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Central Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1918

3 stories in Central Coast's papers

Queensland Cyclone

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1918 · page 6

A relative writing to Mr. Arthur Golding, of Gosford, gives a graphic description of the destruction to property and deaths of residents…

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The Terrible Cyclone at Inni[?]fail

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1918 · page 6

Writing from Innisfail (Queensland) Mr S. K. Page, manager of Burns, Philp & Co's large branch in that town, fives the following actual facts, in…

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In the Old Days. The Hawkesbury Flood of 1857

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 13 June 1918 · page 4

The EMPIRE, a paper published in Sydney and founded by the late Sir Henry Parkes, gives the following interesting account of the Hawkesbury…

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