62 Ponies Trapped In Flooded Mine
Sixty-two pit ponies are trapped in flooded working of Aberdare Extended colliery, near Cessnock. Miners' officials believe that 22 horses in one…
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Floods & storms, 1949
685 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 35
Worst Flood in 20 Years for Hunter Big Areas Inundated As Rivers At Danger Level
Most of the Lower Hunter River is facing the worst floods in nearly 20 years. Last night thousands of acres of low land were already under water At one o'clock this morning the Hunter River at Belmore…
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THE Superintendent of Police (Mr. Wiley) last night warned people in the low lying areas about Seaham, Miller's…
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Because of flooded roads in the Morisset district, Cooranbong Ambulance bearers had to carry a patient 500 yards from his house…
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Top: Mrs. A. A. Green and her daughter, Joyce, 6, members of a British migrant family, were yesterday forced to abandon their…
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Police made a dramatic dash by launch and motor truck today to take urgently-needed oxygen to a doctor's patient in floodbound Raymond Terrace. However, the debris became…
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During its flood bulletins this morning, Station 2HR (Maitland) broadcast a message to Miss Rose Spinks, of…
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Seven lives are feared lost in the floods at Singleton and nearby areas. Singleton police have a list of seven persons reported missing. Among them are two men, George Gardiner, 25, and Basil Clifton, 18, who were…
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The lakeside area has experienced its worst flooding in its history. More than 200 people have been moved from homes in the Mark's Point area while water has entered houses in Belmont, Nord's…
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SYDNEY.—The Minister for Social Welfare (Mr. Finnan) has sent emergency flood staff officers to every flooded area…
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SYDNEY: Heavy cyclonic rain has caused the severest floods on record from the Hunter River to the South Coast. Washaways have disrupted Metropolitan and Country…
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Today's Pictures of Lakeside Floods—Top picture shows a resident, rowing down the Pacific Highway to get household provisions. Other pictures show the flood waters feet deep in the Belmont South and Belmont areas. More than 200 people have had to leave their homes. In Maud Street (Belmont), water was four feet deep in places. Furniture had to be removed from a number of homes…
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The Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) will open an appeal to-day for donations of goods and money to help distressed families in the Hunter…
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A dead man was carried from his house over four feet of water, a sick woman was rushed to an ambulance by boat from her flooded home, and a mother and her new-born…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →River Falls, But Water Through Breaks Almost All Maitland Under Flood
Although the Hunter River at Maitland was falling early this morning, water pouring through the broken bank of the river two miles above the city is still flooding South Maitland…
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Flood relief workers found Mrs. McHugh, of Dora Creek, unconscious in her home late yesterday afternoon…
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The floods in the Hunter Valley should be a spur to the State Government to push ahead as rapidly as possible with water…
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Those drowned in the Hunter River floods were:— George Gardiner, 25, of Maison Dieu, near Singleton…
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YESTERDAY morning a group of small boys spotted large numbers of pumpkins of all sizes among the debris washed down…
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NEW YORK, June 19. A.A.P.—Six persons are known to have been drowned in floods in the Shenandoah and Potomac Valley areas…
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