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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires
13 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers
"Carbon," of the R.A.C.A., who is regarded as one of the leading motoring authorities in Australia, spiritedly defends the farmers against the sweeping assertion that…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →With the persistent dry spell in this district and most of the vegetation as a result having all the characteristics of tinder, the constant worry of the landholders at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE alleged "careless and criminal" use of fire by many farmers in the shire was the subject of a letter from a Grose Wold resident to the Colo Shire Council on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALD. J. J. McLeod presided at a public meeting held on 29/2/40 at Vineyard for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming a bush fire brigade at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diana Wynyard, a woman who frankly prefers the theatre, is again appearing on the celluloid screen. We hope that this second taste of screen life will cause her to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THAT action be taken to have gazetted regulations under the Careless Use of Fire Act prohibiting the lighting of fires in the open, within the shire area,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THAT the N.S.W. Board of Fire Commissioners co-operated with the Bush Fire Brigades "on paper only," and gave no real assistance to these necessary voluntary…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SOME keen organising since the previous meeting, in the matter of council's previous decision to gazette restrictive regulations for the shire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Under Secretary, Department of Works and Local Government, has written to Mr. R. B. Walker, M.L.A., as follows: —In reply ot your personal representations…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE submission of a comprehensive scheme for various electricity reticulation improvements, to obviate defects which have been the cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE considerable number of petitions, and letters from public bodies, forwarded from the Kurrajong-Grose Wold area in recent weeks, protesting against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The gazettal, on 7th instant, of the regulations for Colo Shire under the Careless Use of Fire Act, prohibiting the lighting of fires in the open between 6 a.m. and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"ONE of the most suspicious cases I have had to deal with for a considerable time," was the comment of the Hawkesbury District Coroner (Mr. H…
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