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Fires & bushfires, 1926

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Wantabadgery Reserve Fire

The Daily Express · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 2

A fire started [?] Saturday on the T. S. and C. R., Wa[?]ery, b[?]ing about 20 [?] of grass. The flames were quickly put under…

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Wagga Fires Two Outbreaks Yesterday Grass Burned and Fencing Damaged

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 2

Throughout the whole of 1925 the Wagga Fire Brigade was called out to only 10 fires. So far this year, though not a month has yet passed, it has…

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Disastrous Fire Aviation Station Destroyed. (Reuter Service) WASHINGTON, Jan[?] 25

The Daily Express · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 2

A fire broke out at Rolling Field— an Army aviation station—and destroyed nine aeroplanes, 12 motors and [?] hanger…

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Victorian Bush Fires

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

Bush fires are raging at Phillip Island, in Western Port Bay, and at Belgrave, and Heather Mount, Victoria, where several mountain week-end…

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Bush Fires Forty Miles Wide SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 1

Terrific bush fires continued to blaze in the Meadow Flat and Tarana districts, which are sweeping the countryside for 40 miles around…

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Heat and Bush Fires The Metropolis Swelters SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 1

Terrific heat prevailed in Sydney this morning. At 11 [?] the shade temperance was 99 degrees, and still rising…

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Bush Fires Victorian Outbreak Settlers in Danger Melbourne

The Daily Express · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 1

Serious b[?]sh fires have swept the Belgrave District and also Phillip Island holiday resort. A number of settlers' homes have been…

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Inquiry Into Fires

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

An inquiry into fires which occurred at 36 York-street, Sydney, on August 20, 1923, and November 28, 1925, when premises occupied by Frank Herman…

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No Fire Insurance

The Daily Express · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

Montreal, will shortly have an industrial properly valued at nearly £200,000 on which not a cent of fire insurance will be placed, as a result…

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Local and General Fire at Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

A fire occurred in the rear portion of the Ford Sales and Service showroon, Broadway, Junee, at 7.30 o'clock last night. The flames commenced…

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Items of News Small Fire at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

A fire occurred in the rear potion of the Ford Sales and Service showroom, Broadway, Junee, at 7.30 o'clock last night. The flames commenced…

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No Naked Lights Ex-coal Inspector's Advice Needless Fires and Explosion Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 1

William Humble, formerly chief inspector of coal mines, told the Coal Commission, presided over by Mr. Justice Edmunds, that there should be…

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Fire at Mt. Morgan Several Buildings Destroyed Rockhampton

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

Early yesterday morning St. Elmo boarding house, the A.W.U. rooms, and the own council's market building at Mt. Morgan were totally…

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Bush Fires Canberra in Danger a Serious Outbreak Canberra, Thursday Night

The Daily Express · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 1

A huge bush [?] now seven miles wide, has burned about ten miles along the Cotter River [?] front is now 14 miles from the…

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Brucedale Farm Fire

The Daily Express · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 2

It was reported in Wagga last night that a fire had occurred at Brucedale during the day on Messrs. Davidson Brothers property. The fire is stated…

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Fire at Forbes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 2

A fire at Forbes destroyed four business premises. The total damage reaches £6000…

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Fire in Merrivale-st., Tumut

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 8

The claugour of the fire-bell about 12.80 a.m. on Tuesday, and the appearance oof flumes and deuse smoke soaring into the heavens caused…

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Bush Fires Raging Near Tumbarumba Advance Towards Bago Forest

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 4

The news was received in Wagga yesterday of serious bush fires burning out towards Tarcutta and Tumbarumba way…

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Hill Country Ablaze Bush Fires Envelop Great Frontages Worst Fire Year in Quarter of a Century Valuable State Forests Imperilled; Much Private Property Destroyed

The Daily Express · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 1

In the past 40 years in the Upper Murray and Southern Tablelands, only 1900 has had greater damage than this summer in grass…

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Fire in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 4

At 8.31 last night a citizen gave the alarm at the door of the fire station that there was a fire at the north and of the town. The brigude and fire…

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