Minister To Open Flood Warning
The Mayor of Maitland (Ald. Fahey) has completed arrangements for the official opening of the Hunter Valley…
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Floods & storms, 1954
428 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 22
Army Plan For Aid In Floods
Plans have been completed by the Army to assist more effectively in flood rescue work in Maitland and the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drought and Floods Play Havoc with Sheep Flocks
Ewes and new-born lambs are dying from starvation through drought in northern N.S.W., while others are drowning in floods in the north-west…
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The foundation stone of the Wallis Creek flood gates was laid by the then Premier, John Robertson, on Anniversary Day, 1869, amid great celebrations, even the Premier protesting against the burden of having…
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KATMANDU (Nepal), Mon. (AAP): The Nepal monsoonal floods had claimed nearly 1000 victims up to last night. The floods are the worst ever recorded. Floods or…
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A winder range for the Hunter Valley flood warning system was predicted yesterday by the Minister for Conservation (Mr. Enticknap)…
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SYDNEY.—Two Grafton women yesterday interviewed State Ministers in an effort to speed up flood…
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BURNIE, Sunday.—Floodwater spilling from the swollen Mersey River in north-western Tasmania at the…
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TEHERAN, August 22. A.A.P.—More than 1000 bodies of pilgrims have been found at the Moslem shrine of Imam Zadah Davoud, where a disastrous…
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CANBERRA: The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. K. G. Casey) has announced that the…
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MASON CITY (Iowa), August 23. A.A.P.—A Braniff D.C.-3 airliner, warned not to land here because of a violent…
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NEW YORK: A helicopter picked up two volunteer parachutists who lived for 12 days on an Arctic…
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This is the girl around whose waist Colin Tennant had his arm in a picture which has started a row…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rain, Snow, Floods And Landslides in Europe
LONDON, Wed. (A.A.F.).—Floods and landslides are occurring in many parts of Europe as snowstorms and rain continue. Europe was deluged by…
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ATHENS. — The Greek Government donated 25 tons of currants and 15 tons of wine to Austria…
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LONDON, August 25.—"How silly," the Anglican Bishop of Bradford (Dr. Blunt) said when told Free Church ministers had rejected farmers' pleas to pray for…
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CALCUTTA, August 26. A.A.P.—More than a million people in Teesta Valley, north-east India, are threatened by rising floodwaters. India's three great rivers…
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NEW DELHI, Mon. (A.A.P.) — Raging waters swept through vast areas of Northern India yesterday in the worst floods of the century…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Villages Await Flood Fury
LONDON, August 30. A.A.P.—Thousands of people in lower Assam to-day where helplessly waiting to be struck by the full fury of the Brahmaputra…
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WELLINGTON, August 31. A.A.P.-Reuters.—Official announcements about the future of the convicted teenage killers, Pauline Yvonne Parker and Juliet Marion Hulme,…
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