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

Fires & bushfires, 1929

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Bush Fires Rage Enormous Destruction Reported Southern Districts Suffer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 2

Bush fires were responsible for enormous damage in southeastern quarters of the State yesterday, the flames leaving a trail of desolation in their wake. Sydney did not escape, the damage in the affected suburban…

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Destructive Fires. Disastrous Weather

The Yass Courier · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 2

The extreme heat that has prevailed for some days past was accentuated yesterday by a gale from the North which blew up dust and…

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Grass Fire

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 3

A fire broke out yesterday afternoon on Mr. W. Worner's property between Demondrille and Nubba, near the railway line. It burned in a…

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Damage at Bigga Fires Break Out Again BIGGA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 2

Bigga's bush fires of last week, which have been in check for the last couple of days, broke out again yesterday and swept…

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Woodstack on Fire Brigade Works in Gale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 2

When the Goulburn Fire Brigade answered a cull to Costley's bakery, shortly after five o'clock yesterday afternoon, about three tons of…

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Bush Fires Reid's Flats' Torrid Week

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 2

To-day the town is enveloped in smoke from the bush-fires that have occurred in various parts of the dictrict…

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Bush Fires Outbreak on New Year's Day

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 7

A fire started from the railway track in the vicinity of Mr. G. R. Barbour's property, "Bell Vale," on New Year's Day before lunch-time…

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Bigga Menaced Disastrous Bush Fire Many Holdings Swept

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 2

On Friday of last week Bigga experienced the worst, bush fire in years and hundreds of acres of pasture were destroyed. On…

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Grass Fire Outbreaks

The Young Chronicle · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 2

An extensive grass fire occurred on Mr. Harry Davidson's property. Millvale and extended to Mr. C. G. Davidson's property before being…

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Fire at Binalong Binalong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon a fire broke out on Mr. W. Grogan's Properly, Illalong. Fanned by a flerce wind, it swept through P. Reynolds…

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Bush Fires

The Yass Courier · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 5

A strenuous week end has been spent by those who were engaged on Saturday and yesterday keeping the bush fires under. One on Moore…

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Bush Fires Near Crookwell

The Yass Courier · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 1

The whole countryside has suffered within the past couple of weeks from serious are outbreak and much damage has been done to fencing and…

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More Fires Yesterday's Outbreaks Homesteads in Danger TARALGA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 2

There were further outbreaks of bush fires at Taralga yesterday, when 1000 acres of grass were burnt at Wowagin, where there…

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Items of Interest Crookwell Bush Fires

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

A message from Crookwell to day advises that the brush fires in that district were well under control. Providing the weather remains calm…

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Fire in Murringo Scrub Country. Spreads Over 7000 Acres. Damage Is Confined to Grass. Stock and Buildings Escape. Beginning a Mystery

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 1

Nearly 250 men fought a fire which, starting in a lucerne paddock on Windermere at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, swept 7000 acres of rough…

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Fire in Mountains Impossible to Subdue TARALGA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4

Bush fires in the Taralga district are now under control with the exception of those raging in the Abercrombie Mountains near the…

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Fire's Toll Braidwood Suffers Badly Extensive Damage in District BRAIDWOOD

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4

Bush fires caused widespread damage throughout the Braidwood district, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake…

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Bush Fires’ Toll

The Yass Courier · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 5

The ‘Eden Magnet’ says:—On Friday the Wyndham police phoned the district coroner (Mr A. I. Nicholson, Eden) that the fire’s toll in that area was as…

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Fire at Harden

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 2

Early on Sunday morning last, a fire broke out in Neill street, Harden, in premises occupied by Mr. Wason, as a general grocery store. When…

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In Case of Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 5

It is very wise precaution for motoristls to always carry an efficient fire extinguisher, properly charged. If the engine catches fire whilst under…

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