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South Coast · Fires & bushfires
114 stories in South Coast's papers · page 5 of 6
Following Imlay Shire Councilâs request to the Department of Local Government for additional fire fighting equipment, the Department has told the Council that if equipment is urgently required…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“I can say that if it had not been for the manpower that came out from Bega, during the terrible fires last summer, there would have been few farmhouses and buildings saved on the farms in the Bega…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a meeting of captains of local volunteer bush fire brigades, held in Bega recently, it was decided to form a bush fire fighting unit in Bega and have it fully equipped and well trained…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Doreen Wilton, aged 13 years, of Bunga, received second degree burns to the rear of her legs and fight hand,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. A. G. Enticknap, Minister for Public Works, has approved a preliminary grant of £1,000 to the Imlay Shire Council, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Telegraph Rugby League Skill Contest has brought in an additional sum of £4200 for the N.S.W. Bush Fire Relief Fund, a substantial amount of which conies to this district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. A. G. Enticknap, Minister for Public Works, has approved a special grant of £9,000 to Mumbulla Shire from the funds at his disposal under the terms of the Commonwealth Aid Roads Grant…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Berry Fire Brigade received a call about 9.16 p.m. on Friday last from Gerroa, to assist fight a fire that had broken out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter’s Hill Municipal Council forwarded a cheque for £142, the proceeds of a bushfire relief fund for Imlay Shire, at last meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Imlay, following a request by informed Imlay Shire Council that there will be no difficulty in recruiting members for a volunteer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Andrew Francis Moon, of of Bega, was convicted on a charge of having left a fire, which he had lit in the open,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A statement of accounts of the Bega Busk Fire Relief Fund shows that nearly £25,000 has been distributed to farmers in this district. Cash relief has been given to 160…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A car driven by Mr. Jake Barber, of Bega, and owned by Mrs. Barber, his mother, overturned on the Tathra Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales has informed the Imlay Shire Council the that it proposes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In 1951 bush (ire damage in New South Wales was estimated by the Bush Fire Committee o be £6[?] million. But this statement does not include the "unrepresented cheques" which are to come in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The President of the Mumbulla Shire Council (Mr. A. J. Sims) announced to-day that in conjunction with the New South Wales Bush Fire Committees, a Regional Conference of Councils and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Recently the secretary of the Better Farming League forwarded a cheque to the Bega Bush Fire Relief Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. H. E. Messer, Chairman of the New South Wales Bushfire Committee, stated at the Regional Conference, in Bega, on Thursday, that he had come for information, to hear of problems, and to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The terrible bushfire tragedy of January 25 this year was remembered at Cobargo, on Sunday, August 17, when the Rev. David Orange, Rector of Christ Church, dedicated an altar book as a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →He added that if the amount required by Council exceeded the allocation, providing Council was to bear the full cost, the,…
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