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

Fires & bushfires, 1952

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N.s.w. Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 February 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Sydney civil aviation officers this morning had to divert three overseas airliners from Mascot to Dubbo, because…

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Fires Delay Road Work

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 February 1952 · page 1

Yarrowulmla Shire Engineer, Mr. H. Cross has advised, that the works programme scheduled for…

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Fire on Jeir Reserve

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 February 1952 · page 4

Prompt action on Friday morning by Murrumbateman and Jeir Bushfire Brigades prevented a fire on the Jeir reserve from…

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Captain's Flat Fire Brigade

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 February 1952 · page 1

Mr. George Gumm, Secretary of the Captains Flat Bushfire Brigade, said that the Brigade has only been called out once…

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Stock Losses in Bookham Bushfire

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 February 1952 · page 2

Mr. L. Armour, captain of the Bookham Bushfire Brigade, this morning supplied the following estimates of stock losses in the…

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Bushfire Committee To Hear Reports of Damage

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 February 1952 · page 2

Superintendent Clifford of the Police Department, and Mr. Jolley, of the State Treasury, will…

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The Gib Outbreak Hundreds Fight Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 February 1952 · page 5

Following the thrill experienced by Bowral residents on Thursday of last week, when the fire from the direction…

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Big Fires at Bargo and Mount Victoria

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 February 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Blue Mountains town of Mount Victoria to-day was being threatened by bushfires…

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Local Bushfire Danger Stressed

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 February 1952 · page 1

Bushfire danger in the Southern Tablelands area was stressed to-day by District Veterinary-Officer, Mr. S. L. Black. Last week Mr. Black Visited…

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Fire Ban

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 February 1952 · page 1

Mulwaree Shire Clerk, Mr.R.I Penman, to-day received advice from the Chief Secretary that there…

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The Demon Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 February 1952 · page 2

Time and time again Australia has had bushfires. Away back in the days of "Geoffrey Hamlyn," Henry…

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Heavy Stock Losses in Rugby Fire One Uninhabited Cottage Destroyed

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 February 1952 · page 2

As far as can be ascertained many hundreds of livestock perished in the fire that swept to within three hundred yards of the village of Rugby last Thursday afternoon and burnt out…

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Bushfires and Taxes

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 February 1952 · page 2

CANBERRA: The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, pointed out last night that bushfire victims were not the only primary…

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Heatwave Conditions Bushfire Danger High

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 February 1952 · page 2

Crookwell is again in the grip of a heatwave with the mercury soaring towards the century mark…

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Grass Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 February 1952 · page 6

Goulburn Fire Brigade extinguished two grass fires last night. The first fire broke out in a…

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Rifle Bullet Started Fire!

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 February 1952 · page 4

A million-to-one chance is reported to have caused the huge fire which commenced near Mattama last week…

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Ambulance’s Dash Through Bushfire To Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 February 1952 · page 2

WHEN a collision occurred near Berremangra about 11.45 on Tuesday morning, Yass Ambulance dashed…

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Two Hundred Bales Of Lucerne To Feed Stock Of Bush Fire Sufferers Generous Donation to District Graziers By Hume Family

Boorowa News · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 1

A generous donation of two hundred bales of lucerne to feed stock of the bush fire sufferers when their grasslands were completely destroyed has been donated by the Hume family of "Tarengo."…

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Two Fires Last Night

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 5

Fire last night destroyed an area of fencing and a wooden shed in a vacant allotment of Emma Street, East Goulburn…

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Fire Sidelights

Boorowa News · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 1

Mr. Roley Southwell, of Rye Park, during the heat of the fire was thrown from a fire truck into the flames. He was…

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