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

Fires & bushfires, 1951

289 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 15

£1000 Damage When Van Catches Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 1

Transport drivers fought for two hours to qucll a blaze in a furniture van three miles north of Marulan last night. Damage to the truck and its load is expected to total more than £1000…

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House Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 30 July 1951 · page 1

A pair of curtains was destroyed, and a window framework and a quantity of weather-board damaged by fire in a…

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Chimney Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 2

Goulburn Fire Brigade attended a chimney fire at 7 Hurst Street last night. The fire was extinguised with…

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Illegal Fire

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 4

Before Mr. Wm. Finlay, S.M, at Yass Court of Petty Sessions last week, John Dixon Thomson, Kingston, Canberra, Graeme…

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Big Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: A fire which caused £250,000 damage last night will seriously delay the work on the Snowy River…

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Firemen Use Axes In Flat Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 4

Firemen used axes yesterday to upstairs flat in Auburn Street spreading building…

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Fire Fighting in N.s.w

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 4

"The N.S.W. fire fighting organisation is second to none in the world," Country Inspector G. Fisher of the N.S.W. Fire Brigade, declared in the couse of an address to the Rotary Club. They had people coming from…

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Chimney Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 2

Goulburn Fire Brigade was called to a chimney fire at 25 Montague Street last night. The call was received at 6.46 pm…

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Cease-fire Talks to Resume

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 5

TOKYO, Wednesday: The United delegates to the Kaesong cease-fire talks are expected to return to Korea to-day…

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Started Bush Fire Murringo Farmer Fined For Indiscretion

Boorowa News · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 3

A Murringo farmer, who lit some weeds during the State Bush Fire Danger pleaded guilty at the Young…

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Coromandel St. Blaze

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 4

Goulburn Fire Brigade was called cut to a chimney fire shortly after 11 a.m. to-day. The fire was at 96 Coromandel…

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£1,000,000 Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: A fire last night gutted No. 11 Store Shed at the Naval Department Stores Depot, Bundock Street, Randwick…

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Frogmore News Annual fire Brigade Meeting Important Decisions Made

Boorowa News · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 2

At the annual meeting at the Frogmore Bush Fire Brigade, officers for 1951-2 were elected and two notices…

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Nine Killed in Blaze on Tanker

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 5

SINGAPORE, Monday: At least nine officers and crew, who were members of the British tanker Dromua, 8036 tons, were killed by a fuel explosion aboard the vessel early to-day. The explosion took place at Palau Bukom, an oil storage island, five miles from Singapore. A number of others,…

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Call to Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 3

The Fire Brigade received a call shortly after mid-day to the High School where a class-room heater in one of the portable…

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Chimney Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 August 1951 · page 2

Goulburn Fire Brigade Was called to a chimney fire on Friday afternoon. A call was received to 420 Auburn Street,…

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Big Fire in City

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 August 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: Two men were taken to hospital after jumping from the second floor of a building in Oxford Street…

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"Fire" And A Stampede

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 August 1951 · page 3

MEXICO CITY, Monday: Five persons died in a Mexico, City picture theatre last night, when a cry of "Fire" started a mad…

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Island Ship on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 29 August 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY:. Firemen at 2 o'clock were fighting a huge blaze on the island trading steamer, Bu[?]lo…

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House Set on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 29 August 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: The police arrested a man early this morning and charged him with setting fire to a house at Sutherland in…

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