Woman Killed Camp Fire Explasion
At Lake Munmorah, near Wyong, on Sunday night, a family party put a tub of prawns over a fire to [?] using an old tail shaft from…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
36 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Wood Pile Fire
The Fire Brigade was called out during the lunch hour on Friday last to an outbreak of fire in the rear of Mr. Frank Williams, pastrycook…
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Following the incidents which occurred in Braidwood just prior to the holidays in connection with the lighting of fires in and close to the town,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys Cowra Store
On Wednesday, fire destroyed the large departmental store of Squire, Pepper & Co. Ltd. at Cowra. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Hydrants' at Cooma
Cooma Municipal Council had decided fire hydrants in Cooma be raised to the level of the street surface and painted white. This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deputy Captains to Fire Brigades
The subject has been before Yarrowlumla Shire Council on several occasions recently. Councillors were not to easy in their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Councils Want Bush Fire Legislation
“We have once again been most fortunate that the weather, except for the Christmas season, has kept bush fires to a minimum. But we…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Fire
Word has been received in Braidwood that the fine big homestead "Khan Yunis," Krawarree, was [?]tally destroyed by fire on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Freak Incident Bush Fire Started by Million to One Chance
Gundagai district grazier, Mr. Ted Reardon, was the principal actor in a freak incident recently, when by a million to one chance, he started a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Foreign Policy Under Fire All-Party Parliamentary Committee Urged
Crowded public, diplomatic arid Press galleries listened in rapt attention to a lucidly forceful ex-position of foreign affairs, with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Foreign Policy Under Fire All Party Parliamentary Committee Urged
Crowded public, diplomatic and Press galleries listened in rapt attention to a lucidly forceful exposition of foreign affairs, with particular…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Case of Fire
The Captain of the Fire Brigade (Mr. H. Barber), advises should an outbreak of fire occur in the municipality,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Case of Fire
The Captain of the Fire Brigade (Mr. H. Barber) advises that should an outbreak of fire occur in the Municipality,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →House on Fire Brigade’s Good Save
Shortly after 10 o’clock this morning, a fire broke out in a room at the rear of Mr. R. B. Mclnnes’s residence, 16 Morrissett Street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gosford Fire
A building in Erina Street, Gosford, used as a depot for electrical equipment by the Brisbane Waters County Council, was burnt out on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Hydrants Periodical Attention Essential
Aldermen Freebody, at the meeting last week of the Municipal Council, said the Captain of the Fire Brigade had drawn attention to. the fact that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade Costs Unfair Treatment, Says C.p. Leader
The local governing bodies were being treated inequitably in the new scale of contributions for the upkeep of the Fire Brigades, the Leader of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Higher Fire Brigade Costs. Increased Insurance Premiums Likely
Increased charges to be levied on insurance companies for the upkeep of the Fire Brigades under a Bill now going through the State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unknown Burden for L.g. Councils Meeting Increased Cost of Fire Brigades
The new allocation of the costs of maintaining the fire brigades was criticised in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. R. S. Vincent (C.P., Raleigh)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thirteen Die in U.S. Fire New York, Monday (A.A.P.)
Thirteen firefighters, including 12 parachutists, have died in a fierce forest fire which is still raging In the Montana mountains…
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