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Central Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1931

11 stories in Central Coast's papers

Through Floods with a New Ford Truck

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 15

Mr. W. B. Murphy, F.R.M.S., F.R.S.A., recently left Sydney in a New Ford truck, carrying equipment urgently required by St. John's College, near…

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The Deluge Gosford Flooded

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 4

A terrific rainstorm which broke over Gosford in the early hours of Sunday morning last, caused widespread damage in the low-lying…

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Flood Damage on Roads

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 13

The severe storm on Sunday morning did considerable damage to road works throughout the Gosford district and as far south as Woy Woy…

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Hoolewong and the Deluge

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 10

Koolewong received more than a fair share of the torrential rains which invaded the district last week end, and as a result things were not exactly…

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Floods and a Cyclone Gosford District Devastated

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1931 · page 6

The Gosford district appeared to he in the centre of the disturbance which, commencing on Sunday night with sain of almost…

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Floods at Ten[?]

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1931 · page 6

Sunday night's torrenti[?] hail storm left a heavy tol[?] and inconvenience, and one [?] inability of the town drain[?]…

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Blame the Floods

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1931 · page 6

For any shortcomings in this issue of the "Times" readers sis asked to make allowances on account of the floods…

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Last Week's Deluge

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 July 1931 · page 6

Nearly every part of the district suffered in some way as a result of the [?] rains of early last week, which c[?] flooded conditions. Much…

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Storm Damage on Roads Erina Shire Engineer Submits a Little List, Amounting to £2460,--Which Is Not All

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 July 1931 · page 10

Stating that he had not been able to make a complete survey of the whole of the Shire since the recent heavy rains, and that reports from the…

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Spencer A Big Flood

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 July 1931 · page 5

The heavy rain-storm' of early last week was severely felt here, and as a result one of the largest and most devastating floods on record was…

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Gosford's Flood Drainage Shire Engineer's Recommendations Again "Held Over."

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 12 November 1931 · page 2

The Shire Engineer (Mr. A. Colin Morris) recommended at last Monday's meeting of the Erina Shire Council that additional works totalling £435…

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