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

Fires & bushfires, 1948

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Railway Fire Damage At Per Way

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 5

Damage was caused when sharing in a bin at the rear of the Railway Per Way Workshops caught alight…

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Fire Threat to Flour Mill

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 1 March 1948 · page 3

GUNNEDAH: While a brigade raced from Gunnedah, 23 miles away residents of Boggabri fought desperately yesterday to…

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Bush Fire Warning Laws Must Be Observed

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 2

THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) has issued a warning that the fire danger in many parts of N. S. W. made it imperative for every…

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From Everywhere Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 March 1948 · page 4

Offices and the welding-room of the Nowra Technical College were destroyed by fire on Wednesday night…

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Hobart Fire Damage Of £20,000

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 March 1948 · page 5

HOBART: It is estimated that over 8000 people, who were kept in check by a big squad of police, witnessed…

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Big Four Calls for Cease Fire Pact

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK,, Monday: The Big Four today called on Palestinian Arabs and Jews to state by tomorrow whether they would enter into a cease fire pact…

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Russian Delegate's Bitter Attack Britain And U.S. Under Fire Over Czech Coup

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 5

LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday: Bitterly attacking the United States and Britain in the Security Council Yesterday, the chief Soviet delegate to the United Nations, Andrew remyko alleged that the Communist co up in Czechoslovakia had "balked" plans or those two powers to dominate Czecho lovak political life…

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Canberra Hostels Under Fire Mr. Fraser as Critic

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 8

CANBERRA : Compulsory segregation of women into separate' hostels was "as old fashioned as the New Look." Mr. Allan…

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Big Cotton Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY: Raw cotton worth more than £650,000 was destroyed last night by a fire in a bonded store in Botany Road…

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£30,000 FIRE Outbreak At Orange

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 2

ORANGE: Fire in portion of Western Stores and Edgleys Ltd premises on Monday caused damage estimated at…

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Communism Under Fire in Parliament

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY: The leader or the State Opposition, Mr. Treatt, said he would move a motion of urgency in the Legislative Assembly, today for a debate on the, means of combating Communism in the State…

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Tribute to Fire Chief

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 1

On a motion by Ald. S. Hilyard City Council last night asked the Town Clerk (Mr. C. S. Inch) to send a letter of…

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Bush Fire at “Eubindal” Grassland Burnt On S.S. Block

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 2

A bush fire occurred on one of the soldier settlement blocks at “Eubindal” near Boorowa on Saturday afternoon…

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Freighter on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Fifty firemen are desperately fighting a fire, which broke out in the hold of the freighter Pemba at Port…

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Alleged Setting Fire to Police Station Accused Again Remanded On £1000 Bail

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 1

Charged with maliciously setting fire to the Goulburn Police Station, Thomas Leonard Monday, 32, was remanded until May 10 in the local Police Court yesterday…

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Lift on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY: Six people in a lift had narrow escapes from sericus injury when a lift burst into flames between floors at…

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Grassland Fire on Soldier Settlement

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 1

A bush fire occured on one of the soldier settlement blocks at "Eubindal" near Boorowa last Saturday afternoon. A large acreage of grassland was burnt. Reports are that Mr. S. Dunn,owner…

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Fire in a Shed

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 April 1948 · page 8

Slight damage was caused to flooring boards when a fire broke out in a shed at the rear of an Auburn Street shop early…

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Tar Kettle Catches Fire in Cooma-st

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 April 1948 · page 1

A telephone post was charred when the Yass Municipal Council’s tar kettle boiled over and caught fire in…

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Steamer on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Fire extensively damaged the cargo in the hold of the S.S. Tember, 7,500 tons, at Station Pier, Port Melbourne,…

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