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

Fires & bushfires, 1937

196 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 10

Fire Siren Test To-night

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 4

Between 8 and 8.30 to-night the sired at the Coulburn Fire Station will be given a series of tests and will probably be…

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Fire Inspector's Visit

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 28 July 1937 · page 4

Inspector J. Barnaby, of Fire Brigade Headquarters, [?] this city yesterday to carry out the half-yearly inspection of the…

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Fire Started by Bird

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 1

BERLIN: A grey woodpecker picked up the burning end of a elgarette at Gdingen and flew off with It to Its nest. On the way It dropped it on the…

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Alderman on Fire

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 August 1937 · page 2

While it is not uncommon for aldermen to get heated at times, it is unusual for one to actually burst into flame. Last Monday night…

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Flock Rams Burnt Fire In Melbourne Store

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 August 1937 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday: Spreading with remarkable rapidity, a fire on Saturday night swept the rear portion of the top floor of a…

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Fierce Battle For Madrid Heavy Gun Fire Into Spain's Capital Is This a Last Attempt By General Franco?

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 August 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: Spanish insurgents launched a determined attack round Carabanchel, south-west of Madrid. It is reported that the Gpovernment troops wihbeld the pressure for about an hour, then counter-attacked,…

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Fire Calls Correct Operation Of Alarms

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 8

The manner in which a call was sent recently to the Goulburn Fire Station, Suggests that some members of the public are not…

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Two Fires At Mosman And At Alexandria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A fire broke out in a laundry at Mosman early yesterday, and the flames spread to a nearby cottage disturbing the…

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Lorry Blaze Driver Severely Burned Gaol Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 5

Severe burns were received by Walter Thoroughgood, employed at the Goulburn Reformatory as a lorry driver, when a motor…

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The Macquarie Fight Luchetti Fires His First Shot "Government's Tragic Record"

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 August 1937 · page 3

With Mr. J. M. Tully, ex-Minister for Lands in the last Lang Government, Mr. A. S. Luchetti, selected Labor candidate for…

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“OVER-EXACTING” Fire Regulations Country Public Halls

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 August 1937 · page 8

Ald. J. J. Cusack moved on Monday night that the following motion be placed on the agenda paper at the next Local Government conference:…

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British Government Makes Proposals to Both Sides Japan Unlikely to Agree Shanghai Bombed Again Britain Has 10,000 Men on the Scene Refugees Caught in Fire of Armies

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 August 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: Definite proposals for bringing to an end the dangerous situation at Shanghai have been submitted to the Chinese and Japanese Governments…

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House Razed Crookwell Fire Night Blaze

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 August 1937 · page 5

CROOKWELL, Thursday: An outbreak of fire completely destroyed a weatherboard building of 10 rooms, situated on the…

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Hire and Fire (To the Editor)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 26 August 1937 · page 8

Sir,—The above proposal which I have submitted to the Council has called for comment in your last issue. I fear that comment may…

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Fire Brigade Wanted

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 September 1937 · page 4

Assuming that the town water supply will be an accomplished fact at a not very distant date, and with the picture of…

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Two Cottages Destroyed By Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 September 1937 · page 7

Two weatherboard cottages were totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday night last. In the case of one, that occupied by Mr…

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Child Burned Clothing Caught Fire Condition Grave

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 5

Shocking burns were suffered by Barry Matthews, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Matthews, when his clothes caught fire at…

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Compensation Claim Clothes Set Fire By Chemical

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 3

QUEANBEYAN, Thursday: Before the Workers' Compensation Commission, Bertram Carr station hand, claimed compensation from john…

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Fire Vendetta? Police Theory For Outbreaks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: During the weekend six separate fires were discovered in the laundry of a house in Newtown. in which 11 persons were sleeping…

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Kitchen Blaze : Mistook Petrol for Kerosene

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 5

Burns on, the hands and left. leg were suffered by Thomas Denny, a railway employee, of 44 Bourke Street, when beating out a…

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