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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 50
Broken-hearted farmers from Phoenix Park (Morpeth) and Swan Reach (Hinton) said today that floodwaters from the Hunter River, which swept over their properties late yesterday and early last night ruined crops worth from £30,000 to £40,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floodwaters which broke through the embankment at Pitnacree today, covered the Newcastle road at East Maitland for about 150 yards in two places. Police were stationed at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Beaches Liaison Committee moved last night to floodlight Nobbys Beach. The committee asked the City…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A special train, a road grader and a raft were used to make flood rescues to-day. A special train was sent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Works Committee of Maitland City Council has authorised the removal of old floodgates at Wallis Creek and adjacent levee…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY: One man is believed to have drowned in the rapidly rising Namoi River at Narrabri yesterday and two others were rescued after their sulky was swept away in a flooded creek…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Friday.—Almost the entire population of Alpha, a small town in the central west of Queensland,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—One man is believed to have been drowned in north-western New South Wales floods this week. He is Stanley Skinner, 65 of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Hunter River is falling faster than in recent floods. This is believed to be due to the tact that the water has a better…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floodwaters in most north-western and central N.S.W. towns are receding again and residents have taken advantage of the temporary respite to repair damage. In Kempsey the 1888 annual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P.): Fresh snow fell on the hard-hit cities of north-eastern United States today as deaths in one of the nation's worst storms passed the 100 mark…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: The flood danger has eased at Warren, where an R.A.A.F. plane yesterday dropped 10,000 sandbags to prevent the Macquarie River from entering the town. The sandbags were used to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY: Floods and the wharf hold-up will cause higher prices and shortages of some essential foods this week. Meat will be scarce and dear, potato deliveries delayed and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Two men were killed and one critically injured when a 55ft. section of an old wireless mast was blown…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Nov. 27. A.A.P.—Two hundred people are now known to have died in the terrific hurricane and blizzard which swept eastern areas of the United States at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): Many thousands of men and machines labored today to cut through the snow blockade and repair damage, caused by storms in the north-eastern quarter of the United States. The count of dead rose to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—New floods threaten towns on the Barwon and Darling rivers as the Queensland floods move south into New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Cyril Griffiths's forecast for Newcastle and the Coalfields for to-day is: Fine, warm and sultry with north-westerly to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Nov. 28. A.A.P.—The count of the dead in the week-end storms rose to 229 to-day, and damage ran into millions of dollars. Some estimates put the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Children played in the water as they-would at the seaside when Narrabri was flooded and bright sunshine, the first for some time,…
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