Traffic to Be Resumed Flood Waters Recede on the Maitland Line
WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday. -- Flood waters on the South Maitland railway line have subsided to such an extent that passenger traffic is to be…
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Soldiers Will Drag Flood Victims From Their Homes Many Families Living on Roofs Refuse to Leave Although Lives in Danger Disease Still Spreads in U.S.A. Memphis (U.s.a.)
The Secretary of Commerce (Mr. Hoover) arrived on Monday as President Coolidge's representative, to direct the relief work for 100,000 homeless…
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DURING the height of thfe cyclone which ragas over sydsey last wook Mary Le Tonge, 60, was knocked denn by a [?]otor car in…
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The steamer Baron Ardrossan, which was forced to slip her anchors while in Port Kembla harbor during the recent gale, called here on her way…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mr. Willis Stays on Refuses to Resign Office Lull After Storm
The Vice-President of the Executive Council, Mr. Willis, refuses to resign from the Ministry. It is now believed that no definite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mad Native Sleeping Mate Murdered "Ghost in Fo'c'sle" Terrible Dram of Sea in Howling Gale
When the London Missionary steamer John Williams was being tossed about in the howling gale off Barrenjo[?] a week ago [?]oauru, a Gilbert Islander, suddenly became demented In the blackness of the night he crept to the bunk of another…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Battered Roads After-the-storm Survey Immense Damage Many Favored Plages Still Out of Reach
The Touring Department of the N.R.M.A., in this week's bulletin, reports that an after-the-storm survey of the roads within easy motoring distance of Sydney shows that immense damage has been done…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →State of the Roads Storm Wrack Some Routes Still Impassable Washouts : Fallen Timber Many Changes Nearer Sydney
THE Touring Department of the N.R.M.A., in this week's bulletin, reports that an after-the-storm surcey of the roads within easy motoring distance of Sydney shows that immense damage in the aggregate has been done by the downpour…
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The chief searvtqry to-day [?] a sta[?] that rs[?] had been ref[?]ped by his d[?]…
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GOVERNMENT officials having endorsed the scheme, preparations are now being made to cut levee of the Mississippi and so save New Orleans from the floods. The conditions on which permission was granted are that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flow of Eloquence About a Flood
I READ your officer's report with particular disgust. for In m[?] "pinion a more evasive epistle of theoretical conjuring and terms[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Flooded Farmers Blame Govt. Blundering Forster Dredging Waters Banked Up Forster
THE floods caused by the recent gains gave an illustration of the futility, and even danger, of the methods of the Works…
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Estimates to-day of the dead in the flood-stricken area varied from 200 to 500. Refugees in newly-inundated sections of Mississippi Arkansas, and Louisiana swelled the ranks of…
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The name Mississippi is derived from the "Missi Sipi" of the Algonkin tribes of North American Indians, which means literally "Father of Waters." There is a tendency…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hunter River Floods. West Maitland
The proposal of the Works Department to close the south channel of the Hunter River, as part of the scheme for the construction of a floating dock near Walsh Island, has caused…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Flood Damage. Newcastle District. Appeal for Drainage System
The Parliamentary members for Newcastle, Messrs. D. Murray, H. Connell, G. Booth, and W. J. B. Skelton, Ms. L.A., and Mr. J. Estell, M.L.C., introduced to the Premier yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Money Wasted Futile Dredging Work What Floods Did Forster
The recent floods showed the futility of the sand dredging operations in the channels of Forster Harbor, which have been carried on for over 30 years…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →£50,000,000? U.S. Flood Losses 200 Negroes Drown 5000 Abandon Farms Memphis (Tenn.)
Official estimates of the flood losses along the Mississippi run from £40,000,000 to £50,000,000. An aeroplane returning from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Premier to Visit Newcastle Effects of the Floods Schemes for Relief
THE PREMIER will visit the Newcastle district on Saturday as a result of the deputation received by him yesterday relative to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oyer 150,000 Homeless Through Floods -- Heavy Death Roll Cities in Dike Need Thousands Are Starving Frantic Appeals for Food Memphis, U.S.A.
Estimates of the dead in the flood-stricken area varied to-day between, two hundred and five hundred. Over 150,000 are homeless. In a statement issued from a steamer…
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