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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1944

24 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 2 of 2

Fire Danger From Gas Units Richmond Council Move

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 December 1944 · page 1

AT its last meeting the Richmond Council decided to request better Government measures to eliminate risk of fires being…

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Black Day in Hawkesbury Bush Fires Cause Wide Havoc Two Dead: Many Lose Their All

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 December 1944 · page 1

WITH two lives lost, many residents bereft of their homes, stock, plant and possessions, and large areas of the district a blackened, fenceless wasteland, Sunday last will go down as one of the most tragic and calamitous days in Hawkesbury history…

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Funds Opened Bush Fire Relief Generous Response

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 December 1944 · page 1

FOLLOWING the disastrous fires of the previous Sunday and Monday, three relief funds—at Richmond, Kurrajong and…

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Relief For Busk Fire Distress Measures Explained to Meeting Quick Individual Help Promised

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 December 1944 · page 1

QUICK help in all possible avenues to district cases of distress through bush fires, whose individual applications of any kind were submitted through the local War Agricultural Committee, was promised by the Chairman of the Bush Fire Relief…

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