Fine Fire Save By Seven Youths
WAGGA, Wednesday: Seven youths who saw a grass fire started by lightning courageously fought the blaze for half a mile before they quelled it…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
357 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 18
Bush Fire at Bowning
On Saturday last about 700 acres were burned on Mr, W. Glover’s property by a bush fire. It was said to have been started…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Victim Fund Opened at Jugiong OVER £300 SUBSCRIBED
At a large and representative tive public meeting held in the Jugiong Hall on, Saturday night last, over £300 was subscribed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Series of Fires
Gunning during last week had a share of fires. On Thursday at midday the local bread carter noticed smoke arising from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burrowa Surrounded by Bush Fires Landholders On The Alert
For the pest fortnight, Burrowa has been ringed by bosh tires and landholders are Keeping their holdings under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rye Park Bush Fire Sweep Over Six Properties
On Saturday afternoon last an out-break of fire occurred on the estate of the late J. Barton, "Little Plains," and ran a distance of six miles in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →P.O.W. Prevent Serious Bush Fire Outbreak Near Cowra
THE efforts of 90 prisoners of war prevented a large crop of wheat on Mr. Ernest Chivers' property from being, completely destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire at Waroo
A bush fire started on Waroo about midday in a cultivation paddock where there is a heavy growth. At time of going to press…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Fighting Unit To Be Loaned To Shire Council
The Bush Fire Advisory Committee is making a trailer pump unit available to the Goodradigbee Shire Council…
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At a large and representative public meeting held in the Jugiong Hall, over £300 was subscribed to assist a volunteer bush fire fighter who was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →From Everywhere Grass Fire
At 4.36 p.m. yesterday the Goulburn Fire Brigade attended a grass fire in Montague Street, near Faithfull Street. Damage was confined to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Bushfires Do Great Damage 18 Lives Lost ; 44 Persons In Hospital : 1000 Homes Destroyed
MELBOUNE: Monday: The Victoria bushfires are now known to have destroyed at least 1000 homes. latest casualty list 1st 18 people killed: 44 in hospital. some in a critical condition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundary Bush Fire Brigade
The annual meeting of the Gundary Bushfire Brigade was held in the Malwaree Shire Council office yesterday. Mr. Ross Peden captain of the brigade in…
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The series of fires which has occurred in the Goulburn district has shown first, the essential necessity of having men ready, willing and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fighting the Fire at Cootamundra Nearly 1000 Men Engaged In Quelling Great Outbreak: 2000 Sheep Killed
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Aided by soldiers equipped with fire-fighting equipment and water tanks, thousands of the residents of Cootamandra district are fighting against bush fires, which are destroying many acres of grass, stock and fences…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BUSHFIRES Outbreak At Murringo
A fire raging over an area of more than 40 square miles in the Murringo district, between Young and Boorowa, was the only bush…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gunning News Bush Fires
Another bush fire started at Collingwood Station on Tuesday week at midday when grass was destroyed on the holding. The members…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Outbreak at Waroo
Bush fires have done widespread damage in neighbouring districts Gundagai, Jugiong, Young and Harden. Heavy losses of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Bush Fires Murrumburrah Ringed in Flames Disastrous Week-End for the District
Murrumburrah experienced its worst Bush Fire at the week-end since the big conflagration that burnt from Albury to Yass in 1905 . when a fire sprang up on the property of the unfortunate Mr A. E. Dixon, of "Bramshott," near Wallendbeen, and swept…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires Around Young
The outbreak in the Murringo area between Young and Boorowa was reported last night to be out of control. Murringo township was in…
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