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Fires & bushfires, 1933

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Bush Fire at Manus Prisoners who Fought Flames Remission of Terms SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

The Minister for Justice (Mr. Martin) said that the Government would recommend a remission of the sentences of those prisoners who…

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Carabost and Manus Fires

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 2

Mr. James Parry, district forestry officer, was in Wagga yesterday after having made a survey of the damage done in the Carabost and Manus…

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Fire at Rannock. Mr, Fred Young’s Serious Loss

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 3

Mr. Fred [?] suffered a [?] on Friday last, when a [?] property on his farm. Mr. [?] was cutting…

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Bush Fires Mannus Village Threatened' Wonderful Save by Volunteers

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 1

What threatened to be the most disastrous bush fire ever experienced in the Tumbarumba district broke out on Monday, and, burning on a…

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Bush Fire Near Bathurst Now Held in Check Bathurst

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 1

A message says that after many days of fighting by 300 men a bush fire, with a front of several miles, which raged between Hobbey's yards…

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Car On Fire In Creek Driver Rescues Passengers

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 9

Three resident s of Oaklands--J Thomas George Anderson, and Leslie Nichols--narrowly escaped death on Tuesday morning when a motor car…

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Junee Council Cost of Railway Fire Alarms Brick Area Inquiry Into Water Shortage

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 8

The Mayer (Alderman F. A. Commons) presided at the meeting of the Junee Junee Municipal Council held on Tuesday night, when other present…

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Bush Fires Outbreaks in South Aus. ADELAIDE

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 1

Big bush fires raged in several localities yesterday. Fanned by a 40-mills an hour gale, a fire swept through seven properties near Fort…

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Bush Fires Outbreaks in S.A. ADELAIDE

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 2

Big bosh fires raged in several localities yesterday. Fanned by a 40 mile an hour gate, a fire swept through seven properties near Fort Wakefield…

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A Friday Morning Blaze House Destroyed by Fire

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 2

At 3 a.m., on Friday last, the fire bell clanged, and immediately the local fire brigade got under way. Mr, G. Elwood's house, at Jones’…

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Melbourne Fires Nail Factory Destroyed MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 1

Damage estimated at £59,000 was dons when a fide destroyed the nail factory of S. Cooke .Pty., Ltd., Kavanagh street, South Melbourne. Eight…

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Melbourne Fires Nail Factory Destroyed £50,000 Damage Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 2

Damage estimated at £50,000 was done last night when a fire destroyed the nail factory of S. Cooke Pty. Ltd., Kavanagh street, South…

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Bush Fires Bago Forest Outbreak Now Under Control. Tumut

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 2

It was learned from the forestry of ficer at Tumut to-night that the fire which had been raging in Bago Forest, near Batlow, since Saturday, was…

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Serious Bush Fire Settlers' Homes Menaced Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 1

A serious bush fire is raging between Yackandandah and Kergunyah, and the homes of a number of settlers are menaced. The fire is sweeping…

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Forest Fires Carabost and Mannus

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 4

Mr. James Parry, forestry officer, after having made a survey of the damage done in the Carabost and Mannus-districts, says that it was…

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Wagingoberembee Fire

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 2

The home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wilson, "Riverside" near Wagingoberem bee, and about 36 miles from Wagga, was with almost the whole of its…

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Wagga Fire Brigade

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 February 1933 · page 2

The Wagga Fire Brigade attended 39 calls in 1932, end in doing so travelled 75 miles. The calls were to actual fires 30, false alarms 3, and chimney…

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Fire at Redfern Hosiery Factory Gutted Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 February 1933 · page 1

The biggest fire for several months occurred at Redfern to-night, when the premises of the Gala Hosiery Company were practically gutted. The…

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Big Trundle Fire 7. BUsiness Places Go TRUNDLE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 February 1933 · page 1

Seven shops and their contents, comprising portion of the main business block of the town, were destroy by fire early this morning…

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