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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms
14 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers
THAT the baby flood experienced in the Hawkesbury District this week was nothing; alarming, and certainly not as bad as some of the Sydney papers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALTHOUGH periodical floods along the Hawkesbury often cause much damage and occasionally loss of life, they have their useful side as they help to fertilise…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A SEVEN hours' struggle against the Hawkesbury in full flood during which only six and a half miles headway was made, and a ten…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After the rainy clay, After the stormy weather. Breaks the gold in the grey, Gold and silver together…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WISEMAN'S FERRY orchardists and gardeners are urging the reconstruction of the Old Northern-road through Dural to Sydney, which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ALTHOUGH the Hawkesbury district experienced a flood this week that did serious damage to growing crops, Sydney papers greatly exaggerated the position into something enormous. One paper reported that the river at Windsor rose over 30 feet in two days and that many people were driven from their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE following is a description of the big f67 flood in the Hawkesbury district. It was published some years ago, and was related by the late John Jarvis, who rescued William Eather, the sole survivor of a family of 12. He was taken from the branches of a tree in an exhausted state…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GREASY mud left on the Richmond-road, near Ricaby Creek bridge, by the flood in the Hawkesbury last week, was responsible for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Do you hear the bracken singing In the pathway of the flood, And the frightened scream of horses in the night?…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"FLOODS on the Hawkesbury!" This headline greets us whenever heavy rains flush the hills which form the catchments of the Nepean, and which ring the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A big flood in the Hawkesbury, its banks did overflow, Submerging all the level land, and places that were low…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WHERE citrus groves in the Hawkesbury district have been submerged by floods to any extent or for any length of time, the apple-root…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE crop loss estimates from the recent flood in the Windsor district are modified by Mr. W. H. Spinks, local orchard inspector. Approximately 200 acres of potatoes, he…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE regular fortnightly meeting of Windsor Council was held on the 22nd instant when the following were present:—The Mayor (Ald. W. H. Dean), and Ald. J. W…
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