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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1905

153 stories in New England's papers · page 8 of 8

Destructive Fires

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 4

Miles of country in the Condoblin district, baa been iaid waste by bush fires, including fourteen thousand acres of. wheat crop, valued at two…

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Fire Brigades Bill, Etc

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1905 · page 2

The Chief Secretary now states that the Fire Brigades Bill will not be proceeded with until next session. He also states that he has not yet received Judge Murray's [?]…

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Telegrams. Sydney. Tuesday. Bash Fires

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 December 1905 · page 4

BUSH FIRES HAVE Swept about 100, 000 acres is the Condoblin district Mnch fencing has been destroyed. A Weaithyfastoralist…

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Bush Fires

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 4

THE season of the year daring which bush fires are to he feared has now begun. and in the Hay district the fire fiend has…

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Bush Fires

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 4

Coolamon storekeepers are to be complimented on their spirit. In view of the danger that the country wiil run during the summer months from…

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Prevention of Bush Fires

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 2

To-day a public meeting will be held to take into consideration the best means to prevent bush fires. This is in…

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Prevent Bush Fires

Guyra Argus · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 3

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

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Christmas Fires

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 3
Also in The Inverell Times, The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record

When bright Christmas fires are glowing And the fields are white with snow, Down beside the fair Penobscot There comes back the long ago…

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Kindles Holy Fires

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 2
Also in The Inverell Times, The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record

My sentiment is that the Christmas is, of all our festivities, the one most thoroughly interwoven with the home and family. It is the day which kindles in…

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Disastrous Fire

The Inverell Times · Thursday 28 December 1905 · page 2

A disastrous fire occured at Mr. A. Croft's, Byron, on Boxing Day, at about 1 o'clock. Mr. Croft came out of the house on to the verandah, and had sat there only for a few…

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