Fire Hazard at Garbage Tip Council Seeks Bushfire Brigades Help
The co-operation of the Associated Bushfire Brigades will be sought by the Municipal Council in an ttempt to…
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Fires & bushfires, 1955
32 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Three Minor Fires Put Out by the Yass Brigade
Several hundred yards of fencing was charred by two grass fires on W. J. Kaveney’s “Douro” dairy last Thursday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Cafe £100 Damage In Kitchen
When fat caught alight in the kitchen of J. & D. Plodis’ Roxy Cafe about six o’clock last night, the flames spread to the chimney,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Leaves Bookham Family Destitute
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Payne, and their five children lost all their furniture, clothing and the few pounds they had, when the home they were living in at Ferndale, Bookham, was destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Better Fire Beaters Wanted For Yass
Cr. O. S. Ryan maintains that beaters sent to Yass by the Bushfire Committee “are not worth carrying out.”…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Children Blamed for Fire
A fire which occurred in the woodshed at the reaf of the Australian Hotel yesterday morning burnt a small quantity of wood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Garbage Tip Fire Lighting Warning Not Considered Necessary Now
Due to the recent rain and the lateness of the season the Municipal Council does not consider, it necessary to issue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire Danger Period Ended
The Bushfire Advisory Committee informed Yass Municipal on Monday night that the bushfire danger period in respect…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Extra Hydrant for Browne Street Fire Brigade’s Request
An extra water hydrant will be provided in Browne Street to enable Yass Fire Brigade to carry out further practice…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowser on Fire Petrol Caused Car To Backfire
When a car was being filled with petrol at the Hume Service Station, Cooma Street, on Sunday morning, the petrol caught alight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jeep for Bushfires Brigade
Goodradighee Shire Council at its last meeting authorised the purchase of a second hand jeep for the use of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flat Tyre Caused Trailer Fire
A New Australian, Mr. V. Semner. of South Australia, one of the occupants of a semi-trailer travelling from Sydney to Melbourne, burned…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yass Repertory “Fire on the Snow” First Public Reading
Douglas Stewart’s magnificent dramatisation of the Scott expedition to the South PoIe in 1911 was chosen for Yass Repertory’s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chimney on Fire
A chimney which £aught alight about 10.30 this morning in a flat occupied by Mrs. Keith Bailey over Pitt’s butchery was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warning on Summer Bushfires
The Chief Secretary, Mr. C. A. Kelly, said that surveys had shown the bushfire season this summer would be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Liberty Buildings
A chimney in premises occupied by Mr. Keith Richards and a flat occupied by Miss A. Triggs, in the Liberty Buildings, Cooma Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Low Water Pressure Blamed for Loss of House in Fire Two Families Offered Another Home
Flames leapt high in a spectacular blaze fanned by the strong westerly wind when a six-roomed weather-board house in Walker Street caught fire early on Tuesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prevention of Bushfires Publicity Campaign By Stores
Yass stores will co-operate with the Bushfires Central Committee in a campaign to bring before the public the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fire Prevention
The Municipal Council will co-operate with the Central Bushfires Committee in propaganda to prevent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bushfire Danger Period
As from October 1, a State-wide bushfire danger period is proclaimed. From that date the lighting…
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