Race with Bush Fires
Harden, Monday.—Drivers and other train officials as they arrive give bad accounts of devastation from bush fires. The driver of an engine running at 25 miles an hour said that the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1918
159 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 8
Bush Fires at Taralga
Our Taralga correspondent writes:— Bush fires are burning all over the district, and in many instances much damage has been done. The country is still burning, and owing to the…
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The Tribune; reporting the fires in the Yass district, states:— One which proved devastating broke out on some lensed land of Mr. S. Ledger's. It with marvellous rapidity spread…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railways and Fires. To the Editor
Sir.—Kindly allow me a little space to call attention to a piece of callousness on the part of the railway authorities. On Saturday last in that dreadful wind storm a fire (started…
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WAGGA, Tuesday. — Disastrous grass and crop fires swept the district north of Junce, starting near the Junce town boundary, and rapidly…
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A letter from the Board of Fire Commissioners, re the annual estimates, to which Young Council contributes £50 per annum, was before…
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Another bush fire broke out in the district about midday on Wednesday, destroying altogether about 800 acres of valuable grass. The…
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Some landholders - in Yass district are still anxious in regard to bush fires, several of which are smouldering. The suspense and…
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Sir,—As the shortage of water at the present' time leaves the town in a very precarious position I would suggest that, say, a thousand gallon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wallendbeen Fire Brigade
A well attended meeting of the Wallendbeen Fire Brigade was held on Friday. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year…
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A disastrous fire occurred in the heart of Sydney on Friday night, resulting in great damage to property. It broke out shortly after 9 o'clock in the premises of the Crown Studios, in…
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Fires were last week raging in the Marulan and Greenwich Park districts. It is stated that in the latter locality Mr. Donohue lost a sulky, implements. stock, and standing crops…
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Word reached Goulburn on Monday afternoon that portion of the railway platform at Hill Top was on fire. About 50 feet of the platform was badly burnt. Hill Top station was…
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A fire has been raging in the Cookbundoon Range, near Goulburn, during the past tendays. Twice the wheat stacks at Murray's Flats were threatened with destruction. but it…
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In the Braidwood district bush fires are doing in alculable damage. One on the mountains art Jungle. [?]caused great alarm. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Fires Sydney Fire Report. Sydney
The annual Fire Brigade report for Sydney and Suburbs shows that the Brigade had 1770 calls during the year, which is a record, 490 calls…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fires. Queensland Outbreaks
A big fire is reported from Charleville, Queensland. It started at the Ten Mile Gate and is driving everything before it. Large crowds are going out in motor cars to fight it…
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Calls received by the City and Suburban Fire Brigades during the year amounted to 1770. of which very few were serious. The present month has broken all records fo[?]calls, 490…
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At the Young Police Court on Xmas Eye before Hessrs. John Forsythe and R. Rumble, J.'sP., Robert Pettit a young man, was fined £30 or three…
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An outbreak of fire occurred in a store-room at the rear of Messrs. A. M. Hunt and Co[?]spremises in Auburn-street on Saturday night. At 1 p.m. the Fire Brigade received a…
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