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South Coast · Fires & bushfires
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Saturday was not enough, but yesterday morning opened with indications of. greater beat. And so it proved, a maximum of just on 114 in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early on Sunday afternoon last, in the terrific heat, a call came from Tapitllie for fire-fighters, the homesteads of the Barclay family and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At Bega Court on Tuesday, before Mr J. S. Balmain, Police Magistrate Edwin Blyton and Walter Holmes were charged with the careless [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prompt action by the Berry Volunteer Bushfire Brigade, assisted by a change in the wind, saved the collages near the Berry Beach from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District residents will not readily forget the bush fires of January 1942. At about noon on Sunday afternoon, the conflagration started back in Wandella mountain and whipped by a hot westerly, soon spread to the adjacent holdings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sunday, 4th. January, was a day to be Remembered in the district. Terrific heat developed early in the day. and when westerly, winds set in it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr T. H. Ramsey, “Glen Alpin.” Candelo, writes: “The fires on last Sunday week, burnt everything they came in contact with. The heat and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday bush fires from Wagonga and the Dromedary mountain spread and were within two miles of Central Tilba, threatening to sweep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Never in the history of this district have settlers and residents experienced such bush fires as that encircling the district at present. Following Sunday's conflagration, flames whipped by a hot westerly, spread rapidly on Monday to Yourie and on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires did considerable damage around Tilba district, threatening the town on Tuesday. Details will be given next week. We…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Following representations made by Mr J. W. Selffert, M.I.A. the premier has directed that special enquires be made so that he could be fully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the last Cambewarra Shire Council meeting, the clerk, Mr. Green, bad quite a task in reading a very lengthy and interesting detailed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr E. H. Filmer, captain of the Tantawanglo bush fire brigade, was in Bega on Tuesday, and, discussing the recent fires at Candelo with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At [?]Kangaroo Valley Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M., a man named Wallis was summoned under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queer, the pranks that hushires occasionally play. One day last week Messrs Roy and âTibâ Goward, of Eden, went out to the Ludwig…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As briefly stated in last week's issue, bush fires had menaced the town of Central Tilba on Tuesday and Thursday of last week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. R. N. Beale, M.L.A said at the meeting of dairymen yesterday that if settlers who were losers by the bush fires, would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Kangaroo Valley Police Court, on Wednesday, before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, S.M., F.A. Wallis (for whom Mr. MacDonald, of Marriott,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. R. N. Beale, M.L.A said at the meeting of dairymen yesterday that if settlers who were losers by the bush fires, would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr J. Seiffiert, M.L.A., writes Mr H Wiles, Candelo “I attach hereto a communication that I have received from the Premier relative to my…
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