Local Flooding Blocks Traffic
Following heavy rain, which fell almost continuously on Monday, rapid…
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Floods & storms, 1962
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Flood -Area Subdivision Rescission Motion Lost On Casting vote
A rescission motion, aimed at reversing a previous decision of the Colo Shire Council to refuse a subdivision application because the land was situated in an area affected by flooding,was…
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Farms in the low-lying parts of Cornwallis and Pitt Town Bottoms were flooded for the second time in two months at the week-end when the river…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Move On Joint Flood Relief Fund
The Hawkesbury Vegetable Growers’ Association has called another public meeting to thrash out its proposal to embrace the Windsor Municipal Flood…
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Water skiers are combining next Sunday to raise funds for flood relief…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Flood-affected Land Subdividers At Meeting
Two subdividers, who had applications before the council, were interested spectators last week when the Colo Shire Council debated, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Relief Will Help Restore Farms
Colo Shire Flood Relief Committee will [?] £1000 of its funds in carrying out…
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More than 150 people attended a public meeting in the Regent Theatre, Richmond, last week when every aspect of the collection and distribution of…
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Windsor Council is to receive a grant of £3450 from the Public Works Department as half cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dam’s Effect on Flood Legal Action Contemplated Public Meeting Decision
The first move in a campaign that may eventually result in legal action being taken against the Water Board was initiated by a public meeting at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Grants to Owner-farmers Should Apply Immediately Says V.G.A. President
The President of the Hawkesbury branch of the V.G.A. (Mr. K. Lewis) has appealed to all owner-farmers who suffered losses in the recent floods to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As Others See Us “Plenty Of Practice At Being Flooded”
Seeing ourselves as we appear in the eyes of others is likely to bring us back to earth with a jolt—or make us feel like giving someone else a pretty severe…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flood Investigation Appeal To Business People For Funds
The committed appointed to administer the fund with which it is proposed to have an engineer carry out an investigation of the Warragamba Dam’s effect on the November flood, will circularise local business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Relief Methods Mayor Replies To Public Meeting Critics Amalgamation of Councils Suggested
A spirited defence of the work of the Local Flood Relief Committee was made by the Mayor of Windsor, Aid, V, W. Gillespie, during last week’s meeting of the Windsor Municipal…
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Donations to the Colo Shire Flood Relief Fund were this week higher than those to the Windsor Fund,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Exhibition Of Flood Scenes
Scenes from the ’61 Flood with be the subject for competition at the February meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Flood Damage Work of Restoration Going Ahead
Work on the restoration of flood damage is still proceeding in Windsor Municipality, and plans are being considered for flood mitigation in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pictures Did Not Depict Flood
Many of the entries in the Hawkesbury Photographic i Society’s competition for a colour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Funds
A donation of £5 by the Croatian Cultural and Welfare Association (Mt. Druitt), and one of £2…
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The Colo Shire Council, at its last meeting, again refused to approve of residential sub-divisions of areas subject to floods…
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