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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1922

9 stories in South Coast's papers

Bega Fire Brigade

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1922 · page 3

Tho following member of the Board of Fire Brigade Commission visited Bega on Monday: Hon. E. H. Farrar, M.L.C. (president), Ale. C. Pins…

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[?]Rats Cause Fire

The Nowra Leader · Friday 27 January 1922 · page 7

[?] Friday night at 12 o'clock, [?] Ingold and E. Booth were [?]ing, say polities, in front of the [?]tel, when Sid noticed a light in…

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Kiama Fire. Big Store Gutted. Good Save by Firemen

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 March 1922 · page 7

Major's Arcade, one of the big stores of the South Coast, established in the early sixties by the late Stephen Major, was totally destroyed by fire…

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Fire it Kameruka

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1922 · page 2

A large weather-board building, in which Mr Andrew Godfrey and his family resided, at Kan[?]ereruka, close to the Estate’s Island cheese…

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Fire and lee. Maitland's Early History Prehistoric Peeps

The Nowra Leader · Friday 1 September 1922 · page 2

Professor David, of Sydney University in a lecture the other night on the geelogy of the Maitland district, said that he could imagine the time when…

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Fire and Ice. Maitland Early History Prehistoric Pumps

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 4

Professor David of Sydney Un-[?] in a lecture the [?] on the eulogy of the Maitland district said he could [?] the…

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Fire At Terara

The Nowra Leader · Friday 27 October 1922 · page 6

At the Mackenzie homestead at Terara on Saturday forenoon last a fire broke out in one of the barns which was almost totally destroyed; it…

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Fighting Bush Fires. Paper contributed to Bimbapa Agricultural Bureau by Mr. J. J. HEFFERNAN

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1922 · page 2

Bush fires can cause more serious loss to a farmer than any of the many troubles with which he has to contend. Nearly always a the is…

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Narrow Escape From Fire

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1922 · page 1

On Boxing Day, while the Nowra water supply was off on the higher levels, the town, or the south-western portion of it, was in great danger of…

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