Flood Mitigation Report Soon
The Hunter Valley Conservation Trust is expected next Tuesday to complete its report to the Minister for…
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Floods & storms, 1954
428 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 22
Many Dead in Mexican Flood
NEW YORK, July 1. A.A.P.—At least 59 persons were reported dead to-day in the Rio Grande's most devastating flood in history…
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CALCUTTA, Mon. (AAP)—Twelve thousand people are homeleses following severe flooding in the east…
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SYDNEY: Post-office staffs throughout the Commonwealth have raised £6384 to assist their…
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TOKYO, July 5. A.A.P.—Units of the new Japanese Army were pressed into disaster relief duty to-day as flood waters from torrential rain took at least 28 lives and spread…
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Raymond Terrace Chamber of Commerce will ask civic bodies in the Williams and Paterson Rivers areas to…
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NEW DELHI, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—Fifty people were killed and 500 families left homeless by…
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SYDNEY.—Gifts to the N.S.W. Flood Victims' Relief Fund now total £86,317. The fund was opened…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Flood warnings were issued to-night by the Weather Bureau for the Tweed, Richmond and Clarence River systems…
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Heavy weekend rain has closed eight northern N.S.W. aerodromes. Planes have been diverted up to 100 miles away from the flooded dromes…
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MUNICH, July 11. A.A.P.—Fourteen people have been drowned in Austria and Southern Germany in floods caused by almost unprecedented July rains. In Czechoslovakia and…
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VIENNA, Mon. (A.A.P.): American and Russian servicemen are rowing families from rooftops of flooded houses in many parts of Austria…
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The Weather Bureau's forecast for the Hastings, Hunter and Manning to-day is.— Further moderate rain,…
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BRISBANE: One person is dead, crops have been ruined and hundreds have lost furniture and possessions in the worst series of storms in the history of the coast between…
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Sydney Weather Bureau last night issued urgent flood warnings to North Coast areas from Murwillumbah to Taree. Floods have cut the Pacific Highway between…
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VIENNA, July 12. A.A.P.—Vast new areas of Austria were threatened by floods to-day as the Danube continued to rise. Across the border in East…
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With flood danger growing hourly, hundreds of people in low-lying areas around Lismore and Murwillumbah are stripping their homes, ready to flee at a moment's notice. At Lismore, where the…
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LONDON, July 13. A.A.P—The Danube River, which has been flooding down through Austria for four days, reached a record height in Vienna…
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Hundreds of people have quit homes in flood danger areas of Lismore. All Lismore shops had been cleared of valuable goods last night…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Government will meet the cost of installing radio flood warning equipment in…
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