Fire Brigade New Year's Party Smoke Social
Members of the volunteer staff at the Goulburn Fire Station celebrated the departure of 1937 and the abvent of 1938 at the station…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
246 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 13
Radio for Fire Brigade
CAPETOWN: The Capetown (South African) fire brigade is shortly to be equipped with radio vans. The present system of keeping touch…
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Noticing smoke issuing from the Bowral Public School ground last Wendesday, Mr. H. Medlicott, headmaster of the school, who was…
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Goulburn police have been carching for the New Year reveller who deliberately pulled the fire alarm at the corner of Bradley and Faithfull Streets early on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SINGAPORE Japan's Fire-eaters Want War 'Clash Must Come'
TOKYO, Tuesday: A report from London has been published here that Australia has urged, the need for a strong British fleet at Singaport…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Fire destroyed the screen, stage, piano and other fittings at Hoyts Theatre, King Street, Newtown, early this morning…
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Lightning struck a tree and started a bushfire on Mr. A. Friend's property, about four miles from Binalong, on Sunday morning…
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At 9.45 on Friday morning, the Fire Brigade was called extinguish a grass fire which broke out behind the premises of Selleck and…
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BRAIDWOOD: The public hall at Reidsdale was completely destroyed by fire, the origin of which is surrounded in mystery. Mr. Marcus Maher, who lived about 100 yards away, was awakened from…
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SYDNEY, Monday: An explosion occurred on the 32ft. auxiliary launch Songariti alongside the jetty at Mr. W. J. Goddard's boatshed on the Pittwater side of Palm' Beach yesterday morning. One man was seriously…
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FULLERTON: Urban Allan Hogan, living at the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Hogan, of Cook's Vale Creek, Limerick, suffered severe, burns and shock when a tin of petrol caught fire in the kitchen…
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Gigantic balls of flame, shooting high into the air, terrific explosions, and a great pall of smoke, were the first warnings of a fire that destroyed the large furniture manufacturing works of John Burgess, Ltd., at Tennyson, shortly…
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There was a sequel at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday to the fire which destroyed grass and partion of…
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Volunteers, who included Sergeant Allmond, were hurriedly summoned from Taralga yesterday to assist in fighting a grass…
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SYDNEY Wednesday: An explosion of crackers to-day in a chop window in Elizabeth Street, Paddington, was followed by a serious fire. According to the police the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crookwell Fire Lightning Ignited Grass
CROOKWELL: Following a flash of lightning during a thunderstorm here, grass caught fire on Mr. H. Hewitt's property…
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Evidently thinking it contained a harmless liquid, Herbert Allan Hogan, of Cooksvale Creek, Limerick, placed a two-gallon tin…
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Two grass fires broke out during the holidays. One outbreak occurred on the property of Mr Fred Jamieson, and 300 acres of grass were destroyed…
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A special meeting of the Yass Bush Fire Brigade has been convened at H. James and Go’s office at 3.30 next Saturday afternoon. The…
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At about 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve a Fiat motor car owned by Mr Alex. Simpson, caught alight whilst standing in Albury-street, Murrumburrah,…
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