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

Fires & bushfires, 1953

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Second Fire in Local Cafe

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 November 1953 · page 2

Goulburn Fire Brigade was called out at 10.20 p.m. on Saturday to a fire in the Occidental cafe, 230 Auburn Street,…

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Southern Shires Revise Fire Brigade Areas

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 2

Representatives of bush fire brigades in the Mulwaree, Crookwell and Gunning Shires met at Goulburn yesterday to reconsider the boundaries of certain brigades in the district. The meeting was called after…

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Grass Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 November 1953 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade was called to a grass fire in Murray Street at 9.40 on Saturday morning. The fire was quickly…

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Bushfire Danger

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 November 1953 · page 3

Hundreds of business were tuning in New South Wales yesterday. Thousands of men fought the fires over a wide area on…

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Bushfire Menace

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 November 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: More than 30,000 volunteer firefighters have been alerted as threa' of bushfire became more…

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A.l.p. Fires Aldermen

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 November 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY: Bankstown Nayor, Ald. A. E. Abel, to-day denied that there was any graft or corruption in…

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Army Rushed in to Fight Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 November 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: About 100 soldiers to-day joined volunteer firefighters, police and civilians in a desperate effort to halt a huge bushfire threatening thte township of Menai, on the Woronora River…

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Coastal Fires

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 November 1953 · page 8

Bushfires late last night were burning fiercely along the New South Wales coast from Bateman's Bay to Coff's Harbor…

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Hundreds Exhausted in Fire Fight On North Coast

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 November 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: North Coast farms, forests and plantations are to-day threatened by bushfires, and many of the hundreds of volunteers fighting fires…

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Grass Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 November 1953 · page 6

Goulburn Fire Brigade was called t oa grass fire in Victoria Park at 3.51 yesterday afternoon A large area of grass, bushes and…

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Fire Damage in the North

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 November 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: Twenty bushfires in the Coff's Harbour area are still burning out of control to-day, after a night in which every…

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New Fire Captain at Frogmore Disfavour Use Of Radio At Fires

Boorowa News · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 3

The Frogmore Bush Fire Brigade last Monday night appointed a new Captain and expressed its disfavour of…

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Fire Brigades' Publicity Officers

Boorowa News · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 6

Following is a list of Bush Fire Brigades and their Publicity officers who should be contacted in case of fire or…

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EDITORIAL. Apathy And Ignorance Won't Fight Fires

Boorowa News · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 1

Members of the Frogmore Bush Fire Brigade, and no doubt members of other brigades too, have openly denounced the appalling apathy of landowners towards the conduct of their brigades and brigade meetings…

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Fierce Bush Fires On North Coast

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Bush fires were still burning fiercely and out of control in the Coff's Harbour,…

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Fire Near North Goulburn Line

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 1

Goulburn Fire Brigade Was called to a bushfire off the main railway line a North Goulburn on Saturday afternoon…

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Gunning Council's Views On Fire Brigade Areas

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Gunning Shire Council considerable discussion took place following a report by…

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Bushfire Case Starts Here To-day Claims Against Commissioner For Railways

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 1

An action arising out of extensive bushfires on Friday, January 25, 1952, starts at two o’clock this afternoon in the Yass District Court, when claims against the Commissioner for Railways, will be made by Mr. K…

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Fire in Tent Settlement

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 November 1953 · page 2

Goulburn Fire Brigade was called out at 6.55 a.m. this, morning to a fire in a settlement of tents near the old North…

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New Car Destroyed in Rectory Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 November 1953 · page 1

A Holden car, purchased by the Rev. J. G. Donoghue only three months ago, was totally destroyed on Saturday afternoon last when fire gutted the garage and adjoining shed…

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