Heavy Damage Caused By Fierce Storm
A FIERCE storm on New Year's day caused severe damage to roads and crops in the Colo area…
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Floods & storms, 1954
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Heavy Storm
A heavy storm, accompanied by high winds, swept over the district last night. Between 7.30 p.m. and 10…
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Drawing attention to the extensive damage to roads in the Colo area by a recent severe storm, Cr. Ward at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Condition Of Flood Boats
After Cr. Smith had asked at the January meeting of the Colo Shire Council that a check be made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Safety in Flood for Ferry
A DANGER of losing the Sackville Ferry punt in the event of a flood, through lack of ropes and anchor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rapid River Rise Causes Surprise Flood
The most sudden rise in tike Hawkestary River Sim recent history resulted in another flood in this district tine early hours of Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Boat Transport For Injured Man
A Wilberforce resident injured in a car accident on Monday was transported across the Fiver toy on Ms way to Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finance Next Question In Flood Scheme
Now that the survey for flood mitigation purposes had almost been completed by an engineer, the next question, that of finance, would be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmers Asked To Keep Records On Floods
Forms to be completed by farmers in the Windsor-Richmond area willing to note flood details, including behaviour of the water and damage…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Flood Survey Report Within A Few Weeks
A report based on months of pains-taking survey work, on steps to be taken towards mitigating effects of "nuisance" Moods in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Relief Fund Open
In response to a request by the Lord Mayor of Sydney for shire help for his Flood Relief Fund for North Coast…
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When the March meeting of the Colo Shire Council was informed by the engineer that damage in the Colo area from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Boat Missing
During the recent flood the Colo flood boat, temporarily in use at the Sackville Ferry, broke away, with two oars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poor Shire Mail Services In Flood Periods
Better arrangements for mail services in some parts of the shire during flood periods are being asked by Colo Shire Council in representations…
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We have been asked to advise district farmers who are having trouble in the matter of flood relief to get in touch…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returning Of Flood Boat
A request that the flood boat he returned to the Colo area, where Mr. T. Hulbert was prepared to take charge of it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Freak Storm
An out-of-season thunder storm swept over the district last Friday afternoon. Although it had every…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Want Publicity For Floods
That the Colo Shire Council consider appointment of a competent publicity officer to put before the public more…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Flood Survey Report Released By Local Committee
The very comprehensive and eagerly-awaited report on the painstalking food-mitigation survey carried out over many months in this district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Startling Result Of Flood Area Soil Analysis
The startling fact that for most of the soils on the lowlands downriver from Richmond, the salt status in the surface soil is too high for normal…
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