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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1929

67 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 4

Telegraphic News Sydney Thursday, 4 p.m. Big Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 November 1929 · page 2

A big fire occurred at Murwlllumbah this morning, by "which the Imperial Hotel was destroyed, in addition to several other adjoining…

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Disasterous Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 November 1929 · page 1

Fire completely destroyed the hom[?] of Mr. Robert J. Hodgson, Morton-st. during the early hours of Saturday morn[?]ng. Mr. Hodgson was awakened…

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Telegraphic News (Australian Press Association Message). Town Wiped Out By Bush Fire Inhabitants Without Food and Clothes EDMONTON, Alberta

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 November 1929 · page 1

Ail the two hundred inhabitnats of the town of Thorhild, fifty miles north of here, are homeless; many are without…

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Ball of Fire

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 6

During a thunderstorm in Brisbane people were terrified to see a large ball of fire burst from the clouds and travel directly towards the city…

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Bush Fires Control on Large Holdings

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 1

Prevention is the main thing in bush fire control, pointed out Mr. S. Wilson of Lake Cowal, in a paper read before a conference of Riverina and…

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First Fire Brigade at Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 2

On 22nd April, 1890, a public meeting was held in the Oddfellows Hall for the purpose of forming a fire brigade and bucket and salvage brigade. The…

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The Year’s Fires £2,000,000 Damage Done in the City

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 December 1929 · page 1

During the year 1929 there were 22 serious fires in Sydney. causing damage age estimated at 2,000,000 In the country there were eight…

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