Flood Relief Fraud Brings Gaol Term
A man was sentenced to three months' hard labor at Newcastle Court today for falsely pretending that he was collecting money for the relief of flood victims at Kempsey…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Floods Raise Namoi 24ft. At Gunnedah
Floodwaters racing down the Namoi River have caused the river to rise to 24ft. at Gunnedah. There is no immediate danger to the town, unless further…
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William Ashton Callaghan, 40, painter, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Mr. G. C. Hook, S.M., at Newcastle Court…
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Provided the plan is approved by engineering experts, the committee, elected at a meeting of property owners and residents of South…
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GUNNEDAH, Thursday.—With fine weather again the smollen Namoi River is falling after having reached a height of 24ft 1in…
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MOREE: About 2000 sheep stranded in flooded areas west of Moree are being kept alive by feed dropped to them from the air. The sheep, all ewes, belong-…
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KEMPSEY, Tuesday.—A survey showed that 136 dairymen on the Macleay lost a verified total of 4376 cows in the floods—and returns…
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Newcastle branch of the Teachers' Federation last night decided to ask the Education Department to reimburse teachers for flood…
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The Education Department is to be requested to take full responsibility for flood losses incurred by teachers in the Maitland and Kempsey floods. The Newcastle branch of the…
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BOMBAY, Sept. 22. A.A.P.—Bombay, swamped by over 15 inches of rain in 24 hours, was given an official holiday to-day,…
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NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.): The chief Chinese delegate, T. F. Tsiang, today warned the United Nations General Assembly that the "storm raging in China" was a menace to world peace…
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The interim zoning plan for Maitland, with residential areas planned for elevated land above flood level, was adopted by…
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Hamilton R.S.L. has decided to adopt the recommendation of the Management Committee that a gift of £50 be made…
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There had been no Newcastle district donations of stock, or money to buy stock, to replace losses in the Kempsey floods, the Secretary…
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The rain caused some street and local floodings in Newcastle and district at the week-end. The Hunter Valley shared in the rain, but last night there was little change in river heights…
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As the weather cleared generally late yesterday the danger of flooding seemed to be passing in most areas. An exception is on the Namoi…
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SYDNEY.—More than 100 telephone lines in the Hunter's Hill and Liverpool districts are out of order because of the…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — At the junction of the Barwon and Namoi Rivers, near Walgett, the water is at the flood level of 32 feet, but…
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The Lakeside and Newcastle's outer suburbs were drenched in a heavy storm just before eight…
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MADRID, Thurs. (A. A.P.): Twenty-three people were killed in violent rainstorms which swept the southern half of drought-stricken Spain yesterday…
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