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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1956

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Committee To Report On Flood Scheme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 May 1956 · page 1

Raising of finance, and other aspects of the flood mitigation scheme, have been referred By Windsor Council to its finance…

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Farmer’s Scheme to Cut Flood Damage

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 May 1956 · page 3

A canal to Wilberforce from the river bank breakaway on the Freeman’s Reach Road, to relieve flood pressure and…

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Survey to Be Made for Flood Scheme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1956 · page 3

An offer by the municipal engineer to do the flood mitigation scheme survey in his own time, with some assistance…

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Meat Company Staff Helped Flood Victims

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1956 · page 1

AN effort by the Riverstone meat Company’s staff to help those staff members whose homes…

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No Time to Note Flood Readings

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1956 · page 2

COUNCIL staff was too busy at flood time to note river heights, the Mayor of Windsor…

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£1500 Flood Damage In Shire Park

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 June 1956 · page 1

REPAIRS of flood damage . in Macquarie Park, newly acquired by Colo Shire Council, are…

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Burr Not Deterred by Floods

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 June 1956 · page 10

FLOODINGS had little effect on some heavy infestations of Noogoora burr In the district, the…

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Flood Gauges To Be Read

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 June 1956 · page 1

Replying to an enquiry by Colo Shire Council, Mr. Bruce King, Lower Portland in a letter read at the…

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Company Had Hard Task After Floods

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 June 1956 · page 3

SOME further indication of the difficulties of an electricity supply company after floods in a…

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No Motors To Be Put On Flood Boats

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 June 1956 · page 3

COLO Shire Council had been advised against fitting motors to boats used at the ferries in…

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Well Known Flood Boat Captain Resigns

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 June 1956 · page 2

News of the resignation of the captain of the Windsor motor flood boat was received by Windsor Council at its June…

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Windsor Road Flood Signs

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 June 1956 · page 12

A letter read at the June meeting of the Windsor Council advised that D.M.R. had made…

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31-Ft. Flood Adds To District Toll

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 June 1956 · page 1

Rising fast from 17 feet to a peak of 31 ft. 3 ins. at Windsor on Monday, another Hawkesbury flood has ravaged the…

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S a y s Flood Insurance Is Practicable

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 July 1956 · page 1

Operated successfully at Goyernment level in New Zealand for the past 12 years, flood insurance is practicable here, it is…

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Council Could Not Meet Half Flood Costs

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 July 1956 · page 1

He had “no idea” how Colo Shire Council could meet half estimated cost of repairing flood damage in the shire, if the…

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Interim Grants to Help Flood Works

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 July 1956 · page 10

Interim grants to three adjoining councils for more urgent flood damage repairs have been approved by the Minister…

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Flood Gauges At Bridge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 July 1956 · page 10

Replying to a request by Colo Shire Council, the Department of Public Works informed the June meeting…

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Flood Fund Donation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 July 1956 · page 1

A further donation to the Windsor Council’s Flood Distress fund is as follows:– Ae £3/3/-:…

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Flood Effect Evident In Loan Figures

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 July 1956 · page 6

EFFECTS of the series of floods in this district were evident in the abnormally low subscriptions…

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Loan Ban Holding Up Flood Scheme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 July 1956 · page 1

Restriction of borrowing by councils was retarding commencement of work on the flood mitigation scheme within the…

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