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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires
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Never in the history of this district has there been in catastrophe to compare with the scenes of ruin and devastation which have darkened the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The two last days of the old you 1904 find the two first of 1909 will be long remembered aa the most diestrous period of. bush fires that the southern districts of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Residents of the Bowral district, and, we might say, the whole of the state, will have cause to store up in their memories for years to come a very vivid recollection of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The whole of the county on all sides of Mittagong has beeb ablaze, and on Friday the fire swept along the Mittagong Range and through the valley with great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further details continue to come to hand of the appalling results of the bush fires in this and other districts. In some instances the previous reports…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our last issue we briefly noticed most of the well authenticated cases of serious fires that had come under our notice. There were many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bowral Bushmen's Brigade, composed of ten fire fighters—Jas. Larkin sen., Larkin jun., W. Larkin. G. Ling, T. Baker. J. Sinclair, F. Teone, Wal. Shepherd, J. Goodfellow. J. Weeks, and G…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting was held at the council chambers on Thursday evening in response to a requisition to the mayor to call a meeting to consider the best…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fires around Bowral have now burnt themselves out. The prospect from, the town itself is not much altered but it only requires a trip round the outlaying parts to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As time goes on further details continue to be received regarding the scope of the recent bush fires in this district. In several instances it has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A very successful meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held at the Town Hall, Moss Vale, on Thursday evening last, the object being to consider what…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The annual gathering of the Bowral Volunteer Fire Brigade was held at the Fire Station on Monday night. The election of officers for the ensuing year took…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting was held at Stanley's Royal Hotel, Moss Vale, on Saturday afternoon last, to consider what action should be taken by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Public meeting, convened by the Mayor in response to a largely signed requisition, was held at the Bowral Town Hall on Tuesday night for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mayor (All. A Stephens) presided over a public meeting held in the Town Hall, Bowral, on Tuesday evening last, convened for the purpose of discussing the desirableness of opening a fund for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday night a public meeting convened by the mayor of Bowral was held in the Bowral Town Hall for the purpose of raising a local fund for the relief of sufferers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A bush fire started on Wednesday on the Austermere Estate, about a mile from Moss Vale, and gradually worked towards it. The majority of the residents living…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday last a bush fire started on the Austermere estate. The residents adjacent to the estate, seeing the threatened danger, burned a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two youths who ware camped in the showground at Delegate on Tuesday lighted a fire to boil a billy. The fire got away from them in the long grass,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mayor of Bowral, on behalf of the local committee of the fund for relieving distressed settlers, will be glad to hear by letter of any persons in the immediate…
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