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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1918

10 stories in South Coast's papers

Y.M.C.A. and the Home Fires

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 February 1918 · page 6

D.G.M. forwards us a communication, in which he says :—"The gravest danger which our boys face in this war is not death, great as is their…

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Commercial. Keep the home fires burning—buy War Loan Bonds

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 March 1918 · page 5

John Bridge and Co. report under date March 9:— Cattle.—1,649 yarded, mostly good to prime. Keen competition improved…

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The Tanks. German Account of Their Doings. Fire-spitting Monsters

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1918 · page 6

Writing from The Hagne recently, the “Daily Mail” correspondent quote from the “Cologne Gazette” Dr. Georg Wegener’s account of the part taken by…

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Fire at Cambewarra

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 July 1918 · page 2

Mr. George Sharman's kitchen was burned to the ground early on Monday, morning. It was a wooden building, detached from the house, and was…

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The Latest Yesterday Allies Pinching the Enemy Entire Salient Under Fire. Friday morning

Southern Star · Saturday 27 July 1918 · page 2

The "Times" Amsterdam correspondent says that a Berlin message states that 200 member of the social revolutionary party at Moscow were…

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Miscellaneous. the Prevention of Fire. In Grain Crops

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1918 · page 6

The following recommendations for wheat growers have been issued by the College of Agriculture of the University of California:…

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[?] of Gun Fire

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 October 1918 · page 8

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Inutility of Fire-Breaks

The Nowra Leader · Friday 1 November 1918 · page 3

Mr. A. J. Gallagher, Forest Guard, Nowra, writes:-"I have no hesitation in stating that endeavour to minimize the risk of…

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Behind the Curtain of Fire

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 1 November 1918 · page 4

A little group of horsemen spurred done the road and [?] in the [?] of the [?] up which it [?] they demounted and sought[?] top, [?] the [?]…

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Unsatisfactory Sanitary Arrangements at Fire Station

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1918 · page 4

At the meeting of the Nowra Council, on Monday, Ald. Holloway complained of a w.c. being erected at the new fire station residence…

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