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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

77 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 3 of 4

Council Wants Flood Signs

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 September 1952 · page 6

To save drivers unnecessary "double travelling" and consequent waste of time when roads were blocked by…

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Premier Invited To Flood Conference

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 September 1952 · page 2

A decision to invite tine Premier he Minister for Public Works to a conference of interested bodies at Windsor on September 9 to discuss…

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Flood Work Commended

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 1

At the September 2 meeting of the Windsor Council Aid. Rudd asked whether letter of…

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Flood 'Phone Services I

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 11

A Mayoral minute submitted by the Mayor (Aid. V. W. Gillespie), that the council express…

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£1700 In Flood Distress Found

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 11

A farther donation of £1000 from the Primary Producers' Union, and one of £15 from the Mayor of Concord (on…

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£700 Flood Grant to Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 5

A GRANT of £700, no half the estimated cost, of repair of flood damage to certain roads in the…

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Flood Boats Conference

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 September 1952 · page 3

A further conference between Windsor Council and the Colo Shire Council, on matters relating to the…

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Council Needs £47,000 For Flood Damage

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 September 1952 · page 1

The grim task of coping with a £47,000 estimate for restoration of food-damaged roads in the shire was…

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Flood Relief Fund Donations

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 September 1952 · page 12

The Hawkesbury Flood Relief Committee has distributed funds made available to it for relief of distress…

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Member Asks For Revision Of Flood Relief Charter

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 September 1952 · page 2

SPEAKING in the House of Representatives Mr. Roy Wheeler, M.P., stressed the need for revising flood…

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Good Work in Floods

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 September 1952 · page 11

A letter had been forwarded to the Police Department expressing Colo Shire Council's appreciation of the…

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Mitigation of Floods (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 September 1952 · page 10

Sir,—To one who has experienced the tragedy of floods in the Hawkesbury, recent moves by the V.G.A. and…

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Conference Asks District Flood Mitigation Survey

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 September 1952 · page 2

A conference of delegates from councils, Government departments, producers' and businessmen's organisations at Windsor "on September 9 unanimously decided to ask tine Premier for a survey and scheme for mitigating the…

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Help Needed by Council: Flood Havoc

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 9

"THE council has a very big programme to face, and outside help is urgently necessary to cope with the…

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Flood Losses: An Unecessary Evil (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 October 1952 · page 10

Sir,—Recently I visited Windsor, and was appalled by the havoc and desolation in the wake of major floods…

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No Extra Flood Grant, Federal Treasurer Says

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 October 1952 · page 3

NO special additional Federal grant would be made on this occasion for repairing flood damage to…

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Lifejackets in Flood Rescue Work

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 October 1952 · page 2

THOUGH the Maritime Services Board held that persons being rescued by flood boats should don…

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Warning Signs During Flood

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 October 1952 · page 6

In reply to several suggestions forwarded by the Windsor Council regarding warning signs on roads in the…

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Flood Relief Not For Businesses

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 October 1952 · page 6

Approval cannot be given to extend the Flood Relief Scheme to cover small businesses, Mr. B. S. L. Deane…

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Flood Boats Conference

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 October 1952 · page 6

Regarding the proposed conference between the Windsor Council and Colo Shire Council to review conditions…

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