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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires
23 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Fifteen hundred lives are lost in fires in Britain every year damage to the extent of £10,000,000 is done by them. In an attempt to save these lives and prevent this damage, the United Kingdom Government has set up a Fire Research Organisation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bad luck seems to be dogging Mr. W. Jackson and his sawmill in Malone Street. He has ran into endless trouble with certain residents of the locality,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With sustained heat-wave conditions usually prevailing, the present period of the year is a critical one in relation to the bush-fire danger, pointed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rescuers have taken eighty-one charred bodies from the ice covered ruins of a dance hall at Spandau, which was destroyed by fire at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Concern at the failure of N.S.W. country hotel accommodation service to improve is expressed by the N.R.M.A. aad B.A.C.A. Both organisations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Braidwood Police Court on 10th April, before Mr. T. H. Brooke. P.M., Walter Robert Jackson was charged with at Braidwood on 24th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Friday night an unoccupied home at Tomboye, the residence of the late Mr. Thomas Hockey, was completely destroyed by fire. First to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Braidwood on Thursday had its first fire since the notorious fire bug ceased operating a couple of years ago. Late in the afternoon the fire bell gave the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early on Friday afternoon a fire broke out to Mr. Peter Jones' hamburger shop in Foxlow Street, Captain's Flat, the building being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During Friday afternoon a fire broke cut in the shopping centre of Captain’s Flat and for a time it was feared that the whole shopping…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lieut.-General Spoor, Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Forces in Java, whose troops have been ordered to cease hostilities by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attention is drawn to the imperative necessity for all sections of the community to unite in plans for the prevention of bush fires in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the second time in a few years the house occupied by Mr. Pat Luther at Mongarlowe was destroyed by fire on Monday, 15th September. From…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The annual meetings of the above association was held in the. offices of Woodgers and Calthorpe Limited on Thursday, September 25, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Written permission of the Shire Council was required to light a fire to clear bush, straw, stubble, scrub or grass, Chief Secretary Baddeley has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only good luck averted a serious fire in Braidwood in the early hours of Monday morning. At about 4 a.m. Mr. M. Anderson was awakened by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special precautions to protect the record harvest against fire arising from tractors and other vehicles were announced by the Chief Secretary, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Dear Ruth,” the play that ran for two-and-a-half years on Broadway and about a year-and-a-half in Chincago, has been made by Paramount into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Fortunately for the occupier, a visitor to the locality noticed and extinguished a fire that broke out in one of the dwellings in the racecourse…
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