Maitland May Get More For Flood Victims
Another payment of £4000 to the Mayor of Maitland's Flood Relief Appeal from the Newcastle Lord Mayor's Fund was forecast…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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37 Miners Escape From Flood Waters
MILAN, July 19. A.A.P.—Thirty seven miners, trapped 300ft. underground by flood waters in a quarry near Milan, for 16 hours, came out…
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An additional £40,000 grant for flood relief in New South Wales was announced yesterday by the Federal and State Governments. The Commonwealth and State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£7026 to Repair Flooded Roads
The Shire Engineer (Mr. W. R. Lindsay) told Lower Hunter Shire Council today it would cost £7026 to repair shire roads damaged in recent floods…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Maitland Electricity Dept. Lost £13,000 By Floods
Maitland Electricity Supply Department sustained damage tentatively estimated at £8000 and lost a further £5000 in revenue during the flood, the engineer-manager (Mr. E. W. Thorncroft) told the Electricity Committee yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Floods Expose Coal in Qld
MACKAY.—Backed by the Mackay Council, 20 men left today for Nebo to investigate the possibility of starting an…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →£31 To Flood Fund From Social Club
Representatives of the Marcus Clark Employees' Social Club yesterday handed the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) a cheque for £31 for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Holiday Likely For Flood Victims
Within the next six weeks, 150 children from flooded Maitland homes are expected to be given a three weeks' holiday at Stewart…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Army Commends Soldiers For Part In Flood Rescue Work
SYDNEY: A special order will be published today by Eastern Command to commend the work of officers and other ranks who showed outstanding initiative and performed dangerous missions in saving lives in the recent flood disaster in the Maitland-Singleton and Camden-Windsor areas…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Eastern Command would publish a special order to commend the work of officers and other ranks who showed…
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The Lord Mayor's Flood Relief Appeal now totals £20,959/5/6. Yesterday's donations were £50 from the Union Steamship…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →School Closed Five Weeks By Flood
St. Ethel's Public School, in Parallel-street, Maitland, extensively damaged in the recent flood, and closed for five weeks, will re-open…
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The secretary or Branxton Rea Cross (Mrs. M. P. Charles) said today that the branch's appeal for food and clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle And Coast Lashed By Cyclone: More Rain Expected
A cyclonic storm coming in from the south-east early this morning brought heavy rain and a 60 miles an hour gale. Nobbys registered 78 points of rain up to 9 a.m. with registrations of 125 points at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →10M. Homeless In China Floods
HONGKONG, July 24. A.L.P.-Reuter.—Radio Peiping last night claimed that more than 10 million people had been rendered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland "Enriched" By Flood
In many ways Maitland was poorer because of the flood, but in many other ways it was vastly enriched, the Mayor of Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Afraid Of New Flood
Rain last night, followed by heavy falls today, filled many Maitland people with fear of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Defers Exercises
The southern N.S.W. coast is still being lashed by the cyclone and the air exercises to be carried out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press Double Cyclone
Late this afternoon Weather Bureau said that cyclone now had to depression centres—one about 80 mile north-east of Newcastle and the see…
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SYDNEY: The Weather Bureau said today a cyclone about 50 miles east of Manning Heads is…
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