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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1924

30 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2

Picturs Show Panic. Film on Fire

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1924 · page 4

A burst of flame caused a nanic at a Port Melbourne picture show on Thursday night, when 600 were in the building…

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Fire Brigade Captain Resigns

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 1

After occupying the position of Captain of the Queanbeyan Fire Brigade for many years, Aid. H. T. Land has resigned the office,…

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Motor Car Destroyed by Fire

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 2

Some excitement was occasioned on Saturday night by the ringing of the fire-bell about 9.30 o'clock. Hundreds of men rushed to the scene…

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Disastrous Fire

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1924 · page 2

At 3 o'clock on Sunday morning last the Steam Packet Hotel at Nelligen, together with adjoining cottages, were totally destroyed by fire…

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Fire at Berlang

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1924 · page 2

Mr. Jas. O'Heir, of Berlang, sustained a heavy loss as the result of a shed containing 30 tons of wattle bark being destroyed by fire. It is…

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Fire at Major's Creek Coroner's Inquest

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 July 1924 · page 7

The Coroner, Mr. J. J. Donnelly, J.P., held an inquiry at Major's Creek on Tuesday into the origin of the fire on 10th July at Berlang,…

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Trapped by Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 July 1924 · page 2

Trapped by flames while trying to save horses from the burning stables of W. E. Budd and Co. at Camperdown last night, watchman John…

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Another Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 October 1924 · page 3

Damages amounting to approximately £65,000 was done by a fire which swept over Goodlet & Smith's tile factory at Merrylands last…

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Disastrous Fire Shop and Residence Gutted

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 31 October 1924 · page 2

Queanbeyan residents were called upon to witness another disastrous fire last night. when the shop and residence at the intersection of Uriarra…

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Bush Fires. Danger This Year

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1924 · page 4

The Commonwealth Meteorologist, Mr. Hunt, desires editors of provincial papers to kindly stress the danger from bush and grass fires this…

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