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Fires & bushfires, 1926

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Bush Fires at Bathurst

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 November 1926 · page 2

Bush fires with a front of [?] are sweeping the country surrounding Bathurst. So far no serious damage has been reported…

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Bush Fires on the North-west Stroud

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 November 1926 · page 1

The whole of the Lower North Coast south of the Manning is enshrouded in a pall of smoke. Much valuable timber has been destroyed…

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Half-mile Blaze Lismore

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 November 1926 · page 2

A bush fire, half a mile wide, at Chelmsford is doing a lot of damage. Dry grass, five feet high in places, is burning. Dairymen are removing…

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Big Cooperage Fire

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 November 1926 · page 2

A fire which broke out at the premie[?] of Rasmusson, Wyatt and Brotchie Ltd., coopers, at Mascot, shortly after midnight, caused damage estimated at…

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Victorian Bush fires

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 November 1926 · page 4

A serious bush five menaced the plantations and homesteads at inglewood, Victoria, yesterday, but a lucky change of wind removed the danger. Heavy…

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Bush Fires Near Glen Innes Glen Innes

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 November 1926 · page 1

Many of the hills, near Glen Innes are ablaze with bush fires…

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Timber Mills Burnt Blaze at Redhead MILTON

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 November 1926 · page 1

Damage estimated at over £3500 was done when a fire wiped out Redhead Mill, upon which the small village of Rodhead (between Uilladulla and…

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Fires in Fifteen Suburbs Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 November 1926 · page 2

Fires raged yesterday in fifteen suburbs, but were extinguished before serious damage was done…

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Mind the Fires What Mr Reid Promised

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 11 November 1926 · page 1

"I recognise the danger of bushfires, and when I view the wonderful growth of feed in this district, I am fully seized with the fact that every…

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Queanbeyan Fire QUEANBEYAN

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 November 1926 · page 1

Yesterday afternoon the premises of Messrs Kaye and McGiven, motor body builders, Monaro street, Queanbeyan, were destroyed by a disastrous…

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Motor Car on Fire

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 November 1926 · page 2

Mr. S. Montgomery, mail contractor, of Simmons-strect, Wagga, suffered considerable damage to his car early this week, when it burst into…

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Clothing on Fire Little Girl Burned

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 11 November 1926 · page 1

A little girl, Verena (13), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Roberts, of Cootamundra, was badly burned about the body and arms on Sunday…

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Mind the Fires

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 November 1926 · page 2

"I recognise the danger of bush fires, and when I view the wonderful growth of feed in this [?] I am fully seized with the fact that every…

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Motor Car on Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 November 1926 · page 6

Mr. S. Montgomery, mall contractor, Wagga, suffered considerable damage to his car this week, when it burst into flame about five miles out…

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Big Fire at Temora

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 November 1926 · page 2

A fire at Temora on Monday morning, moring, when James Thoms, Ltd., Temora stores were totally destroyed, causing destroyed, causing of…

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North Coast Fires Bullock Team Nearly Trapped Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 November 1926 · page 2

Disastrous bush fires continue to rage throughout the country. At Bungabee, near Lismore, a bullock driver named Graham was nearly…

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Temora's Big Fire. Damage £25,900. Thom's Store Goes

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 November 1926 · page 6

At 5.20 last Monday morning flumes wore discerned shooting out of the roof of be drapery department of James Thom, Lid's, big store at…

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Bush Fires Grafton

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 November 1926 · page 1

A bush fire near Grafton was ex-tinquished after 3000 acres of grass were burnt…

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Bush Fire Precautions

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 November 1926 · page 2

Mr. J. D. Held, Southern Area Com[?]issined, writes us: "In view of the phenomenal growth of grass alongside the line, the risk of fires this…

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Bush Fires Sydney Suburbs Suffer SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 November 1926 · page 1

There were 35 outbreaks of fire in the suburbs on Saturday, and 30 yesterday. At Hornsby many acres of bush…

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