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

Fires & bushfires, 1944

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Bushfire Costs

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 2

The subject of bushfires received some consideration at the meeting of the Development League on Thursday evening…

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Allied Anti-Aircraft Fire Streaks Sky

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 3

Anti-aircraft guns of the Allied Fifth Army streak the night sky over Nettuno. Italy, with a fiery pattern, as Allied gunners repel German raiders. Allied troops landed in the Nettuno area and established beachheads behind the German lines. 30 miles south of Rome.—Department…

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Bush Fire Victim: Government Will Contribute £500 to to Trust Fund

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 2

The State Government has decided. Mr. W. F. Sheahan, M.L.A., informs us, to donate £500 to the “Hackney Trust Fund” (Jugiong)…

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FINED £20 Caused Bush Fire

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 May 1944 · page 1

Charged with igniting inflammable 0material within ten yards of grasslands, John Henry Walton was fined £20 and 8/ costs, or 41 days’…

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Council’s Position Fire-breaks and Burning Off

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 May 1944 · page 3

In a letter to the Gunning Shire Council, Mr. W. F. Sheahan, M.L.A wrote as follows regarding the extending of the close season on…

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Bushfire At Marmont's Flat

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 May 1944 · page 3

There was an outbreak of fire on Thursday on Mr. Hugh McKenzie's property at Marmont's Flat. The fire was on the west side of the Yalbraith Road; and for…

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Big Blaze at Goulburn

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 4 May 1944 · page 2

One of Goulburn's most disastrous fires in recent years occurred at the Modern Laundry in Auburn street on Monday night. The…

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Bush Fire Was it a Cigarette Butt? Heavy Damage at Cowra

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 1

At a coronial inquiry into a disastrous bush fire in the Cowra-Woodstock district, a cigarette butt was given as…

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Goulburn Puts Up New Record For Outbreaks Of Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 2

The record of 55 fires in one year, made in 1939, was broken over the week-end, and there are now 57 calls of fire registered already this year. At 3.7 on Friday afternoon the…

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Thieves Set Shop on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: After stealing tobacco and cigarettes and other goods from a mixed business at La Perouse early to…

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Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY. Friday: A fire almost gutted the premises of the Federal Chemical Company in Elizabeth, Street, City, to-day, and two…

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Bush Fire Unit Cr. Best Wants it Returned

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 May 1944 · page 2

Cr. Best considers that the Shire Council should return the fighting fire unit loaned to the Council by the Bush Fire…

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Good Fires or Absenteeism

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 May 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: The Secretary of the Miners' Federation Mr. Grant, said to-day that coal rationing would increase…

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Power Units To Fight Bush Fires

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 2

Following upon the Crookwell Shire Council's suggestion that all district bush' fire brigades be circularised with a view to ascertaining…

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Sawmill Goes Up in Flames Big Fire At Tuncurry

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 May 1944 · page 3

TUNCURRY: Just ,before 8 o'clock on Sunday night theme was a sudden outburst of fire in Wright's sawmills at Tuncurry,…

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Big Fires in Canada

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 2

OTTAWA, Tuesday: Forest fires are raging in parts of the five provinces of New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario,…

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Rats Start Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 7

Because rats [?]ibbeld matches on a stall, fire broke [?] at Bromsgrove market hall and did £800 worth of damage…

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FIRE Good Save £300 Worth of Lin Burned

Yass Tribune-Courier · Saturday 10 June 1944 · page 2

What could have been a astrous fire was averted [?] Club House Hotel yest[?] afternoon…

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Shires and Fire Control

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 3

Decisions, reached at the Burrawang Shire Annual Bush Fire Brigade Conference last Saturday at Young should prove…

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Alleged Careless Use Of Fire Charge Against Rabbiters Allegations Failed

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 4

Two men who were accused of having caused the disastrous fire which swept through country between Wallendbeen and…

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