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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires
30 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
A sensational discovery has been made that at least part of £1,750,000 in Bank of New Zealand notes, placed in Sydney incinerator for destruction,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three hundred merino stud ram lambs, valued at £300, were burned to death when a woolshed on Buckiinguy Station, Nyngan, was destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The police and local residents worked feverishly yesterday burning firebreaks to prevent the spread of a bush fire at Menai, near Sutherland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The drapery store of Peterson Bros., Ltd., in Cooma-street, Yass, was practically destroyed by fire early on Tuesday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two shops were destroyed by fire in the business centre of the township of Taralga, about 30 miles from Goulburn, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A five-room house near the racecourse in Gordon Avenue was totally destroyed by fire early on Saturday morning. It was not until 4.30 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When a fire broke cut in a house at Caringbah shortly after midnight, the members of a family named Bosley only escaped in their night attire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney's biggest fire for five years occurred, in a business block in York Street, near the King Street intersection on Saturday morning. Damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alan Luke Colverwell, 45, grazier, Burbong, was committed for trial at Canberra from the Canberra Police Court on Tuesday on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great interest centred on the Imperial Defence debate in the House of Commons to-night when crowded galleries included foreign diplomats and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A houseboat, comprising six rooms, was burnt to the water's edge in Kogarah Bay early thl smorning under mysterious circumstances. Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After a hearing which lasted six days and a retirement of five hours, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiffs, with damages assessed at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When the fire-bell rang on Tuesday night, at about 7.30, there were a great many people, including several of the firemen, who imagined it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Queanbeyan Fire Brigade was called to a fire at Collett’s bakery shortly after 8 o’clock yesterday morning, but, though the brigade turned out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A disastrous fire occurred in the main business portion of Tullamore, a small western township between Bogan Gate and Tottenham, early…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There are, relative to the number of vehicles in service, so few serious car fires that most; motorists .look, upon such a risk as a very remote contingency,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the worst disasters in Central. Germany occurred when a munition factory at Reinadorf blew up while working at full pressure…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire which broke out in the broom factory at Tumut early this morning was responsible for damage estimated at several thousand pounds. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The necessity of using Are retardant materials in modern building construction was clearly demonstrated by the disastrous fire that recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Just as most people were partaking of lunch yesterday the fire-bell rang cut, and there was a hurried exodus to see where the blaze was…
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