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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1924

5 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

"Consequential" Losses Through Fire

The Bombala Times · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 4

When a tradesman has a fire on his premises he derives some consolation from the fact that he has been paying premiums to an…

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The Cooma Fire Station

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 3 March 1924 · page 2

The Board of Fire Commissioners of N.S.W. on a visit to the Southern and coastal centres, called at Cooma on Saturday, and landed…

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Judging Shell-fire by Music

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 4 July 1924 · page 2

How a keen musical car became useful to the Austrian army is told by a violinist whose ear detected the difference in sound made by a shell that…

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Greek Balls of Fire

Delegate Argus · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 3

One of the most curious of all anti-aircraft devices is a German invention, and was known to our airmen as "green halls," of "flaming…

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Fire at Pambula

The Bombala Times · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 4

On Friday night, about ll o'clock, Mr. J. Kennedy's hairdressing shop in Pambula's main street, was totally destroyed by fire and Mr. S. Mahoney's…

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