Fire Behind Fruit Shop
A fire broke out yesterday afternoon in straw and boxes behind Messrs. Plodis Bros. fruit shop in Cooma Street. Mr. Nick McNally was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
500 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 13 of 25
Bushfires and Telephone Lines
Mr. Tom Collins has renewed his efforts to have privately owned telephone lines destroyed by bushfires re-erected at Departmental expense,…
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A bushfire started on the Rev. W. M. Holliday’s country on the Little River at Wee Jasper to-day. Det. Constable B. J. Catt and other men…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Working in fierce heat, many hundreds of volunteers yesterday fought bush fires which threatened…
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The Young fire brigade received two calls at the holiday week-end. The first summons was due to rubbish and grass near the Yass Street…
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Forecast: Fine and warm to hot and sultry; chiefly northerly winds; continued bush fire hazard; rather hazy and misty…
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Young is not the only place where there have been a number of mysterious fires this summer. In one week this month the Canberra brigade…
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LONDON, Thursday: A German broadcast from the Western front discloses that the Siegfried line is not finished. Thousands of men are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local and General Fire at Rubbish Tip
Rubbish at the Municipal Council's tip, near the intersection of Thornhill and Dundas Streets, blazed up about half-past ten last night and the…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Passengers on the two divisions of the Melbourne Express, both of which arrived at Sydney nearly six hours late yesterday afternoon, spent a night of anxiety on Saturday as the trains sped through miles of fierce…
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The bushfire which started on the Rev. W. M. Holliday’s property on the Little River, Wee Jasper, on Thursday afternoon, cleaned up 5000…
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On Sunday afternoon volumes of smoke were seen rising in the vicinity of Milly Milly station and very soon after the outbreak which…
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Many anxious moments were spent by landholders and others at the week-end when numerous outbreaks of fire…
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BREADALBANE: A fire broke out on Raeburn Station during Sunday night. The alarm was given by a…
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The cushion seat of a motor truck parked in Lovell Street early on Sunday evening somehow caught alight and the brigade received a…
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A fire which broke out at 11.50 last night totally destroyed a large weatherboard house on the corner of Thornhill and Edwards-sts…
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Appreciation of the assistance given by Board employees in fighting bush fires was placed on record at Saturday's meeting of the Young P.P…
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Sir,--With reference to the account of the Gurrundah fire in your issue of 27th inst., mention is made that the fire was well under control at 9 p.m…
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The urgent call for volunteers met with a prompt reply to assist check a bushfire on the property of Mr. Vince Heffernan at Gurrundah on…
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Wednesday: Fourteen natives were killed and 20 wounded when the troops fired on copper-mine strikers in the Nkana concession in the…
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