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

Fires & bushfires, 1936

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Fire Commissioners Nine Nominations For Vacancy

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 May 1936 · page 2

The following nominations have been received for the election to fill the vacancy on the Board of Fire Commissioners as representative of…

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Fire in Warehouse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 June 1936 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A fire broke out on the top floor of the warehouse of J. A. D. Gibson and Co., Ltd. Kent Street, City, about 3 o'clock this…

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The Bushfire Fighter Young's Request at P. P. Conference Protect Volunteers

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 June 1936 · page 1

The annual conference of Pasture Protection Boards, at Sydney on Wednesday of last week, resolved to take up the…

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Big Fire At Byron Bay

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 June 1936 · page 3

BYRON BAY, Tuesday: A disastrous fire occurred in Byron Bay this morning, involving the destruction of the Great Northern Hote…

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£10,000 Fire

The Young Chronicle · Friday 12 June 1936 · page 2

The Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay, the 35-years-old two-storey wooden building, and two shops were destroyed by fife early on Tuesday…

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Directors Impressed With Gas Fire Seven Heaters to Be Purchased for Hospital

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 June 1936 · page 2

Following a suggestion that electric radiators be used in the private wards at the hospital for which the Commission will pay the cost of…

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Safer Flying Anti-Fire Liquid

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 June 1936 · page 8

LONDON: After months research British scientists have conquered the bogey of the air lines—fire…

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Fire Board Alderman Griffen Elected

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 June 1936 · page 2

Ald. Martin Joseph Griffen, of Bathurst, has been elected to the vacancy on the Board of Fire Commissioners, caused by the death of…

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T.N.T. Dried By Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 2

A Lerwick, Shetland, fisherman is thinking hard about a night last week in which a lump of strange creamy substance. lay…

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Arms Felt As If on Fire Nights of Agony With Neuritis

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 June 1936 · page 3

She had tried so many "remedies" --always without result--that she had little faith in anything. But finally something induced her to try Kruschen…

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Gas Fires Seven Installed At Hospital 5/ Per Thousand Feet

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 June 1936 · page 5

In his report to the Municipal Council on Monday night, Mr. C. J. Foran, gas manager, reported that seven gas fires had been installed…

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Queanbeyan Fires

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 1

The fire bridge had two calls on Sunday. The first was when Mr. J. S. Davison was filling his car and the petrol overflowed; spilling on the…

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Bush Fire Brigades Who Lights the Fires? Cr. Dooley Says He Knows

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 July 1936 · page 2

A request from the Yass P.P. Board that council take up the responsibility of insuring members of bush fire brigades under the…

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Gas Fires Fourteen Sold; Satisfactory At Hospital

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 July 1936 · page 2

“How are you getting on with the gas-works and gas fires? How are the sales going?” asked Ald. O’Brien on Monday night…

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New Fire Station For Young Announcement by Fire Commissioners. Captain C. Forde Honored. 30 Years' Service Recognised

The Young Chronicle · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 2

Young's diminutive fire station, which has long been regarded as inadequate and unsuitable, is to be replaced next year by a modern…

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All Helped Family Which Lost in Fire. Practical Sympathy. Wombat

The Young Chronicle · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 6

Despite the very adverse weather, quite a large number of the friends of the C. Whybrow family assembled in the Memorial Hall,…

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Gas Fires 1.8 Pence Per Hour

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 July 1936 · page 2

Dir. J. T. Guyatt stated at Friday night’s meeting of the Hospital Board that the cost of operating the seven gas fires at the hospital for a…

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Melbourne Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 July 1936 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Damage estimated between £15,000 and £20,000 was caused by a fire in a two-storey brick building at South…

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Film Fire German's Death

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 July 1936 · page 1

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday: Trapped in a building filled with flames from burning cellulo[?]l, which followed an explosion of…

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Baby's Death Caravan on Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 July 1936 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Monday: While a travelling circus was giving a performance at Kathu a bonzine lamp set fire to a motor caravan in which…

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