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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1917

10 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Suspicious Fires at Culcairn

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

On Sunday fires were discovered in the grass in the yar[?] and in the washhouse of the Commercial bank premises at…

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Large Fire at Chippendale

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 2

Eastway's factory at Wellington Street, Chippendale, caught fire last night and was burnt from top to bottom, Nine other…

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Setting the Thames on Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 4

Whenever we say to any one, "He will never set the Thames on fire," we mean, of course, that he is not a very intelligent or industrious person…

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Perpetual Fires

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1917 · page 4

In many parts of the works there are sacred fires to have been burning for upwards of a thousand years. Such is the sacred fire of Beheram, reputed…

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Fire [?] Visit of Inspector

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 3 September 1917 · page 2

On Saturday last Mr. G. H. Dadd, Inspector N.S.W Fire Brigades, paid a visit to Cooma, for the purpose of the obtaining…

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Big Fire at Kameruka

The Bombala Times · Friday 28 September 1917 · page 1

A disastrous fire occurred at Kameruka on Saturday night, when the Estate office, store, butcher's shop, and post office were destroyed. They were…

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Bush Fire. Four Men Burnt to Death a Desperate Fight

The Bombala Times · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 6

Brisbane, Monday.—Details regarding the recent bush fire at Warnda Station, in the Boulia district, when four station hands lost their…

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Fire at Royal Hotel

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 5 November 1917 · page 2

Early on saturday morning a lady boarder. who was sleeping on the verandah of the Royal Hotel, because awakened by…

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Cooma Fire Brigade

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 14 December 1917 · page 2

Mr. G. H. Dadd, Inspector of the Fire Brigades Board Sydney. paid a visti to Cooma on Tuesday and left by last…

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Soon Got a Fire

Delegate Argus · Thursday 20 December 1917 · page 3

Sir Francis Johnson, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the province of Quebec, on one of his circuits in the eastern townships during the winter, put up at a country hotel…

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