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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1926

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Bush Fires

The Yass Courier · Thursday 18 February 1926 · page 2

Bush fires have been a trouble in Yass district. On Monday last a fierce one was in vogue near “Voolg[?]lo, but was got under after much…

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Bush Fires in Victoria

The Yass Courier · Thursday 18 February 1926 · page 6

Disastrous loss of life baa attended the extensive bush fires in Victoria. So far as has been ascertained, 32…

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Bush Fires at Braidwood

The Yass Courier · Thursday 18 February 1926 · page 5

The bush fires to the east of the town are coming in closer to the settled areas. At the end of last week the fire which started near…

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Burnt Out Gunning Settler's Loss Fire Near Frankfield GUNNING

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 February 1926 · page 6

This morning a small house about a mile and a half from Gunning, on the Collector Road, was destroyed by fire. Fortunately the occupants…

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Bush Fires at Roslyn Camp and Houses in Danger Man Bitten by Snake while Fighting Flames

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 February 1926 · page 2

Lives and property were endangered by a bush fire which broke out near Roslyn on Wednesday afternoon and swept…

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Victorian Fires

The Yass Courier · Thursday 18 February 1926 · page 5

In reference to the disastrous fires in Victoria, the “S.M. Herald” says : —A death roll of unhappy magnitude has been added to the other tolls…

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Fires Still Raging In Federal Territory Commission Checks Flames QUEANBEYAN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 February 1926 · page 6

Bush fires are still raging in the Federal Territory, but all fear of danger appears to be past as the outbreaks are confined to the unsettled…

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Stud Rams Burnt Bush Fires Near Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 February 1926 · page 8

A pastoralist lost stud rams worth £3000 in a deva[?]ting bushfire at Milong, states a message from Young. It is estimated that 20,000 acres of grass…

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Blaze at Gunning Settler's House Endangered Careless Traveller Gaoled GUNNING

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 February 1926 · page 8

The outbreak of fire on Wednesday morning in which Mr. F. Rudd's house on the Collector Road was totally destroyed was followed by…

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Eighty-five Children Homeless Victorian Fires Toll SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 February 1926 · page 8

A Melbourne message says that all persons who have been reported as missing in consequence of the bush fires are now accounted for…

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Goulburn's Water Fire Brigade Makes a Test

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 February 1926 · page 4

The Goulburn Fire Brigade turned out on Tuesday night for the purpose of testing the water pressure on Wheatley's Hill…

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Roslyn Fire Trail of Desolation Men Who Had Narrow Escapes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 February 1926 · page 4

An area of over 10,000 acres, most of which represented good grasslands was destroyed by the Roslyn fire on Wednesday…

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Bush Fires. WAGGA

The Yass Courier · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 3

Reports from Tumbarumba state that a serious fire is burping in that district. The fire, the report sta[?], is…

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The Bush Fire Fiend

The Yass Courier · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 3

The year, though still young, is already memorable in Victoria’s annals (says the Melbourne “Age.”) The bush fires that have been…

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Sequel to a Fire

The Yass Courier · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 1

At the Gunning police court on Thursday, before Messrs. Haz[?]y and G. E. Ardill, Js P., a man named Frank Hudson was charged with…

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Generous Australians Bush Fires Relief MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1926 · page 6

The bush fire relief funds now total not much short of £100,000. It is reported that bush fires are raging in the Tooma district close to…

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Bush Fires Raging Tumbarumba District Swept Hundred Miles of Flame WAGGA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1926 · page 6

Five separate bush fires are raging in the Tumberumba district. One broke out at Bago and others are at Budong, Granite Hill, Maragie Forest…

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Forest Fire Checked Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1926 · page 2

A message from Wagga states that about 300 points of rain which fell along a 25 miles front at the fire on the Bargo State forest stopped the…

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Bush Fire Victims Scheme for Rehabitation

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 1

The sub-committee of the Victorian Cabinet is designing a scheme for the rehabilitation of the sufferers in the disastrous bush fires…

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Stove on Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 4

Shortly after 7.30p.m. on Thursday a fire occurred in the kitchen of the Monaro dining-rooms, the stove chimney catching alight and igniting…

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