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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1905

165 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 8 of 9

CORRESPONDENCE (To the Editor of the Lachlander.) Bush Fire Extinguishers

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 December 1905 · page 9

DEAR SIR, -- I would like to recommend (through the medium of your widely circulated paper) to the notice of those of your leaders who are…

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Wamboyne Fires

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 December 1905 · page 8

The damage done by the extensive bush fires in the above district was referred to in our last issue. Since then we have been favored with an…

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Bush Fires

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 17
Also in Western Champion

THIS year points to more bush fires in our district than any year which we have yet experienced. Looking to the cause of such vast destruction we find that the trouble…

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Bush Fires

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 11

A CORRESPONDENT writes from experience:—Out at the Hartwood fire on Sunday one individual endeavoured to stop the volunteers from going to put…

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Bush Fires. Peak Hill

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 11

ON Monday afternoon a fire started on Mr. Eugene Wunch's property near the Racecourse, and notwithstanding the best efforts of about fifty men…

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Bush Fire Extinguisher

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 4

ONE of the handiest and most effective bush fire extinguishers that we know of is the "beater," formed of strips of greenhide two or three feet long and…

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Bush Fires and their Prevention

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 4

The season of the year during which bush fires are to be feared has now begun, and we have been requested by the Government to invite attention to the…

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Fires Near Tomingley

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 17

MR. H. McGIFFORD, of Happy Valley, Tomingley, has had a narrow escape of his property being destroyed, bush fires breaking out on three occasions…

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Bush Fires

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 10

THE season of the year during which bush first are to be feared has now begun, and we have been requested by the Government to invite attention to the matter, and to express the…

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Camp-fires

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 20 December 1905 · page 8

Gleaming hp among the, ranges when the, dark creeps o'er the earth; Sparkling on the desert stretches, where the het Winds have their birth;…

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Primitive Fire Alarm

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 20 December 1905 · page 4

Most of the towns in New Jersey, U.S.A., even including so large a place as Long Branch, have steel wheel fire…

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Telephones for bushfires

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 20 December 1905 · page 3

The following letters bearing on the above subject have been received by Mr Crowley, Hon. Secretary to the bush fire prevention…

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Bush Fires

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 2
Also in The Peak Hill Express

The immunity from bush fires enjoyed by the district this summer up to the present is apparently about to be removed. Several hints of mild character…

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Bush Fire Rules

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 5

THE following few and simple rules have been formulated by the recently organised Bush Fire Brigade at Upper Maffra (Vic.):— (1) That all…

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Bush Fire Brigade

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 2

A Bush Fire Brigade has been formed at Eugowra, Mr. G. H. Vitnell, Secretary. The brigade is to procure two fire fighting pumps, one to be stationed at…

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Local Bush Fires. Great Destruction of Property

Western Champion · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 13

One of the most destructive bush fires which has visited this district for years occurred on Wednesday afternoon, when a strip of country to the…

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Fire Extinguishing

Western Champion · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 12

An interesting exhibition of a hew fire extinguishing apparatus introduced by the Underwriters' Association was given on Wednesday afternoon on a…

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BushFires

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 4

The surrounding district has been very fortunate in regard to bush from until a few days ago. There were certainly several small files reported, but the only damage…

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