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Central Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1927

11 stories in Central Coast's papers

Three Young lives Lost Storm Tragedy on Tuggerah Lake

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 14

The fatal boating trip of a number of young people on Tuggerah Lake during the holiday season, the pathetic results of which shocked the country and…

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Damage by Floods

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 10

The recent heavy rains did a lot of damage to roads and bridges, and our settlers have had enormous damage done to orchards and cultivation…

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Storm Effects

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1927 · page 12

There was a washaway in the line at the 40-mile peg, near Woy Woy, on April 16, which, until it was repaired by a relief gang, caused anxiety…

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Storm Water Damage Plight of Gosford People

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1927 · page 4

At the meeting of Erina Shire Council on April 26, a petition was presented, signed by ratepayers in an area of Gosford in which serious damage to…

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Woy Flooded District Suffers Severely

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1927 · page 5

According to residents of long standing in the town, Woy Woy Las never experienced anything in the weather line like Easter week. The town was…

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Ourimbah Creek the Flood

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1927 · page 4

In common with other parts of the Shire, this locality suffered severely at the Lands of the flood, which, is said to be the most destructive in the…

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E Riding Flood Damage

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1927 · page 13

Cr. Pinkstone informed the Council meeting on April 9:— Ganger Craft has reported the following matters which require urgent…

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The Entrance Flood Results

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1927 · page 4

Flood waters are, at time of writing, (end of April) subsiding here, but have caused, among other things, great inconvenience to the local launch…

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Flood Damage

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1927 · page 12

The bridge on the Woy Woy-Gosford Road, at the foot of the big hill coming into Woy Woy, was washed out of position by the recent rains, and…

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Erina Shire Flood Relief. £500 Granted; More Perhaps

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 8

Mr. J. McCarthy, President of Gosford Branch, A.L.P., has handed us the following letter to Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., from the Local Govt. Dept.,…

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The Big Flood (Published by Arrangement.)

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 7 July 1927 · page 15

According to a compilation printed in the "Herald-Tribune" (New York) "the net result of national Prohibition has been to increase the annual per…

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