Flood Warning Conference
Maitland City Council last night appointed the Mayor (Ald. J. Harvey) and Ald. F. O. Fahey to confer with the manager of Station 2HD (Mr. J. Storey) on an offer…
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Floods & storms, 1952
437 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 22
Scattered Storms
Mr. Cyril Griffiths' forecast for Newcastle and the Coalfields to-day is: Becoming hot, with north-west winds,…
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A beach front north of Port Stephens was swept with gunfire at sunrise today as Citizen Military Force units dashed ashore in an amphibious landing and supporting…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — A farmer found a 19-year-old employee, who had apparently been struck by lightning, lying…
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Woy Woy had 10½ inches of rain in 24 hours last night. Gales and torrential rain caused havoc on the South Coast…
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LITTLEROCK (Arkansas), Sun. (A.A.P.)—The death roll in week-end storms and floods that swept six U.S. southern States has now risen to 225, the American Red…
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WASHINGTON, Tues. (A.A.P.): The Red Cross reported today a survey of the tornado-ravaged south…
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A penstock valve to stop tidal flooding in a drain at Maryville would make the area liable to flooding by stormwater, Mr. J. W. Attwood said last night…
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The main part of the Hunter district still required substantial rain soon to secure winter fodder, the District…
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Kerry Law, winner of the Maiden Qualifying Stake final at Newcastle greyhound meeting on Saturday night, gave…
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NEW YORK, April 8. A.A.P.—The worst Missouri Valley flood in 70 years was predicted to-day as the Missouri, fed by melting highland snows, churned south…
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NEW YORK, April 9. A.A.P.— Thousands of residents of the riverside district of South Sioux City (Nebraska) fled their homes last night before the…
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NEW YORK, April 10. A.A.P.—The Missouri River early to-day burst through the 19ft. main levee bank and poured into the residential section of South Sioux City…
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NEW YORK, April 11. A.A.P.—History's greatest Missouri River flood swept on downstream communities…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Attendants and firemen at the Showground worked for three hours early to-day bailing out…
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Torrential rainstorms flooded out many campers at Gosford yesterday. Nearly 2½ inches of rain fell in Newcastle yesterday. Rivers in the north east of…
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NEW YORK, April 13. A.A.P.—Sioux City, Iowa, braced itself for a major disaster to-day as one of the…
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OMAHA (Nebraska), Sun. (A.A.P.) : The muddy, swirling Missouri River today lapped through the streets of two towns, hastily evacuated by residents in the face of one of the worst floods in the history of seven States…
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OSLO, April 14. A.A.P.— There is little doubt that 77 men perished in five Norwegian seal-hunting vessels…
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NEW YORK, April 14. A.A.P.— Many of the 84,000 citizens of Sioux City (Iowa) were surrendering their homes to the Missouri River to-day as it…
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