Jottings on the July Flood
The disastrous week-end of the July flood tried out the district rescue and flood service organisation to the limit — and it came through with…
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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms
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The disastrous week-end of the July flood tried out the district rescue and flood service organisation to the limit — and it came through with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A unanimous decision to ask the Windsor Council to request the Electricity Commissioner for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FULL support of the farmers of the district in their efforts to Slave some effective flood-control…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Following om the heels, as it were, of the July flood, the second general of the district within a fortnight, during the latter part of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SPECIAL arangements are made by the Hawkesbury District Ambulance Service for transport of ill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last week added yet another to tine disastrous sequence of local foods, when the third in three weeks caused fresh anxiety when it began on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Complete farms and bridges wasted away, most other farms, very badly damaged, residents Isolated toy washaways and debris on roads, are all part of a picture of stocking Stood damage In the McDonald Valley described by Mr. B. S. L. Deane, M.L.A., after an adventurous trip into the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CONCERN at the cutting off of ambulance transport facilities for the shire by repeated floods was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →FURTHER stoppages of ferry services, and damage to fittings, by successive floods, were mentioned in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"I never saw seek desolation and devastation, except in the McDonald area in 1949," said fee president in a description to the August meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some general indication of the extensive damage done in various parts the shire toy repeated Moods, as far as could be assessed up to August 6…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →APPRECIATION of the accurate anil informative nature of news broadcasts relating to floods in this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Great inconvenience caused toy telephone services being Interrupted in various district centres during and after floods is the subject of further…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →TWO donations, totalling £550, for relief of flood distress in its area were received by the Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colo Shire Council at its August meeting decided to forward to Windsor Council a letter of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"THE unfortunate people whose homes have once again been devastated by flood must have our…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An official party which visited St. Albans on Sunday to confer with farmers and residents, of the McDonald Valley generally on flood losses were saddened and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →INSTRUCTIONS would be issued for those in charge of the motor flood boats to abide strictly by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME cautious optimism regarding future Government help to mitigate flood losses in the district, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No flood reports would be complete without due praise to the excellent emergency service given…
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