Towns in North get flood warning
The Weather Bureau last night issued flood warnings to towns in…
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New Flood Threat Facing Maitland
A cyclone, sweeping along the central coast of N.S.W., is threatening to cause floods in every river between the Macleay and the Nepean. MAITLAND, which last…
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A SPECIAL Eastern Command order was issued today by Lieut.-Gen. F. H. Berryman commending the work…
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WITH the Hunter River swirling in high flood, and rising at the alarming rate of a foot an hour, Maitland is in imminent danger of repetition of the disastrous floods which inundated the…
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A SPECIAL Eastern Command order was issued today by Lieut.-Gen. F. H. Berryman commending the…
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WITH the Hunter River swirling in high flood, and rising at the alarming rate of a foot an hour, Maitland is in imminent danger of a repitition of the disastrous floods which inundated the…
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A SPECIAL Eastern Command order was issued today by Lieut.-Gen. F. H. Berryman commending the work…
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A cyclone, sweeping along the central coast of N.S.W., is threatening to cause floods in every river between the Macleay and the Nepean. MAITLAND, which last…
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LARGE gangs of workmen, filling sandbags in a dramatic race against time, have given Maitland a 30 hours' reprieve from the threat of a major flood. When the first crest of the floodwaters passed…
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LARGE gangs of workmen, filling sandbags in a dramatic race against time, have given Maitland a 30 hours' reprieve from the threat of a major flood. When the first crest of the floodwaters passed…
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A SPECIAL Eastern Command order was issued today by Lieut.-Gen. F. H. Berryman commending the work…
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Rough seas and a track which rain had made impassable yesterday cut off Kurnell. The Cuonulla-Kurnell bus…
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SHANGHAI, Wednesday.--10 Shanghai's worst storm for years yesterday killed 29, injured 23. and rendered 200,000…
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SHANGHAI, Wednesday.--Shanghai's worst storm for years yesterday killed 29, injured 23, and rendered 200,000…
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SHANGHAI, Wednesday.--Shanghai's worst storm for years yesterday killed 29, injured 23. and rendered 200,000…
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MAITLAND, Tuesday.—Council men have been working feverishly to throw up a barrier of earth and sandbags at Jenkins Dam, about a mile from Maitland, where the main…
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TOP: Hunter River breaking through its bank at Jenkins Dam, Oakhampton, scene of last month's disastrous breakthrough. BELOW: Mrs. L. R. Turner, one of many Maitland people who left their homes, watches furniture…
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Heavy rain and impassable roads in the Maitland district have prevented volunteers from finishing the distribution of…
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MAITLAND, Wednesday.--Danger of flooding has eased at Maitland, and families have returned to their homes in low-lying areas…
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Carrying lanterns and torches, more than 100 families last night waded from their flooded houses and farms along the Manning River flats, near Taree…
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