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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1955

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Matong Bush Fire Brigade

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 28 October 1955 · page 3

A well attended meeting of the Matong bush Fire Brigade was held on October 19…

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Rannock Bush Fire Brigade

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 28 October 1955 · page 7

The Annual meeting of the Rannock Bush Fire Brigade was held on October 6, and was…

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Shire Bush Fire Preparations

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 4 November 1955 · page 1

The Coolamon Shire, with its area of 900 square miles, is better prepared than most for…

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Decisions at Shire Bush Fire Conference

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 4 November 1955 · page 3

Many interesting plants concerning bushfire fighting procedure were ventilated and to some extent cleared up, and several recommendations were…

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Grass Fire Hazard Could Be Serious

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 4 November 1955 · page 2

Devastation caused by grass fires every summer is immense, crops, pastures and stock are destroyed and homesteads razed…

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Prohibition on the Lighting of Fires

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 10 November 1955 · page 8

The Chief Secretary (Mr. C. A. Kelly) announced last week that the method for prohibiting the lighting of fires…

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Council Discusses Bushfire Precautions

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 18 November 1955 · page 1

The Coolamon Shire Council, at its meeting on Tuesday last, settled down immediately to discuss the bushfire menace and the recommendations…

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Season’s First Crop Fire

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 November 1955 · page 4

The first crop fire this season in the Riverina occurred in an oat crop owned by Mr. J…

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Aussie Rules Under Fire At Temora

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 November 1955 · page 6

During the recent football season, comment was made in Temora on the mercenary…

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Auto Header Damaged by Fire

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 9 December 1955 · page 2

An Auto Header, owned by Mr. H. D, Hawthorne, “Uiey,” Ardlethan, was badly…

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Clover Stack Fire

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 16 December 1955 · page 1

Last Friday at about 5 p.m. Geoffrey, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Trevor…

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Fire, But No Water

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 23 December 1955 · page 5

On Saturday last at 9.30 p.m., Mr. Sharrock, a recent new comer to Ganmain, residing in…

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