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

Fires & bushfires, 1927

309 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 2 of 16

FINED 30/ For £40,000 Damage Aftermath of Bush Fires

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 1

The big fire which swept the Murrumbidgee Valley, above Wagga, [?] December 10, had its sequel in the Wagga Police Court this week, when…

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20,000 LOST Big Dorrigo Blaze

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 2

A fire broke out in premises occupied by J. H. Davis and Co. storekeepers, Dorrigo, on Sunday night, and before it was extinguished many…

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Fire at Grenfell Tar Boiler Catches Alight. Motor Car Partly Destroyed. Business Premises Threatened for a Time. Grenfell

Cowra Free Press · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 9

A remarkable fire broke out in Main Street to-day through the Municipal Council’s tar boiler catching fire. It quickly spread to a car owned by Mr…

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Bush Fires and Engines

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 1

At a public meeting at Wellington recently, when it was decided to take a test case against the Railway Commissioners for damages sustained by…

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Fire Relief

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 2

This morning Messrs. Douglass (Mayor), H. E. Moore, Jas. Thompson, W. Jones and R. H. Taylor, visited the following…

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Excitement in Main Street Tar Boiler Catches Fire

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 2

Great excitement was caused in Main Street at about 2 p.m. on Friday, when the Council's tar boiler burst into flames, and caused great…

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Bush Fire Relief Government Action

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 5

In reply to questions asked in the Legislative Assembly on the previous day with regard to the relief of sufferers from bush fires, the Minister…

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Bush Fires at Wamboyne Fifty Thousand Acres Swept Grass and Fencing Losses

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 2

The Wamboyne district was fated not to escape the fire fiend after all. When the great conflagration of "Black Sunday," and the subsequent…

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After the Fires

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 2

The country about Forbes that was swept by bush fires early last month, is making a wonderful recovery, in consequence of the recent showers of…

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Fire at Goolagong

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 2

A fire broke out adjacent to Mr. Sid Watson’s property and, fanned by a strong northerly, spread over his paddocks and into Mr. Jas. Beath’s…

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Fires in Melbourne Incendiarism Suspected (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 1

A large warehouse in Coles Lane Melbourne, was gutted by fire yesterday. The adjoining premises were saved…

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Careless Use of Fire Alleged. Cases Against Railway Men Dismissed

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 4

At the Police Court, Tottenham. yesterday, before Mr. Nott, P.M. William Murray, ganger, and William Henry Wheatley, fettler, both in the…

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Big Fire at Bena Huge Tract of Country Devastated Damage Represents Thousands of Pounds

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 1

One of the largest and most destructive bush fires experienced here for many years raged in the Bena district on Saturday and Sunday last. As a…

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Bush Fires Most Disastrous for 20 YEARS

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 4

The landowners of the portions of Bena and Euglo districts affected must) long remember the terrific, and disastrous fire that swept through the…

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Tullamore. Bush Fire Compensation

Western Champion · Thursday 20 January 1927 · page 15

A largely attended meeting of those affected by the recent disastrous bush fire in this district was held in the Kitchener Hall on Thursday last and…

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Outbreak of Fire

Western Champion · Thursday 20 January 1927 · page 13

On Friday, about 12.30 p.m., a fire broke out in Mr. S. M. Berrell's (late Mr. M. Lyons') slaughter yard paddock beyond the Trucking yards, starting…

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Hill Street Fire

Western Champion · Thursday 20 January 1927 · page 13

On Saturday night about 11.15 a five roomed weatherboard cottage in Hill street occupied by Mr. Ernest Charles, was practically destroyed by fire. The…

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Alectown West Fire. Coroner Holds Exhaustive Inquiry. Responsibility Placed on Railway

Western Champion · Thursday 20 January 1927 · page 3

An Inquiry into the circumstances of the fire which broke out near Alectown West siding on 10th December last was held by the District Coroner,…

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Goolagong Bush Fire

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 9

Last Wednesday brought, as the Wednesday before did, a fire. It broke out on Mr. Andy Daly's farm, opposite the Hilton School, and travelled…

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Monument Flats Serious Bush Fire

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 9

One of the most serious bush fires that has occurred in this district for some years, broke out on Saturday morning about 10 o'clock, and raged…

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