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Fires & bushfires, 1906

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Bush Fires

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 2

A bush fire in the Grenfell district destroyed 30,000 sores of grass and crops, also fonces,sheds, etc…

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The Willie Ploma Bush Fire Brigade. Instructions to Members and Landowners

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 3

THE Secretary of the Willie Ploma Bush Fire Brigade has prepared the following instructions for the guidance of members, of the Brigade and others…

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Careless Use of Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 2

People who have suffered from the effects of the fires should recognise how necessary it is that those who on guilty of breaches of the Careless…

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Painter Runs Amuck. Fires on Friends and Police

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 4

Great excitement was caused at the intersection of Forbes and William stroets, Woolloomooloo on Saturday night by the extraordinary behaviour…

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Bush Fire Brigade. Meeting at Coolac

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 3

DESPITE the busy times and the unpropitious weather prevailing that evening, there was a big muster of landholders (and others in sympathy…

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Ariah Park. FIRES

The Temora Star · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 3

On the 15th December a fire broke out on Kerr's consuming about 2,400 acres of grass. On the 21st a fire broke out a Thomas's who lost about 100…

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Careless Use of Fire a Swagman Who Didn't Care. Forbes

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 1

At the police court this morning a man named Joseph Ogden was fined £2, or one month, for the careless use of fire. He admitted that he watched a fire start burning…

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Meeting at Lake Albert. Bush Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 2

A well-attended meeting was held at the public Hall, Lake Albert, on Tuesday night, to consider the advisability of forming a Bush Fire Brigade. After…

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Lake Albert [?] Fire Brigade Formed

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 4

A meeting convented by a number of the leading residents of Lake Albert was held at the Public Hall, on Tuesday night to consider the advisability…

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Around the Camp Fire. Give Yourself a Show

The Worker · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 3

To, my fellow sinners all, who, in hope and doubt, Through the Commonwealth to-night watch tho Old Year out," New Year's Resolutions are jerry-built I know, But I want to say to you, "Give yourselves a show."…

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The Bush Fire Brigade Movement. Meeting at Coolac

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 6

Despite the busy times and the unpropitious weather prevailing that evening, there was a big master of landlords (and others in sympathy…

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Bush Fires

The Temora Star · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 5

A correspondent writes from Trungley Hall, under date the 3rd instant, as follows: We had a fire yesterday. it broke out at the camp of Mr. Woods, on Temors…

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Bush Fire Brigade

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 3
Also in The Cootamundra Liberal

The meeting to form a bush fire brigade convened by the Mayor for Tuesday night lapsed for want of a quorum, only eight persons (two fanners, three aldermen, and…

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District News. Henty. Bush Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 6

Another bush fire broke out in the district on Sunday. The scene of the outbreak was on Buckinging Station. The changing of the Public School bell caused…

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Destructive Bush Fire at Junee. Two Men Charged. Junee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 2

A fire, which at times threatened the whole country side, started in Mr. C. A. Blatch's wheat paddock on Wednesday, and getting at once beyond…

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Police Court. WEDNESDAY. Before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.M. Bush Fire Fiends

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 2

Three young men named John Morgan, William Dunstan, and William Robbins, were charged with a breach of the Careless Use of Fire Act—leaving a camp fire…

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Domestic Tragedy. Wife Fires at Her Husband. Then Kills Herself. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 5

There was a case of attempted murder and a suicide at Leichardt to-night. Margaret Noonan, wife of Thomas Noonan, carter, at Tooth's…

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Careless Use of Fire. the Men Convicted. Junee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 2

In connection with Wednesday's bush fire Edward Crozier and Leonard Dawson, were charged at the Police Court with the careless use of fire, and were…

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Bush Fires

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

There has been another disastrous bush fire in the Forbes district. Many farmers were completely burnt out. Thousands of acres of crops were…

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