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Advertising : 224 wordsThe Lower Hunter district has been deluged by the greatest rainstorm experienced for many years, and disastrous flooding has occurred. Large tracts of farm and pastoral lands are submerged, and many families have had to remove to safety. The deluge continued throughout last night, an additional 850 points being recorded at Maitland ...
Article : 337 wordsTorrential rain fell throughout last night, 707 points being recorded to 9 o'clock this morning, making a total of 951 points since Monday ...
Article : 206 wordsWithin two hours at Cessnock this morning, there was a considerable drop in the flood waters. Where water was flowing through ...
Article : 173 wordsThis district is faced with one of the most disastrous floods in its history. Coming at this time of the year, its effects will be most severe ...
Article : 188 wordsThe most serious position is it the Hunter River section, said the State Meteorologists (Mr. Camm) to-day, The proposal of more serious floods ...
Article : 289 wordsThe rainfall here totalled 685 points to 9 o'clock this morning. The water is backing up towards the town ...
Article : 73 wordsThe flood waters at Wyong broke across the railway shortly after 8 o'clock this morning, when a great rush of water came down the river ...
Article : 188 wordspeople living in South Maitland experienced an unforgetable ordeal last night. The water rose rapidly, and numerous houses were completely ...
Article : 388 wordsThe Mayor of West Maitland (Alderman R.L. Pender) made the Town Hall available for people who have been forced to leave their homes ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. George Cridland of West Maitland had a narrow escape from drowning this afternoon, when he attempted to drive a horse and sulky ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is expected the first train through from Sydney will reach Newcastle about 3 o'clock this afternoon. The water is spreading rapidly ...
Article : 57 wordsThe principal assistant engineer of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board, to-day gave an emphatic denial to a report that a pipe ...
Article : 105 wordsThe residents in those parts of the town affected by floods are taking the most serious view of the situation. In Grant-street, Lower ...
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Advertising : 157 wordsThe farmers of Louth Park and Dagworth have put up many gallant, but futile efforts to keep flood waters off their lands. They have striven ...
Article : 259 wordsThe railway lines near Tuggerah have been covered by 4 feet of water. The railway service has consequently been suspended. The North Coast ...
Article : 126 wordsThere was more surface water in the Oakhampton district to-day than residents remember for many years, including the 1913 flood ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Hunter River rose very quickly yesterday, and as stated in last evening's issue, was 26 feet at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The rise ...
Article : 116 wordsOne vast sheet of grey water extends from Darcy's property at East Maitland, across the East Maitland road at Hanks' the low-lying land ...
Article : 643 wordsModerate to heavy rain was recorded yesterday generally over the State, except in the Southern Island districts, and in the south-west and ...
Article : 70 wordsShortly after noon a message from Holwarra stated that the bank was well out of water at Largs, and appeared to be holding well ...
Article : 398 words"It is the highest flood since 1893," said Mr. C. McRac, in reply to a representative of the "Mercury" when asked the position at Dunmore ...
Article : 90 wordsOwing to the water running over the line at Tocal, near Paterson, and between West Maitland and Tolarah, the train from Dungog to West ...
Article : 151 wordsWomen and children who had taken shelter in the rafters of their homes when the Wyong creek rose this morning were rescued by the ...
Article : 79 wordsLast night the bank of Wallis Creek broke on the opposite side, a short distance to the west of the bridge, Several gaps occurred and ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Wed 18 Jun 1930, Page 5
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