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

Fires & bushfires, 1946

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Country Fire Brigades N.S.W. Viewed by Victorian

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 20 September 1946 · page 1

Mr. R. Walker, Captain of the Swan Hill (Victoria) Volunteer Fire Brigade, was a visitor to Goulburn during…

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Fire Threatens Produce Store

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 September 1946 · page 4

Fire yesterday afternoon destroyed a quantity of bailed lucerne hay in a shed at the rear of Mr. E. J. Walker's produce store in…

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Another Big Fire Concern of Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 September 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY: Two detectives of the Arson Squad today commenced inquiries into a fire which last night…

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For Boorowa Volunteer Fire Brigade

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 2

Boorowa Shire Council has decided to call a Public meeting to organise a Volunteer Fire Brigade for Boorowa…

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Lighting of Fires Restrictions Are Lifted

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 October 1946 · page 2

Recent falls of rain have greatly reduced the risk of bush and grass fires in N.S.W., and as a result the…

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Bush Fire Hazard: Scientific Assessments

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 2 October 1946 · page 9

At a meeting of the Bush Fires Advisory Committee last week Mr. B. W. Newman, Divisional Meteorlogist of the Commonwealth Weather…

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Madman at Work? Four Strange Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 October 1946 · page 7

SYDNEY: The possibility that four attempts to set fire to a house on Bulwarra Road, Pyrmont, are the work of a…

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Shire to Stage Mock Bushfire Radio to be Used

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 October 1946 · page 8

Arrangements are being made by the Mulwaree Shire Council to stage a mock bushfire on Saturday week…

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Graziers Blamed for Bush Fires by Commission Report

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 October 1946 · page 7

MELBOURNE: In a forthright [?]ctment of graziers, Judge Stretton's report of the Royal Commission on Forest Grazing declares that overgrazing was contributing to forest fires and erosion…

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Lighting of Fires Restrictions are Lifted

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 October 1946 · page 5

Recent falls of rain have greatly reduced the risk of bush and grass fires in N.S.W., and as a result the total restriction imposed a short time…

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Town Fire Brigade Formed At Boorowa

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 October 1946 · page 4

A volunteer Town Fire Brigade was formed for Boorowa at a public meeting on Wednesday night…

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Fire Destroys Home Owner Hears News On Broadcast

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 October 1946 · page 3

Whilst visiting Goulburn on Saturday, Mr. Richard Webster, of Tower St., Panania, Sydney, learned that fire had…

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Towrang Fire Brigade

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 October 1946 · page 4

All office-bearers were, re-elected at the annual meeting of the Towrang Bushfire Brigade, held at Towrang on October 4. The…

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Test for Bushfire "Walkie-talkie" Sets

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 October 1946 · page 5

It was announced in Goulburn to-day that latest wire less equipment woudl be tested in a mock bushfire to be staged in the Gundary, district on Saturday. The trial will provide the first…

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Theatre on Fire £15,000 Damage

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 October 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: Damage estimated at £15,000 was caused when fire completely gutted the Rivoll Theatre Blacktown, early…

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Fire Started by Immersion Heater

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 October 1946 · page 3

Overheating of an electric immersion heater, which had been left lying on a window sill, caused an outbreak of fire in the Brothers quarters at St. Patrick's College last night. Smoke issuing from the room and a line of hose…

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Bush Fire Associated Brigades New Equipment

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Associated Bush Five Brigades was held in the Memorial Hall on Saturday when there were present:…

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Mock Bushfire Trial With Radio Equipment

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 1

Gundary and Windellama bushfire brigades combined in staging a mock fire on Saturday afternoon last,…

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Radio for Bushfires Demondrille Councillors Want A Demonstration

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 7

The Bushfires Advisory Committee informed last meeting of Demondrille Shire Council that it might be possible to arrange a demonstration in or adjacent to be Shire of the use of radio by bushfire brigades…

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Between Fires Papen in Tangle

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 October 1946 · page 5

NUREMBERG, Wednesday: Von Papen, after final refusal of permission to enter the British zone, left the gaol…

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