Flooding Sends Up Coal Losses
Coal production losses through stoppages and wet weather amounted to more than 11,000 tons in the North yesterday. Disputes at six mines caused…
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Floods & storms, 1950
987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 42 of 50
Trust "Will Lessen" Flood Effect
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The establishment of the Hunter Valley Conservation Trust would lessen the disastrous effects of the floods…
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Flood damage was estimated at £25,000 by the Lower Hunter Shire Council Engineer (Mr. W. R. Lindsay) in a progress…
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About 12 homes at Weston were flooded during Monday night's cloudburst, Cr. T. Fell told the Kearsley Shire Council last night. The water in Deep Creek,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Coal Loss From Storm
Disputes and damage by Monday's storm caused a loss of more than 10,000 tons of coal in the North yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Plan "Not Favoured"
An insurance scheme to cover flood damage was not viewed favourably by the Government Insurance Office, the Secretary of the…
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SYDNEY: The Government had given considerable thought to the establishment of a flood damage insurance scheme, the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Floods Increase Public Works At Maitland
The expenditure of £29,838/15/10 at Maitland on public works, including main roads and local funds, up to August 31, compared with an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Relief Request For Cabinet
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Menzies would refer to the Federal Cabinet a New South Wales request for more money for flood…
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SYDNEY.—No sooner had dredging begun to make an impression on silt deposited in Newcastle Harbor by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thunderstorms Forecast For Tonight
Unsettled weather conditions towards evening with thunderstorms developing are forecast by Mr. R. W. Parker…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →20,000 In Maitland Area Await Govt. Action On Floods
More than 20,000 people in the Maitland district were still anxiously awaiting action by the State Government to afford relief from disastrous floodings, the Mayor (Ald. A. S. McDonald) said in an urgent telegram to the Premier (Mr. McGirr) today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rosehill Misses Heavy Rain
SYDNEY, Friday.—A heavy storm at 4 p.m. to-day missed Rosehill race track, and apart from several…
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No reply was received from the Premier (Mr. McGirr) to a second urgent telegram sent by the Mayor of Maitland (Aid. A. S. McDonald)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland Flood Lingers
Lofius-street, Maitland, which is still under six inches of water…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gales Sweep Coasts of Britain
LONDON, Sept. 17. A.A.P.—Gales swept the coasts of Britain last night and continued to-day, causing small ships to race for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some Homes Flooded At Menindee
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Walter was eight inches deep in some of the homes from which people had fled at Menindee, police said to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland Dairy Farmer, Ruined By Floods, Wins £6000
Flooded out 13 times in 15 months, a young dairy farmer from Pitnacree[?]d., East Maitland, was on his way to the saleyards today to sell a cow to "pay a few debts" when told he had won £6000 in the Lottery. The farmer. 30-year-old Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Orcades In 70-mile Gale In Channel: 26 Hurt
LONDON, Tues. (O.S.R.- A.A.P.) Twenty-six passengers were injured—three seriously—when the Orient liner Orcades was battered by a 70-mile-an-hour gale in the English Channel on Sunday. a fleet of ambulances was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1000 Claims for Flood Relief
Additional claims for flood relief would bring the total to more than 1000, the Town Clerk of Maitland (Mr. S. J. Dunkley) said…
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