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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1917

364 stories in Riverina's papers · page 19 of 19

Destructive Bush Fire

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1917 · page 4

Between 1 and 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in a 50acre wheat crop of Mr. J. Doolan, on the Tumbarumba-road, adjoining…

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Big Bush Fire. Thousands of Acres Swept. Property Owner Missing

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 December 1917 · page 2

Hundreds of thousands of acres of grass and timber country in the Gunbar and Greenhills district, near Hay, have been swept by fire, which is…

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The Tarcutta Fire

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 December 1917 · page 2

The fire referred to in Saturday's issue as having reached Mr. Nat. Flannigan's property and which was travelling on a frontage of about a mile in…

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Victorian Sensation. Farmers' Paddocks Set on Fire

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 December 1917 · page 1

Last Saturday week a sensation was caused in Rushworth, when several paddocks containing luxuriant dry grass about a foot and a half high, belonging…

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