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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1955

56 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 2 of 3

Council Keen To Implement Flood Mitigation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 April 1955 · page 5

An assurance that Windsor Council was keen to carry out the flood mitigation scheme prepared for the municipality was given by the Mayor…

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Flood Boats Wanted Colo Valley

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 April 1955 · page 3

REQUESTS for two flood boats to serve the Upper Colo - Colo Heights areas posed a problem for the…

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Flood Relief List Closed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 April 1955 · page 9

At its April meeting the Colo Shire Council decided to close its flood relief appeal at £244/15/-, forward to the…

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River Flood Almost A Major Disaster

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 May 1955 · page 1

Heavy Losses were sustained by lowland farmers in the Windsor Richmond district whose crops were inundated by another week-end flood…

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Resourceful Flood Boat Crew Equal To Costs

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 May 1955 · page 1

SHEER resourcefulness kept the Windsor flood boat (which does by far the greater amount of work at…

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State Member Secured Flood Grants

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 May 1955 · page 13

ALLOCATIONS recently made from the N.S.W. Flood Victims Belief Fund to Windsor Municipality…

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Shire Flood Committee

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 May 1955 · page 3

Colo Shire Council at its! meeting" on Monday formed itself into a shire relief committee, with the…

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Flood Relief Committee "On the Job"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 May 1955 · page 11

ALREADY the flood relief committee, whose appointment was announced in our last week's issue…

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Windsor Gave Help in Flood Area

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 May 1955 · page 10

FROM a Singletom in the Hunter Valley Flood area, comes a letter of appreciation regarding a…

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Member's Query On Flood Aid

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 May 1955 · page 13

In the Federal House recently Mr. Roy Wheeler, Member for Mitchell, asked Mr. Jeff Bate what the…

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Dairymen's Flood Losses And Individual Quotas

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 May 1955 · page 1

An assurance has been given to Hawkesbury suppliers by the Milk Board that production losses due to the recent flood will, on appeal by…

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Flower Show Entries Cut by Flood

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 May 1955 · page 3

Flooding of the Hawkesbury River prevented some of the regular exhibitors from attending the May…

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Committee Makes First Grants Of Flood Relief

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 May 1955 · page 1

A first distribution, of the whole of the £5000 to hand, was made by the Windsor Flood Relief Committee on Monday evening to farmers who had…

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Flood Caused Problems At Shire Ferries

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 June 1955 · page 10

A fairly typical example of difficulties experienced with ferries during even a medium river food was given in verbal reports to the Colo Shire…

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Flood Relief Closing Date

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 June 1955 · page 2

The State Flood Relief Committee has announced] that it has fixed June 10, as the closing date for the…

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Spare Motor For Flood Boats Needed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 June 1955 · page 5

A RECOMMENDATION that the Windsor Council and Colo Shire Council retain a spare engine for the…

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Close Vote On Spare Motor For Flood Boats

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 June 1955 · page 8

Contribution by Colo Shire Council of half cost of a spare motor for the two flood boats was decided on by one vote, at the June meeting of the…

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Flood Mitigation Facts Given In Recent Address

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 June 1955 · page 12

Basic principles for flood mitigation common to all rivers, were listed by a member of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission in an…

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Can't insure For Floods

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 June 1955 · page 7

Reasons why insurance against flood damage will not we accepted by insurance companies from residents of flood…

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Flood Scheme Awaiting Word From Government

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 July 1955 · page 1

Any Windsor Council to implement the flood mitigation scheme for the municipality was still held up pending advice as to what…

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