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

Fires & bushfires, 1939

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Shire Clerk to Interview Chief Secretary Request For Police Patrol on Murrumbidgee During Summer Bushfire Fighting Organisation Discussed by Councillors and Deputation From Brigade

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 November 1939 · page 1

Headed by Mr. T. Glover, a deputation from Yass Bush[?] fire Brigade waited on Goodradigbee Shire Council on…

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Bushfire Menace Preparation Must Be Made For Dry Summer Months

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 November 1939 · page 4

The stage is being set for perhaps the most devastating bushfire that Riverina has ever known. Not within living…

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800 Killed by Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 November 1939 · page 5

CARACAS (Venezuela), Tuesday: Eight hundred are reported to have been killed and injured in a fire which…

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Fire Insurance Effect on Premiums Establishment of Brigade

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 15 November 1939 · page 2

In a letter to the Crookwell Shire Council, read at last Thursday's meeting, Mr. M. Gay asked that the necessary steps be taken…

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Binalong Bush Fire Brigade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 November 1939 · page 1

BINALONG: The annual meeting of the Bushfire Brigade was held on Saturday last and 30 landowners were present. The balance sheet…

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Bushfire Brigade Grant of £50 From Shire To Purchase Fire-fighting Appliances

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 November 1939 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Gunning Bushfire Brigade was held in the Literary Institute last Saturday afternoon. Members from the…

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BINALONG Bushfire Brigade Annual Meeting

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 November 1939 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Binalong Bushfire Brigade was held last Saturday, 11th inst., when there was a large and…

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Fire Premiums at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 November 1939 · page 3

CROOKWELL: At the last meeting of the Crookwell Shire Council a letter from Mr. M. Gay was read asking council to have a…

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How Planes Fight Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 November 1939 · page 1

LONDON: The airman's main horror—fire—has been overcome by a device which is being fitted as standard to R.A.F. machined. The…

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Bushfire Brigade Intensifying Organisation Levy of 6d PER 100 Acres; Minimum 1/

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 November 1939 · page 2

With the object of intensifying its organisation during the coming danger months, the local captains of the Yass District Bushfire Brigade who…

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Bush Fire Risk Careless Acts By Motorists

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 1

Writing to the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce, which met last night, the Chief Secretary's Department advised that consideration had…

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£12,000 Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 November 1939 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Fire at Lupton’s scouring works at Botany early this morning caused damage estimated at £12,000…

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Scouts Pass Fire Exam

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 November 1939 · page 4

Six Goulburn boy scouts Ire receiving the congratulations of fellow scouts in recently passing a severe examination in Fire…

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Murrungal Shire Council Bush Fire Brigade Matters

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 November 1939 · page 4

Mr. C. W. Kenny (Shire Clerk), reported to last meeting of the above Council that he had written the various district Bush Fire Brigades…

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London Is Ready for Fires

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 24 November 1939 · page 1

London Fire Brigade has been decentralised. A world-famous system which has been followed for 70 years, and…

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Fire Risk Long Grass Is Menace

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 3

At Thursday night's meeting of the Goulburn City Council. Aid. C. H. Piggett drew council's attention to the…

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Heard and Seen Lawyers Under Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 4

Generally speaking, members of the learned legal profession have matters all their own way when within the bounds of the…

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Bushfire Menace Discretionary Powers Sought for Safeguarding Holdings Police and Local Government Bodies

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 1

The danger of bushfires was stressed by Mr. T. J. A. Fitzpatrick at the meeting of the directors of the Wagga Pastures Protection Board…

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Grass Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 7

Shortly before two p.m. to-day the Goulburn Fire Brigade was called I to a grass fire in the region of Wayo Street, North Goulburn. The…

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Two Fires

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 November 1939 · page 7

Two outbreaks of fire occurred within a few minutes of each other in Goulburn early this afternoon. At about 1.55 a fire broke out.0…

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