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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1936

25 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 2

Bomaderry Bush Fires

The South Coast Register · Thursday 12 November 1936 · page 3

Bush [?]created a deal of [?] and alarm on Friday last in the thick timber to the northwest of the town, and although if…

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Bush Fires Good Work of Nowra Fire Brigade Assisting to Check the Spread

The Nowra Leader · Friday 13 November 1936 · page 8

Friday last might well be classed as Black Friday so far as heat and bush fires were concerned. Nowra Fire Brigade bell gave alarm on several…

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Arms Felt As If on Fire Nights of Agony with Neuritis

The Nowra Leader · Friday 27 November 1936 · page 9

She had tried so many "remedies" -- always without result -- that she had little faith in anything. But finally something induced her to try…

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Bush Fire Brigade

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Friday 4 December 1936 · page 5

The meeting held in the factory Board-room, Bimbaya, on Monday night, to revive the local Bush-fire Brigade, was attended by Messrs…

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What a Man ! Chewed Glass and Ate Fire

The Nowra Leader · Friday 11 December 1936 · page 7

During the hearing of a case at Charleville (Queensland), in which Mrs. K. Burns was charged with having murdered Triorly, her step-father,…

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