Killed When Making a Fire Break
Quite a gloom was cast over our town and district on Wednesday when it became known that Mr Jamas King had received injuries…
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Fires & bushfires, 1929
310 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 16
Disastrous Fire at Numbugga. (From “ Bega District News.”)
Mr W. Bateman, of Numbagga, who lost his home as well as his grass, had a thrilling experience. His wife was in the Private Hospital…
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A meeting of the members of the Boorowa Bush Fire Brigade was held in the Guild Hall. Supper Room on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bush-fires Their Annual Toll Drastic Action Needed
Comparisons at any time are odious, and it is certainly an unpleasant fact in the art of preventing forest fires, to take a lesson from our neighbors…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Township in Danger Disastrous Bush Fires. Sydney
Disastrous bush fires are raging in many parts of Victoria. The town shop of Yallourn is surrounded by flames and the population consisting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Incendiary Fires? Pastoralists Alarmed
Mysterious fires occurred in the Rugby district on Sunday and Monday last. No fewer 18 outbreaks occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mt. Victoria Fires Mt. Victoria
During the last 24 hours all the men available in this town have been fighting bush fires. In some instances the flames were stopped only when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires at Mt. Victoria. Sydney
Serious bush fires are raging at Mount Victoria. Every available man in the district is fighting the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire-fighting Holiday
Mr. S. A. Thornell had an exciting time while on holiday at Tuross Lakes. Throughout the fortnight he spent there bush fires were burning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Binalong
On Wednesday afternoon of last week, a fire broke out on Mr. W. Grogan's property, Illalong. Fanned by a fierce wind, it swept through P…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Careless Use of Fire
At the Burrowa Police Court, on Friday last, Lorne Fenwick was charged with careless use of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grim Fight Fires Near Crookwell Several Properties Endangered CROOKWELL
Landholders, with the assistance of carloads of volunteers from Crookwell, are waging a grim fight against the bush fires,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cartridge Explodes in Fire Breaks Bone in Woman's Hand
Mrs. C. Anderson, of Broadway, Junee, was throwing rubbish into a fire when a cartridge exploded, the bullet striking her on the hand and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blazing Crater Mine on Fire Yallourn Township Menaced MELBOURNE
Serious bush fires are reported from many places in Victoria, and already much damage to property has been done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Sweeps More Than 8000 Acres Day and Night Landholders Fight the Flames
A fire which started on Tuesday on a portion of "Windemere" station, got into the hilly country and transformed the Illunic…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bush Fires at Adelong
Although the lossses caused by the big bush fire in Adelong district were heavy, some remarkable saves of property were affected by the fire-lighters, Among…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Uniteds v. Burrowa. Bush Fires Stop Burrowa Coming
Burrowa was expected here to play the Uniteds yesterday, but were unable to come owing to bush fires in their neighbourhood. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prices Lower Crookwell Stock Sale Bush Fires Affect Market
Bush fires in the district had a marked effect on. W. H. Wheatley's special sheep and cattle saleat Crookwell on Friday. Because…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rain Pate Out Fire
Four boors of steady rain, becoming heavier in the last hour, checked the fires that have been raging in the mountain country around Katoomba…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires Checked Easterly Change Brings Relief Serious Damage Reported
Thanks to the timely arrival of a cool southerly wind the fire fighters in the Goulburn, Crookwell, Taralga and Braidwood districts, ,and the smaller places in between, have received a respite from their labours. On Friday night the position looked very bad and there…
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