Lord Mayor (Ald. H. D. Quinlan) is asking for more—and wants it quickly. A considerable volume of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mixed Sports to Aid Flood Victims
Stewarts and Lloyds Kecreation Club will hold a mixed sporting programme, consisting of Rugby League, Soccer and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →League Matches Tomorrow To Aid Flood Fund
Kurri Rugby League officials expect a capacity attendance to-morrow afternoon when Kurri and Central will play first and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Kurri Masonic Ball for Flood Victims
The annual Kurri Masonic ball is to be held despite lighting restrictions next Wednesday night. June 29, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cleaning Up After Floods
Top left.—Railway employees cleaning up carriages and platform still partly under water after the floods. Top right.—Bob McCormic and Mrs. M. Winson, his mother-in-law, sorting out crockery and belongings when they returned to Rose St. to clea up after the floods. Below left.—"Clean-up gang" sets out by boat to help flood victims repair their homes. Bottom right—John Watson, John Sadler and Frank McGrath returning after a "salvage' trip with a jug, a toaster, an iron and some muddy clothes, all that they could see worth-while bringing away, after visiting submerged houses. They will return when the waters have gone down…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Flood Work in Mines to Continue
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Mineworkers engaged on flood work in a number of northern N.S.W. mines, including Aberdare Extended, will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Did This To Maitland Church
Floodwaters surging in Maitland's 21-year-old St. Paul's Church of England tore up the floor, tossed heavy cedar pews into a tangled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Wrecked Church Interior
The interior of Maitland's historic, 91-year-old St. Paul's Church of England has been wrecked by the flood. FLOOD WATERS raging inside…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →10,000 Pay Visit to Flood Area
Motor-cars were banked up for more than three miles on the New England Highway yesterday when traffic police checked sightseers from driving their vehicles into flooded Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday In Flood-ravaged Maitland
In Elgin-street, receding floodwaters revealed Mr. H. Cridland's damaged cabin (top left), Messrs. R. Allen and F. O'Brien and Miss M. Cooper recovered mud-caked crockery (top right), and Mrs. J. Evans hung out some salvaged towels (centre, left). Beside a tent on Rose-street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New State Movement Offers Help to Flood Areas
The New England New State Movement has offered to widen the Maitland Flood Relief Appeal to embrace all districts within the boundaries of the proposed new State…
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