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

Fires & bushfires, 1946

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Boy Set on Fire "I Didn't Like Him"

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 13 June 1946 · page 5

ADELAIDE: Tile story of how a nine-year lid boy set fire to the bandages of a younger lad knee because "he did not like…

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House at Baw Baw Destroyed by Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 June 1946 · page 3

A fire which completely destroyed an upoccupied residence at Baw Baw late yesterday afternoon is believed to have been started by a man who was later admitted to a mental institution…

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Ash-Waste Fire Busy Time for Brigade

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 6

Caused by spontaneous: combustion, a fire which broke out in a pile of many tons of ash-waste at the…

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Sprinkler System Fire Control at Mill

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 June 1946 · page 2

First Goulburn building to be equipped with an automatic sprinkler system is Wm. Conolly's flour mill…

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Persian Riot Police Fire on Unemployed

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 June 1946 · page 3

TEHERAN, Tuesday: The police fired 35 shots during a demonstration of 2000 unemployed demanding jobs…

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Fire in Freezing Works

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY: Fire at the Metropolitan Ice and Cold Storage works to-day ruined a large quantity of frozen meat awaiting…

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BUSHFIRES Radio to Aid Brigades

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 4

Three "walkie-talkie" radio sets to be used for communication between bushfire fighters have been delivered…

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The Scene Off Bikini This Morning Lagoon Disappears Amid Burst of Fire and Water Damage Was Not So Great As Was Expected by Observers At Sea off Bikini Atoll, Monday: The atomic bomb was dropped on Bikini Atoll at 8 o'clock (Sydney time) this morning

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 1 July 1946 · page 3

At Sea off Bikini Atoll, Monday: The atomic bomb was dropped on Bikini Atoll at 8 o'clock (Sydney time) this morning. Preliminary scrappy reports from observers on the United States warships standing off the atoll indicated that the damage was not as great as was expected. There are no reports of an casualties…

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Conolly's Mill Fire Sprinkler System

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 3

A furthen step in the installation of an automatic fire sprinkler system at Wm. Conolly's flour mill was taken yesterday when…

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Food Offer by Fire Reported British Refusal

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: The British Trade Mission has repeatedly ignored Eire's offers to send food to…

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WALKIE-TALKIE[?] For Bush Fire[?] Brigades

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 4

There was a good dea?] talkie-talkie about w[?] talkies at last week's me[?] of the District B.F.B. E[?]…

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Mechanical Units For Fighting Fires

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 7

Members of the District Fire Brigades' Executive Council last Friday witnessed a demonstration of the…

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Bulb Sets Tank on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY: When an electric light bulb was shattered by the tool he was using a petrol tank being removed from a car caught…

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Hut Blaze Military Depot Outbreak

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 2

Radiation of heat from the flue of a stove is believed to have caused a fire which partly destroyed a hut at…

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Family Loses All in Komungla Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 3

Everything possessed by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Brown and their two children was lost when a fire destroyed their home at Komungla last Sunday. The family was absent at the…

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From Everywhere Chimney Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 2

The Goulburn Fire Brigade early last night answered a call to a chimney fire at 32 Auburn Street. No damage was caused…

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Set Fire to a Rooster

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 6

In Orange two 12-year-old boys caught a rooster, poured kerosene all over the bird, set it alight with a match and hunted it away…

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Kenmore Patient Sets Cottage on Fire Inquiry into Baw Baw Outbreak

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 1

Evidence by three witnesses at the Goulburn Coroner's Court on Saturday morning revealed that the destruction of a weatherboard cottage at Baw Baw, which was completely gutted by fire on June 17, was caused by an…

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Farmers and Graziers' Fire Control System

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 5

Work on Goulburn's second automatic sprinkler system of fire control, which is being installed at the Farmers and…

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Brigade's Good Save Fire in Roof of Masonic Hall

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 8

Its early detection and the fact that the Crookwell Fire Brigade turned out very promptly resulted in the extinction of a fire in the roof of the…

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