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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
334 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 17
Despite flood difficulties, few mines on the northern coalfields were idle today. Severance of rail connections, however, will make it difficult to clear all coal mined on the South Maitland section…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lake Shire Engineer (Mr. J. W. Webb) estimated that about 60,000 cubic yards of gravel was washed from shire roads last week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The new disaster that has come to the Hunter Valley and the Maitland district in particular must arouse in every citizen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Federal Government will be asked for a £15,000 grant to subsidise a State grant of £15,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No tropical fruits were available at Steel-street markets yesterday. The train carrying supplies from Brisbane was delayed at Gloucester…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Backwaters in South Maitland started to fall slowly last night when wallis Creek floodgates opened with the Hunter River about 25ft. 6in. at Belmore Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floodwaters at Hexham are fast receeding and the out-going tide this afternoon is expected to carry away much of the water still covering the roadway and swampland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cardiff Urban Area Committee had been unable to get flood relief, the secretary (Mr. R. Williams) said last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland City Council last night rejected a motion asking the Government to call tenders for a canal to drain floodwaters from South Maitland, because it meant "going over the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In February, 1950, two men stood on the verandah of a newly-painted farmhouse at Nelson's Plains and looked out over 150 acres of rich farm land. They had just bought the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing is using trucks to carry tropical fruits to the markets from a train held up at Taree by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The backwater flooding at Maitalnd is receding very slowly, some residents claiming today that the water had fallen only six inches from its week-end peak…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Backwater flooding in Maitland fell less than an inch yesterday. The flow through Wallis Creek floodgates to the Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Social Services (Mr. Finnan) is to be asked to inspect the flood devastated farmlands surrounding Maitland with a view to securing greater relief for owner-farmers than they received…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Only substantial financial aid would keep many owner-farmers on the land. Members of Maitland Flood Relief Committee said this in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A storm warning issued by the Weather Bureau in Sydney today gives every indication that the whole North and Upper Central Coast of N .S.W. will now be lashed by gales and torrential rain as severely as in the S.E. corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Damage suffered by the new Hexham bridge during the recent floods was not likely to delay work on the bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The northern cyclone was easing away slightly from Newcastle and the air pressure was rising slowly at 11 o'clock, Mr. Cyril Griffiths…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LISMORE, Friday.—A man and a woman drowned in flood waters on the North Cost to-day. Cyclonic gales to-day lashed the north Coast, forcing scores…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Built as a result of the 1930 flood in Maitland, this concrete wall was rediscovered when work started on the removal of…
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