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Central Coast · Floods & storms
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Heavy rain which flooded the whole district yesterday afternoon did immense damage. A total of 11.73 inches has fallen at Gosford since Saturday afternoon last when the downpour commenced. Of this total, 6.80 inches fell yesterday and last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →These pictures were taken in pouring rain on Monday afternoon last, which accounts for the poor reproduction, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Saturday afternoon's gathering storm clouds provided a perfect background for these three pretty Terrigal holiday visitors. They are Shirley Parsons, Moira Coleman and Joan Dobson, of Sydney. GOSFORD TIMES PHOTO…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Some isolated afternoon thunderstorms are expected during the next few days but the weather should be mainly fine with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy rain on Saturday caused the postponement of most matches in the Gosford District Cricket Association's competition. Only a few clubs were able to play…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gosford's main streets were flooded nearly all last night by heavy rain which fell continually. A total of 2.94 inches of rain fell during the night and, with 4 points recorded the night before, brings the rainfall for the first 70 days of this year up to 26.82 inches, a record for this district. Serious damage was again done…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gosford District Motor Cycle Club held a commanding lead in the triangular teams' TT (Tourist Trophy) match at Lackersteen Park, Somersby, on Sunday when rain caused the abandonment of the afternoon programme. Gosford was 16 points ahead of the Newcastle-Tamworth team when a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Torrential rain during' the weekend washed out an electric light pole at Erina and interrupted the supply of electricity to the coastal belt between The Entrance and Wagstaff, flooded roads in the Matcham-Holgate area and forced passengers to sleep half the night in a bus and' caused heavy damage to bean crops on coastal farms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All organised district sport was cancelled at the weekend because of the rain. A few golfers, who splashed around the Gosford Victoria Park links in an 18-hole stableford…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A strong southerly gale, which was accompanied by heavy rain, lashed the Gosford district for two days and two nights from Friday last and completely disrupted electrical and telephone services. The district was almost continually blacked-out during the period by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All district sport was again washed out at the weekend by the heavy rain. Details of sport postponed and some arrangements for the decision of the postponed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Torrential rain, which has brought about floods and power cuts, has completely broken down organisation in the Gosford district and in all other parts of the state. This issue of the GOSFORD TIMES, which anticipates the chaos which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oak Road Mailman J. D. Fearnside carries his motor scooter past the boned GOSFORD TIMES motorcycle on a [?] patch on Wednesday last His wife went through a confine [?] last Saturday night because the road was so bad an ambulance was delayed two [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following details of flood relief arrangements were made available for publication yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More than £1,000 worth of clothing has been contributed by residents of the Gosford district for the relief of flood victims in the Maitland and Singleton areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gosford Shire Council is faced with the position that it has urgent flood repair work to do but no money. For more than two hours last night a special…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All maintenance gangs in the Gosford Shire are to be transferred to Woy Woy for the next two weeks to drain areas which are flooded. This was decided at a meeting of Gosford Shire Council on Tuesday after complaints had been made that many areas at Woy Woy were still flood-bound…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Because drainage of flooded areas af Woy Woy has not yet been completed, all Gosford Shire Council maintenance employees will spend at least another two weeks in that area before they return…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girls and boys in the Gosford district donated most of the seven cartons of toys sent by the Gosford Red Cross to children in the Maitland district after recent floods had destroyed hundreds of homes and caused the loss of thousands of pounds worth of personal property. The toys were sent to the Red Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two hundred and seventy points of rain have fallen in the Gosford district since Wednesday. For the 24 hours ended 9 am…
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