Roads Cut by Floods
Floodwater yesterday cut more roads in the Hunter Valley and North. Late yesterday, the New England Highway was closed…
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Floods & storms, 1952
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Visitors Help Flood Fight
Three visitors who went to Maitland yesterday to see what the flood position was finished by filling sandbags to prevent the overtopping of the protective bank behind the business centre in High-street…
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Last night flood water at East Greta Junction was rising slowly but had levelled off near Morpeth. With falls in river heights from the Upper Hunter it was felt that the crisis had passed…
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Despite flooding in the district arrangements are proceeding at Singleton for the State's biggest cadet camp. Most of the first of 2500 cadets will march into the…
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Maitland's Town Clerk (Mr. S. J. Dufikley), who took his bed-roll to Maitland Town Hall when the flood crisis…
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Because of the flood position at Maitland, the Magistrate (Mt. F. R. Wood, S.M.) could not attend the usual…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Aid Sought
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Representations for Common wealth relief for flood victims in the Hunter Valley was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flooding Leads To Special Coal Lift
Output of mines on the Cessnock coalfields is being brought to Hexham by an emergency lift over the Richmond Vale Railway because of the cutting of the South Maitland Railways line by floodwaters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Cut Line To North: Buses Tranship Rail Passengers
Passengers for the north and North Coast are being transhipped by buses between Tarro and East as the railway Sines are submerged at Beresfield…
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There was no lack of volunteers in Maitland yesterday afternoon as a grim battle was waged to hold back the rising flood water which threatened to inundate Maitland as the river rose to bank level behind the main shopping centre in High-st. They supplemented the great work done by the City Council staff to bolster the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£12,000, Plan To Ease Floods In Hunter Valley
SYDNEY: Since 1948, the Hunter Valley was unfortunate in having more floods than would be reasonably expected in a normal four-year period, a Public Works Department engineer said today. He was commenting on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sparrows' Nest Flooded Shop
LONDON.—Sparrows built their nest in an overflow pipe above an Ipswich gown shop…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Eases at Maitland Rail Repair Gangs Ready
Conditions were much more reassuring at Maitland late last night, when the Hunter River had fallen below 31 feet and there was no rise in the backwater south of Maitland proper…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dash Into Flood To Save Son
A FATHER walked three miles through floods at Wallalong yesterday to get aid after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Overflow At Hexham
This scene from the railway-gages at Hexham shows flood water covering the land and isolating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Flood Loss £100,000
Flood losses in crops and pastures in the Lower Hunter could be conservatively estimated at £100,000, the Town Clerk of Maitland (Mr. S. J. Dunkley)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Dog in First Race Win
Super Indian, who was presented to Mrs. D. Wilson, of Maitland, after, she had taken charge, during the 1950…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Letter Box Maitland Flood
Why suppress the truth about the Maitland flood? All the talk about the height of the river was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm On UK Arms Expected
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—Fresh storms within Britain's Labor Party…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cabinet Storm On Hint Of Postal Increases
CANBERRA: Public resentment at forecasts by the Postmaster- General (Mr. Anthony) of higher postal charges is likely to lead to a storm in Cabinet and among private supporters of the Menzies Government…
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