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Central Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1924

3 stories in Central Coast's papers

Flood Waters

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 5 June 1924 · page 6

The abnormally heavy rains of Monday and afterwards brought the creeks and drains to the banks and overflowing. The water tables which have been…

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Drowned During Storm. Another Hawkesbury Fatality

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1924 · page 8

On 25th September last Walter Herbert Bell, aged 25 years, was drowned in Mooney Mooney Creek, Hawkesbury River, through the…

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Storm-hunting Outback

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1924 · page 16

An interesting paragraph from the diary kept by Francis Birtles on his Ford car journey from the Gulf to Melbourne:— "Met a mob of cattle out…

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