Cessnock Red Cross to Aid Flood Victims
Cessnock Red Cross today began an appeal for food for the Maitland flood victims. The secretary (Mrs. D…
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Floods & storms, 1950
987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 50
Flood Warnings Are Issued for Manning River: Taree Isolated
Flood warnings have been issued for the Manning River, which today flooded the Pacific Highway north and south of Taree, making .it impassable to traffic. Euabalong, a village of about…
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The evacuation of homes in the South Malt land and East Maitland areas was continued today. "The Town Clerk (Mr. Dunkley) estimated that water had entered more than 250 houses. Picture shows a flooded area in East Maitland showing a partly completed house which the owner commenced to build after the last floods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Compensation Commission (Before Judge Lamond.) Flood Interfers
Floodwaters prevented an applicant from Ccssnock reaching Court today for the hearing of his case. Arthur Cecil Davies had reached…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Flood-Ruined Farmers Hope For Generous Govt. Help
With the hitter experience of six floods having devastated their land in 12 months, Morpeth district farmers hope that State and Federal Governments will he more generous than after the June 1949 floods, when all farmers were offered was a bank loan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Duck's" Battle Against Wind, Waves in Flood Rescues
Lashed by wind-whipped waves of floodwater and continually dragged sideways like a giant crab by a powerful current that threatened to dash it against submerged fences along the roadside, an army "duck"…
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With its back to the wall, wet feet and milled tail, this cat, trapped in the Maitland floods, is a typical example of the dislike and terror which all cats feel in regard to water. It was snapped by a staff photographer in East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Flood Pictures From Hinton Area
Top left: Mrs. Leo Burgess and her two children, Keith (11) and Barbara (5), on the haystack at Hinton last night, in which they lived since rapidly rising floodwaters forced them to evacuate their home at Hinton on Friday. Top right: Group of hungry flood victims from the Morpeth-Hinton area waiting to receive the Army "duck"…
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Yesterday's aerial pictures of flooded Maitland. Top: Water over Newcastle-road reaching to the bridge crossing…
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Sympathy with the people of the Hunter Valley in their present- distress is not enough. What is of more concern is what…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State flood relief committee will leave Sydney to-morrow morning for Maitland to assess the damage and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Funerals Delayed By Floods
Four funerals due to leave the Greater Newcastle area yesterday for Beresfield Crematorium were unable to traverse the road owing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Cause More Big Coal Losses
Floodings and heavy seas yesterday caused another heavy coal loss on the Northern and Western fields and affected one colliery in the…
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VANCOUVER (British Columbia), June 20. A.A.P.—Floodwaters coursed through five towns yesterday forcing 2000 persons to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods Stop Easing Of Milk Ration
It would not be possible to ease milk rationing to-day as planned because of the suspension of North Coast train services as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Doomben Sprinters Held Up By Floods
BOOKINGS for Rim Boy, Val Bowl and Hisign to leave for Brisbane last night were cancelled…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Floods Hold Up Transport Of Doomben Sprint Candidates
Several N.S.W. horses engaged at the Doomben Ten Thousand and Cup meeting on July 1 and 8, including Newcastle's Rim Boy, Val Bowl and Hisigu, were to have left by train…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Floods Sever Last Link With Coalfields Pits
Severance by floodwaters today of the Richmond Vale Railway deprived the Cessnock coalfields of their last rail link. As the Hunter floods hit the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Can't Print' What Cleric Thinks Of Maitland's Floods
A South Maitland clergyman, when asked to comment on the serious flooding of his area, said jocularly: "You couldn't print what I think about it"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Precision Reading On Flood Height
A resident of Raymond Terrace got down to a fine point of precision in his estimate of flood water…
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