Gale Slows Cruiser To 10 Knots
Gale, winds and heavy seas from the south-west forced H.M.A.S. Australia to reduce speed from 18 to 10 knots yesterday…
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Floods & storms, 1950
987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 50
Caution Urged On Hunter Flood Plans
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Government should not announce flood mitigation plans unless it was fairly certain of putting them into…
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Fourteen million acres in Central and North-western New South Wales are affected by flood. The greatest volume of flood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floodgates Close Again
Wallis Creek floodgates closed again last night after having reopened for little more than 24 hours. The Hunter River at Belmore Bridge, Maitland, was rising…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strikes, Floods Cause Big Coal Loss
For the second day there was a coal production loss of about 7500 tons in the north from strikes yesterday. Because of floods there was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Issue Urgent Appeal For Aid To Nor-West Flood Victims
Deaths may occur in some stranded families unless more planes are provided for food dropping in the flooded north-west. Superintendent C. Delaney, of Tamworth, Issued this urgent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fine Weather Raises Hopes Of Flood Victims
With fine weather over the whole of the Hunter Valley and the peak of the floodwaters almost reached at Maitland, conditions for many floodweary people were more promising today than for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Gale In Path Of Warship
As H.M.A.S. Australia increased her speed to 16 knots again yesterday to take advantage of a break in the weather, a message from…
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MACKAY, Wednesday.—Maureen Margaret Thompson, 20 months, of Morugo, near Mackay, was drowned to-day in the flooded…
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Twelve railwaymen, most of them elderly, were rescued after their boat had been swamped in flood water near East Greta Junction yesterday afternoon. They were shivering with cold…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Bonalbo, one of two coastal ships delayed in Sydney with supplies for flood-stricken North Coast areas,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Ruins Home
This house, owned by Mr. E. Waits, of Narrabri, has been wrecked by flood water in the creek at the rear tearing the creek bank away. Only the front will of the house remains…
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MACKAY: Maureen Margaret Thompson (20 months) was drowned when she fell into a flooded creek from a pram wheeled by her eight-year-old brother. The boy had decided to meet their mother who was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schooling Delayed By Floods
The dislocation of normal transport services by the flood had seriously interrupted the teaching of secondary and primary pupils…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rescued From Tree In Flooded River
DUBBO, Thursday.—Leslie John Hunt, 24, of West Dubbo, was rescued by police from the top of a tree in the flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floodgates Likely To Open To-day
The Hunter River at Maitland was falling fairly rapidly last night. Wallis Creek floodgates are likely to open this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Payments For Flood Victims Are Delayed
Although the Maitland Flood Relief Committee had hoped to start making payments to flood victims at its meeting next…
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Work on flood damage at Maitland by A Group of the army as "Operation Noah," will be inspected by G.O.C. Eastern Command…
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LITHGOW, Friday.—Three flooded and abandoned mines adjacent to the State Mine were a danger to the biggest colliery on the Western field, Mr. J. Parkinson said to-day…
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The 16ft. boat which was swamped by waves in the flood-waters at East Greta Junction on Wednesday afternoon was…
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