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

Fires & bushfires, 1953

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Minimum Damage By Fire In 1952

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 January 1953 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade had a quiet year during 1952, attending only 151 calls, as against the 230 of 1951. This year was almost entirely…

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First Grass Fire This Summer

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade attended its first grass fire of the summer last night, when a citizen reported at the station, that…

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Patrol For Fires and Sharks

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: The voluntary Coastguard Corps would operate on shark and bushfire patrols again next Saturday, if…

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Fire Equipment Rye Park Resident Extends Water Pipe Line to Rye Park—kenny's Creek Road

Boorowa News · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

Mr. Harry Southwell, "wa[?]e Grove," Rye Park has recently installed water supply to his residence from a bore which…

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Laundry on Fire; £50 Damage

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 2

When a laundry and Outhouse at the home of Mr. D. Price, Yass Junction road, caught ,on fire yesterday morning, the building…

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Further Attempt To Form Town Bush Fire Brigade

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 4

A further attempt is to be made on a date to be fixed to form a town bush fire brigade and as a preliminary to…

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Terrible Bush Fires 101 Years Ago

Boorowa News · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 3

The fires of 1851 saw Victoria swept by one of the most disastrous bush fires Australia has ever known. On the morning of February;…

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Bush Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 3

The Postmaster-General, Mr. H. L. Anthony, said in Canberra yesterday, that bush fire brigades would receive the full…

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Compensation For Fire Fighters

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 4

An article in the latest issue of "Bush Fire Bulletin" tells of compensation for bush fire fighters…

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Fire Fighters Stop Threat to House

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 1

Prompt action by members of the Gundary Bush Fire Brgiade and railway workers yesterday prevented a grass fire from endangering a weatherboard cottage aid sheds in the Komungla district…

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Fire, Shark Patrols

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Aircraft of the Volunteer Coastguard Corps will patrol about 2000, square miles of the N.S.W. coast and inland…

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Qld. Jockey On Liquid Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY: Liquid Fire will be ridden by the Queensland jockey, J. Standfield, in Saturday's challenge…

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Bush Fire Matters Before Mulwaree Shire Council

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 1

The Bush Fire Committee has notified Mulwaree Shire Council that it is now compulsory for all sawmill waste…

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No Paid Players Farmer Loses 110 Sheep in Tent- Fire Say Grenfell Rugby League Previous incident At Frogmore

Boorowa News · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 3

Gene[?]ell Rugby League, after their most successful season last year, have once more decided to stick to the "no paid One hundred and ten sheep were lost and 300 acres of grazing land were razed when a tent caught fire at…

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Grass Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 2

Goulburn Fire Brigade attended its first fire in weeks on Saturday, when it was called to a small grass fire on the corner…

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Fire Outbreak on Liner

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: A fire, which was stated this morning to have become serious, has broken out on the 20,000-ton Atlantic liner, "Empress of Canada."…

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Representatives of Bush Fire Brigades Meet "Will Be Fires Unless Very Lucky"

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 January 1953 · page 4

At a meeting of representatives of all Bush Fire Brigades within the Crookwell Shire held at the Council Chambers on Friday afternoon last, the chairman, Mr. S. A. Cullen,…

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Car Gutted by Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 January 1953 · page 1

Fire completely gutted the interior of a 1934 model sedan car, owned by Mr. Mervyn Smith, of Binda Road, on Wednesday night last causing damage estimated to be in excess…

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Grass Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 6

Goulburn Fire Brigade used a line of hose and hydrant to extinguish a grass fire near Tully Pa krGolf Club yesterday. The…

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Fire On "Queen Elizabeth"

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: Fire broke out in a main deck cabin of the liner Queen Elizabeth at Southampton last night, but was quickly brought under control. The Queen Elizabeth (83,673…

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