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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1943

75 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 4

Water Pressure Failed At Critical Stage of Fire

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Bland Shire Council, the Board of Fire Commissioners, wrote to Council, stating that in the Chief Officers report of the…

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£60 for Fire Fighter Unit Purchased at Temora

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 22 November 1943 · page 1

The Narraburra Shire Council has accepted the lender of Mr L. G. Schulz in the sum of £60 for the supply of a power operated fire lighting unit to…

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Bush Fires Prevention Campaign to Open ON 1st. DECEMBER

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 25 November 1943 · page 2

The Health Inspector (Mr. H. B. Player), Informed the last meeting of Bland Shire Council that the Bush Fires Prevention campaign would open…

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Oslo University Reported Fire Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 29 November 1943 · page 3

A message from London states that the University of Oslo (Norway) with reported to have been set on fire. The university has been used for…

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Fire in School Started by Children

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 2 December 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A gang of school children broke into Leichhardt School and after causing widespread damage, lit a fire in one classroom and…

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Bush Fires Care for Prevention Essential

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 6 December 1943 · page 3

As many parts of the State, particularly the Coastal areas, Tablelands and Slopes, are at present enjoying a bounteous…

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Opening of Bush Fire Campaign

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 1
Also in Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder, The West Wyalong Advocate

The annual campaign to prevent bushfires, organised each year by the Bush Fires Advisory Committee, was officially opened on 1st December…

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Grass Fire

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 16 December 1943 · page 1

TLe West Wyalong Fire B[?]gade was called to a fire at about 1 p.m. to day. when grass was blazing on a vacant allotment next to Andrew's…

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Bush Fire Brigades Equpment Required

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 2

Mr. H. B. Player, Health Inspector, and officer in charge of Bush Fire Brigades in the Bland Shire reported as follows to the last meeting of the…

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Four Deaths Bush Fires in Victoria Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 1

Three pereons, trapped beside a water cart on the roadside, were burned to death in bush fires in Victoria yesterday…

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Four Lives Lost Fourtenn in Hospital Big Bush Fire in Vic. (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 1

A message from Melbourne states: As the result of a disastrous bush fire which swept a big area of country in the Wangaratta district yesterday,…

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Fires in Country Hay and Crop Destroyed

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 2

A fire occurred in a large haystack on Mr. C. A. Clemson's "Ellesmere" property, near Barmedman, on Tuesday. About 200 tons of hay (which…

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Bush Fires In Eugowra District

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 24 December 1943 · page 4

During the past week two bushfires have broken out in the Eugowra district, The first was on Wednesday of last…

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