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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1909

3 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

The Heat Wave. a Record at Windsor Observatory. 119'9 Degrees on Monday. Destructive Bush Fires. Birds Fall Dead

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 7

THE experiences of Sunday and Monday will not be readily forgotten by the people of the Hawkesbury District, in common with those of most parts of the State…

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The Unlucky Fire Brigade

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 10 July 1909 · page 8

The Windsor Fire Brigade is good, indeed—I give the members credit; But luck with them is out, we're all agreed—And other folk have said it…

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Bush Fires

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 4

Throughout the Hawkesbury district great heat was experienced on Tuesday last, the shade temperature being in some places as high as 106 degrees. Bush…

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