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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms
22 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 2
FOLLOWING upon the remarkable weather experienced during the week-end tropical conditions developed over Windsor on Tuesday afternoon, and a torrential downpour of rain occurred, 80 points falling in ten minutes. PARTS of the town were under water to a depth of several inches, while the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FULL OF HIGH spirits and laughter, a party of four girls and four boys, merrily set out on a boating trip at Tuggerah Lakes on Tuesday night. Early on Wednesday morning the boat drifted bottom up into shallow water. Five of the party were clinging to it. The other three had been drowned—one…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A GLOOM was cast over the district on Saturday when the news of the tragic death of Nurse Monica Mason became known. The deceased was the only daughter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE CYCLONE which swept over most of the State last week-end did not do any considerable damage in the Windsor district. Some of the low-lying spots were flooded, and a few farmers lost big crops of vegetables. The majority, however, lost nothing, and will be gainers by the flood in the way of enriched…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE CATTAI district suffered more severely than perhaps any other portion of the Hawkesbury during the recent downpour and the succeeding flood…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →IN a detailed report to Colo Shire Council on Monday, the engineer (Mr. T. W. Spencer) disclosed a pitiful picture of the damage done in the Macdonald River…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →DURING the recent heavy rains much damage and inconvenience was suffered by the residents of North Richmond, owing to a railway culvert, adjacent to the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AS REPORTED in previous issues of this paper, serious damage was caused by the Easter floods to roads, bridges and wharves, in the Macdonald River…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE WARDENS of St. James' Church, Pitt Town, have decided to keep up the 60th anniversary of the big Hawkesbury flood of 1867, at their Annual Reception to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tis sixty years since"— yet a remarkable number of Hawkesbury stalwarts vividly remember those days. The Rev. Charles Dunstan, Rector of Bondi, will be in…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE WARDENS of St. James' Church, Pitt Town, are to be congratulated on the unique function which they arranged in the old Macquarie School Hall, Pitt Town,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Among other visitors to Pitt Town for the. Flood Anniversary last month were a number of Past-Presidents and Councillors of the Royal Australian Historical Society…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEXT THURSDAY, September 1st, is strictly the last day for sending in copies of the Flood Stories, which juniors and seniors are now no doubt busily getting…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →FLOODS of the Hawkesbury River at Windsor have been part of man's experience ever since the first farmers came and settled the rich alluvial flats along its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FLOODS in the Windsor district come at all seasons, and have been known to occur in almost every month, although the- winter months, May, June and July are the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →REV. STANLEY HOWARD, M.A., of Pitt Town, in conjunction with the Royal Australian Historical Society, who recently arranged a competition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,-I notice in the issue of last week's "Gazette" an article dealing with the flooding of the Hawkesbury. It is good to know that this subject is at last being…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE DECREASE in the number of floods experienced at "Windsor of late years seems rather to be a factor of the decreasing rainfall than to be due to dam…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN 1867 there was a great flood. The water came up to St. James' Church, Pitt Town. A little wattle tree stands on the spot that it came to. A number of houses…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →TN the month of June, 1867, the Hawkesbury was inundated by the biggest flood ever known. Two families living on the lowlands of…
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