Forestry Staff Fights Private Fires
The Minister for Conservation, Mr. A. G. Entick-map, M.L.A., said to-day, that Forestry Commission…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
256 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 13
Cripple in Fire Escape
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mrs. Isobel Mary Neville (80) a semi-cripple, struggled from her blazing weatherboard…
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Gordon Joseph Carter, 28, residing at Hollywood Aborigines’ Reserve, was charged at Yass Police Court with being found under…
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A small blaze which broke but under the eves at the rear of the local Commonwealth Bank building early…
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After ten fire-free days, Goulburn Fire Brigade was called out yesterday at 3.49 p.m. to a grass fire on…
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A labourer who dropped lighted tobacco at Hollywood Aborigines’ Reserve on January 9 during a proclaimed bushfire…
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LONDON, Monday: Lifeboats last night rescued the crew of a flame-swept Navy oil tanker in the Bristol Channel. The crew included a woman. The tanker, Wave Victor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Menace at Town Tip (To the editor)
Sir— I was interested to read your report 12/1/54 concerning the fire which resulted from the…
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The prolonged sounding of the fire siren on Monday morning last and billowing clouds of dense black smoke drifting across the town gave the impression of a serious…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Employees fled for their lives from a blazing building at Manly to-day when an optical goods factory was engulfed in flames. Damage estimated at £10,000…
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Goulburn Fire Brigade was called to a grass fire in a yard rat the rear of premises at 160 Lagoon Street, at 11.17 a.m…
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A fire destroyed a large stack of baker's oven wood at the rear of Morton's bakery, 128 Auburn Street, early on…
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The walls of a shed containing high explosives were scorched by fire in Goulburn early yesterday afternoon…
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Goulburn Fire Brigade was called to a grass fire on vacant land on the Hume Highway at South Goulburn at 1.50p.m…
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Goulburn Fire Brigade was called out to a grass fire on vacant land off May Street, East Goulburn, at 10.58 a.m…
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A motion by Cr. Waters, of which notice had been given at the previous meeting, seeking a return to the…
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Ald. Shannon said the alarm signal at the Fire Station had not yet been installed. There might have been serious consequences…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The western district town of Cobar is down to its last few gallons of water…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local Repatriation Increased By Nine Constitution Under Fire
As a result of last Monday night's Boorowa and District Local Repatriation Committee meeting, to which nine noncommittee men went, there has been an increase in committee membership of nine…
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The captain of the Captain's Flat Bush Fire Brigade, Mr. W. L. Lewis has issued a warning of the extreme bush fire danger…
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