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South Coast · Fires & bushfires
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Mr. F. C. Tregurtha, County Council Engineer, in a review of the year’s work by the Bega Valley County Council, states that Council has every reason to regard the year as one of considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This is the type of helmet the bright young British firemen are wearing. It is something new in the field as the helmet is made of glass, and has been designed by the Department of Scientific Bind Industrial Research and the jcint Fire Research Organisation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A serious piece of tomfoolery was committed by a group of young boys last Sunday morning when the siren was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The menacing fire hazards that lurk in the old weatherboard buildings behind the main business centre of Bega caused a scare, on Tuesday afternoon, when a fire broke out in the storeroom of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Donations for fire fighting equipment in Gerringong have followed the last local fire of 1952âwhen a house in Fern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. P. Wrathall, Bega Mun[?]clpal Council’s O[?]erseer, informed formed Council, in his report, read at Councll’s meeting, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. J. W. Seiffert, M.L.A., Member for Monaro, has received a favourable reply on whether the Bega District Bush Fire Relief…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a fire early on Tuesday morning, last week, at the rear of Mr. C. J. Yenâs store, Adaminaby, the racehorse Fox…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Bega taxi was rather extensively damaged on Thursday last, as the result of a collision at the intersection of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bega District Fire Relief Committee has issued a cash statement of the funds received for distribution among the victims of the fires of January an February of last year. the amount of money…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Bega Fire Brigade yesterday afternoon was called out to quell a fire which broke out in a haystack on Mr. C. P. Parbery’s farm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire which broke out at the Bega Valley County Council’s power house at about 6.20 p.m., on Wednesday, caused a break…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the early hours of Friday morning last, a fire destroyed the main portion of âBeach House,â one of the largest guest houses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five-year-old Fay Gwenneth Jennings, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jennings, of “Bald Hills,” Kameruka, was burned to death in a hayfilled bam on the property yesterday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Bega. Municipal Council, Ald. Hanson asked could something further be done about uncovering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An application to the minister for Public Works and Local Government (Mr. J. B. Renshaw) by Mumbulla Shire Council, for additional financial assistance toward the cost of bushfire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Among the correspondence received by the Shoalhaven Shire Council at its meeting yesterday was a letter from the Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →There was a general exodus from Cobargo last Sunday night, to a near by farm when it was though that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bega had no less than three outbreaks of fire on Wednesday, the Fire Brigade being called out on two occasions;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The State, Bush Fire Committee has recommended the further localising of total prohibitions on the lighting of fires in the open air. Last year, to meet public…
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