Damage Caused by Bush Fires Government Grants £200,000 for Relief
The Commonwealth Government will make a grant of £200,000 to the States to meet the immediate effect of damage…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
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Bush Fires in Victoria and N. S. Wales Up to 1,000,000 Sheep Lost
With record food targets to meet this year, the Commonwealth Government is faced with miles of devastated…
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CANBERRA Wed—As a result of the bush tires In Victoria and New South Wales the Federal Government, with record nod…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Guest House Gutted by Fire
MELBOURNE Wed. — When fire destroyed Clovelly Guest House, at Sassafas, in the Dandenong Ranges, at 1 o’clock in the…
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A big bushfire was burning today between Cowra and Burrowa, and is now racing in the direction of Young…
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SYDNEY Wed—A big bush fire was burning to-day between Cowra and Burrowa, and is now raging in the direction of Young…
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The series of tragic bush fires in Victoria during the past few weeks, Involving the death of 20 people and serious Injury to many…
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CANBERRA Thursday — The Army had a scheme ready to meet a bushfire outbreak in New South Wales, said the Minister…
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SYDNEY Thurs. — The Chief Secretary, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, said that a scheme of compensation for bush fire fighters had…
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SYDNEY Friday—The NRMA declares that while the blame for starting bushfires has often been wrongly laid upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Still Raging in Victoria
MELBOURNE Friday.—More than 500 men are maintaining patrols in case a fire which is burning in the scrub country at…
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The Chief Secretary (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) states that a scheme of compensation for hush tire fighters had already been prepared and was now receiving…
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With grass many feet high all over the State and the bush fire risk approaching its zenith, it is not only nueessary that the precautions urged…
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SINGLETON Friday-A letter from the Forestry Office at Cessnock caused-much discussion at the Patrick Plains Shire Council…
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At Moyhu, in King Valley (Northeastern Victoria), a fire is burning in scrub country, but more than 500 men are maintaining patrols in case…
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The annual general meeting was held at the Mooby Bridge, Puen Buen, on Saturday 15th inst…
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SYDNEY Sat.—A further bush fire warning was issued to-day by the State meteorologis[?] Mr. Mares, However, he also…
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MELBOURNE Saturday—Mrs. Agnes Ethel Godfrey, 39, of Dunkeld, the twentieth victim of the bush fires, died in hospital…
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MELBOURNE Mon.—Thunderstorms, accompanied by heavy rain, over a large part of, the State late on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blaze in Woy Woy District Mountainside on Fire
The whole of the mountainside of Blackwall, in the Woy Woy district, was on fire last night. The fire, which is between Woy…
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