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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1963

52 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 3

Flood Boats’ Role in Royal Tour

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 January 1963 · page 10

The flood boats at Windsor and Richmond will be used by the police on Sydney Harbour in March…

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Heavy Rain Brings Flood Scare

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 January 1963 · page 1

Heavy rain, which began last week [?] Tuesday night and continued until [?]hursday afternoon, brought a flood care to the district…

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Flood Warning Message Civil Defence Director Replies

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 March 1963 · page 15

The Director of Civil Defence, Major-General I. Dougherty, has replied to questions from the Colo Shire Council on the issue of a flood warning on…

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Floods Will Not Affect Telephones

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 March 1963 · page 3

Residents in the Cattai North area are not likely to lose-their telephone service again through floods…

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Farmers Hit Again with Floods

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 May 1963 · page 2

Farmers lost tens of thousands of pounds this week when torrential rain damaged crops and later, when low-lying farms were inundated, following the release of water from…

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Sketchy Flood Reports (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 May 1963 · page 2

Sir,-In this day and age the public—and more especially the residents of Colo Shire—are shocked by the…

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Escaped From Flooded Car

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 May 1963 · page 3

The two occupants of a station wagon escaped drowning when their vehicle was washed…

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Further Flood Gives Impetus To Need For Action

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 May 1963 · page 1

With thousands of acres of low-lying land flooded for the second time within a week Friday’s mass meeting to deal with the effect of the Warragamba Dam…

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Critical of “Flood” Meeting (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 May 1963 · page 2

Sir, The Pitt Town “bunger” that ended up a “tom thumb” at least taught us…

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Sympathy For Victims Of Northern Floods

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 May 1963 · page 3

District residents offer their sympathy to those residents in the North Coast areas which have been hit by floods in recent weeks…

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Flood Relief for Farmers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 May 1963 · page 1

The Windsor Municipal Flood Relief Committee will be called together next week to consider applications for relief, said the Mayor (Ald. Gillespie)…

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Water Board Won’t Talk On Hawkesbury Flooding

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 May 1963 · page 1

The Water Board has refused to confer with a deputation from the Hawkesbury Flood Mitigation Committee and local government representatives on…

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Flood Warnings Again

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 May 1963 · page 11

The Civil defence organisation at Richmond went on duty at 6 p.m. following another…

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To Seek Flood Grant

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 May 1963 · page 10

Colo Shire Council will apply for a grant from the Public Works Department to restore…

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Huge Petition To Council On Flooding

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 May 1963 · page 1

A huge petition, containing the names of practically every landowner in Colo Shire…

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Flood Trust Replies On [?]ation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 May 1963 · page 3

The Flood Investigation Trust has forwarded a prompt reply to a request from the Hawkesbury Flood Mitigation Committee that it determine its…

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Flood Warnings Radio Reports Vital

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 May 1963 · page 17

Accurate reports on river levels and the rate of rise during a flood situation were vital to…

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Urgency Motion Floods Common Wealth Problem?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 June 1963 · page 13

An urgency motion for Federal Government aid to finance flood mitigation works was introduced into the House of Representatives recently…

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Shire Flood Warnings 2Ue Suggested for official Broadcast

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 June 1963 · page 6

A recent meeting of Civil Defence Warden at Wilberforce agreed to ask headquarters to…

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Flood Relief Conditions Loans For Rain Damage

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 June 1963 · page 11

As a special consideration the State Government has approved of extending the conditions of the special low interest loans For flood relief, to include rain…

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