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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1918

27 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 2 of 2

Mittagong Fire Brigade

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 October 1918 · page 2

Our readers wrill remember reading in our c[?]umns how the [?] bell range at 13.30 other [?]night and only one fireman heard it. Well, the other night the residents were…

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Chinamen Burnt Out

Robertson Advocate · Friday 13 December 1918 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

The huts, states etc., at the Chinamen's gardens at Bowral were completely wiped out by ire at an early hour on Wednesday evening. The Chinamen were working in the…

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Chinsmen Burnt Out

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 December 1918 · page 4

The buts, stables, &c, at the Chinsmen's gardens at Bowral were completely wiped out by fire at an early hour on Wednesday evening…

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Bush Fires

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 24 December 1918 · page 3
Also in Robertson Advocate

Fires broke out around Mittagong on Sunday last, and the ringing of the alarm at about a quarter past one drew people's attention to clouds of smoke rolling up from the…

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Bush Fire

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 25 December 1918 · page 2

Fires broke but around Mittagong on Sunday last, and the ringing of the alarm at about a quarter past one drew people's attention to…

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