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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1964

72 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 3 of 4

Mayor Gives Views On Flood Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 July 1964 · page 1

Some misunderstandings which appeared to exist in relation to the proposed conference on flooding in the Hawkesbury Valley were the subject of…

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Top Artists in Flood Concert

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 July 1964 · page 2

Some of Australia’s top entertainers and artists will be appearing in the Variet Concert to be held…

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Hyacinth Scattered By Flood

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 July 1964 · page 19

A considerable amount of water hyacinth had been lifted and scattered by the…

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Praise for Flood Workers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 July 1964 · page 9

High praise for the work done during the flood by voluntary organisation, the armed…

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Premier Invited To Flood Conference

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 July 1964 · page 1

“The forthcoming conference on flood mitigation was so vital to the future of the Hawkesbury Valley that the Premier should be invited to…

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A Storm-water Channel ! (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1964 · page 2

Sir,—Regarding the Hawkesbury floods, your readers might appreciate an excursion into recent…

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Damages Claim Flood of Legalities

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1964 · page 3

Progress in the Supreme Court action, McLachlan v Water Board, which is being backed…

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Compensation For Flood Losses (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1964 · page 2

Sir.— From June 11 to 16, 1964 the Hawkesbury Valley was inundated by a flood as big as that of…

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Better Flood Phone Service Wanted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1964 · page 16

The P.M.G. Department has been asked to ensure an uninterrupted telephone service in the…

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Flood Helped Case For Bridge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1964 · page 18

The recent flood had further bolstered the case for the proposed bridge over the Grose…

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Shire Prepared To Act Alone On Flood Boats

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1964 · page 15

Colo Shire Council should institute its own flood boat service to ferry residents across the…

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Nth. Richmond Flood Heights

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 August 1964 · page 5

The lack of regular information on river heights at North Richmond during the June 13 flood has…

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Out of Flood Reach?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 August 1964 · page 1

Two major floods within two and a half years have set many people about “shifting house.” This cottage, which belongs to the Hawkesbury Dairy and Ice Society., Ltd. at Windsor, was last week shifted out of a hollow on to this new site near the factory which may be seen on the left of the picture. The floor will now be several feet above the 1961 flood level. Contractors this week plan to raise the home…

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Flood Conference Baulkham Hills To Send Delegates

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 August 1964 · page 1

“There’s no suggestion whatsoever that Baulkham Hills Shire Council will not be sending delegates to the flood conference at Windsor on August 28,”…

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£6,190 in Flood Relief

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1964 · page 5

A small residue in the Windsor Municipal Flood Relief Fund will be distributed soon…

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Flood Height Was Wrong

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1964 · page 16

A lean on the flood gauge at Windsor Bridge had caused an error in the peak level recorded…

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Intention Was To Form Flood Mitigation Authority : M.H.R.

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 August 1964 · page 1

The intention of a public meeting at Blacktown in June was to from a flood mitigation authority, not a county council…

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Nine Councils Meet at Windsor Flood Mitigation Report Must Come First

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 September 1964 · page 1

Delegates from nine councils concerned with flood mitigation in the Hawkesbury - Nepean river system at a conference on Friday at Windsor…

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Objects To Flood Signs

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 September 1964 · page 18

A Clarendon farmer has objected to signs reading, “This area subject to flooding,” which…

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Urgent Flood Works Can’t Wait

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 September 1964 · page 13

Flood restoration work in two sections of the Hawkesbury River bank is so urgently needed that the Windsor Council cannot afford to wait for a…

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