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

Fires & bushfires, 1947

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Truck Destroyed by Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 3

A Whippet utility truck was destroyed by fire in a private garage at Leeton. P. Longobardi, owner of the truck, is away in Sydney…

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Fire in Chimney of Cafe

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 April 1947 · page 3

Shortly before 6 o'clock last night, the Goulburn Fire Brigade answered a call to a fire at the Empire Fish Cafe,…

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Knapsacks for Fire Fighting

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 April 1947 · page 1

The Goulburn Fire Brigade yesterday took delivery of four fire fighting knapsacks which will be used on grass and…

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Explosion Threat From Shed Fire Business Centre Outbreak

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 May 1947 · page 3

Prompt extinction of a fire in Goulburn's business centre yesterday afternoon by the Fire Brigade presented a possible serious blast of explosives…

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Food for Britain Bush Fire Brigades

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 2

An immediate and generous response to the Bush Fire Brigades’ appeal for funds for the Stock Drive at Yass saleyards…

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Gunnedah Fire Two Shops Are Destroyed

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: Two shop were destroyed and the wing of a hotel was badly damaged in a fire that broke out in…

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Big Fire in Japan Two British Officers Killed

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 May 1947 · page 3

TOKYO, Monday: Two British officers were killed in a big fire which razed an officers mess of the…

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Two Week-end Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 June 1947 · page 2

The Goulburn Fire Brigade answered two calls to chimney fires over the week-end. The first call received shortly…

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£500 Fire Damage At Lithgow Technical College

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 June 1947 · page 4

LITHGGOW: Police say that two boys deliberately lit fires in the Lithgow Technical College building on Saturday afternoon…

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Firemen's Pluck in Auburn Street Blaze

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 4

When a fire broke out in an unattended flat above McWilliams Wine Saloon, Auburn Street, late yesterday afternoon, firemen were forced to fight amid dense smoke Flames completely damaged…

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Lithgow Fires Police Search for Culprits

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 5

Some mystery surrounds three of the four fires which broke out in several buildings at Lithgow on Friday…

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Chimney Fire Today

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 5

Late this morning the Goulburn Fire Brigade answered a call to a chimney fire in premises at 91 Coromandel Street. No…

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Fire Alarm Box Damaged

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 5

Vandals have been at work on one of the Goulburn Fire Brigade's fire, alarm boxes. The alarm box at the…

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Fire Calls

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 5

The Goulburn Fire Brigade last night answered, a call to a chimney fire in premises at 32 Church Street…

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Riots in India Many Fires in Lahore

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 June 1947 · page 3

CALCUTTA, Sunday: Four persons were killed and nine injured in a series of incidents in east, north and central Calcutta…

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13 KILLED In Belgian Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 June 1947 · page 5

BRUSSELS, Wed.: Thirteen persons are so far known to have been killed and 40 injured when a disastrous fire…

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Fire in Bourke St School

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 June 1947 · page 5

Using buckets of water, teachers and Constable Bouchier, of the Goulburn Police, put out a fire which broke out at Bourke Street…

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Shire Briefs Bush Fires Advisory Committee

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 2

In reply (o a suggestion by the Bush Fires Advisory Committee that a local Demonstration of Radio Commnunications for use it connection…

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To Help "Burnt-out" Men Repatriation Committees Will Unite in Scheme

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 8

District repatriation committees have decided to unite in an effort to evolve a scheme under which they can give assistance to "burnt-out" diggers—those men who are not repatriation cases, but whose health has been impaired and their…

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Controversy Over Fire-hghting Unit at Galong

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 3

There has been a great deal of controversy around Galong lately over their fire fighting equipment…

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