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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1949

6 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Bush Fire Danger

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 4

On the [?] of the Bush Fires [?] have been [?]…

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Brown Lucerne Hay Greater Fire Risk, but Palatable to Stock

The Southern Mail · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 3

Brown lucerne hay is often made accidentally, but sometimes by design, points out the Division of Plant Industry of the Department of…

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Bushfire Brigade Radio Sets Tested

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 5

Tests were carried out recently by members of the radio transmission and reception section of Bowral Bush Fire Brigade with the two…

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Fire at Bowral Brigade Does Good Work

The Southern Mail · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 2

While the occupants of a house at Bowral were in the front roams of she residence on Sunday night, they were unaware that a small building…

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Bundanoon Blaze Three Children Saved

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 3

I Time children were saved from being burned to death at Bundanoon on Monday night, through the prompt action of Mr. Garth McGill, owner…

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Bush Fire Brigade Bowral Holds Annual Meeting

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 6

The annual meeting of Bowral Bush Fire Brigade was held on Thursday night of last week, there being some interesting [?]…

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