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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

437 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 22

Maitland Flood Channel Backed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 5

A conference at Maitland Town Hall yesterday decided to ask the Premier (Mr. Cahill) to receive a deputation on a proposal that a channel should be cut from Wallis Creek to Howe's Lagoon to relieve flooding at Maitland…

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Cyclone Leaves Trail Of Death In Africa

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 1

JOHANNESBURG, Monday (A.A.P.): Dozens of natives were crushed to death, hundreds injured and 15 people were killed by…

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Flood Repair Exhibition

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 3

ROVIGO (Italy).—An exhibition illustrating reconstruction in the Po Valley, devastated by floods…

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Electric Storms In Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Fierce electric storms disrupted telephone communications and blacked out country towns and…

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Flood Rescue Pilot Fined For Flying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday.—A Broken Hill civil pilot who helped in a flood rescue while his licence was suspended was…

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Japs Flooding to Brazil

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 15

SYDNEY. — Large-scale Japanese migration to Brazil was continuing, said Canadian Pacific Airlines…

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Heavy Damage in Storms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1952 · page 3

Storms caused heavy damage in three areas yesterday. Cyclone: A 70 mile an hour cyclone…

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£2100 More For Flood Works

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1952 · page 9

A further grant of £2100 to Maitland City Council towards the cost of repairing flood damage has been…

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Flood Damage Grant Raised

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 December 1952 · page 4

The Minister for Works (Mr. Renshaw) has increased his original flood damage grant to Maitland City Council to £4600. The council at its last…

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Ceylon Cyclone Deaths Now 23

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 December 1952 · page 1

COLOMBO, Fri. (A.A.P.)—A cyclone and tidal wave which lashed northern Ceylon caused 23 deaths…

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Children Danced In Floodlit Schoolground

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 December 1952 · page 10

The value of dancing, now included in the physical education programme for children, was demonstrated at Stockton Primary School's annual dance last night when…

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Cyclone Kills 31

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1952 · page 3

PARIS, Dec. 5. A.A.P.—Thirty-one people were killed in a cyclone that hit Karikal, in French India…

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Concern Over Building In Flood Areas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1952 · page 2

Newcastle Institute of Town Planning "views with concern" continued building in town and city areas subject to…

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Gale Hits 2 Townships Village in Ruins

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 December 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.—The small, mining township of Acland, on the Darling Downs, looked like a bomb-blasted village after a tornado swept through it late yesterday…

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168 Killed By Indian Cyclone

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 12

MADRAS, Tues. (A.A.P.)—A cyclone which hit Tanjore in the Trichinopoly districts on Nov. 30, killed…

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Airmen Defy Arctic Gale

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 December 1952 · page 2

LONDON. — R.A.F. mechanics stuck to their task of repairing an engine of a Sunderland flying-boat at…

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Gale Helps Race Yawl

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 December 1952 · page 16

SYDNEY, Friday.—Landfall, a Victorian entrant in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, arrived in Sydney at 1 p.m…

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Floods Cut Off Towns In Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 December 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—The flooded Snowy River has isolated the East Gippsland town of Orbost…

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10 Deaths In U.S. Storm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 December 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Dec. 14. A.A.P.—Ten persons were killed in a savage storm which swept New England on Friday…

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Chance Of Storms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1952 · page 2

Mr. Cyril Griffiths's forecast for Newcastle and the Coalfields for to-day is— Mostly fine, sultry and hot;…

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