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

Fires & bushfires, 1945

84 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 5

Bush Fire Causes

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 8 October 1945 · page 1

When a bush lire sweeps across the country, destroying crops, homos, timber and soil, kiling stock and perhaps human beings—…

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Bush Fire Prevention Campaign Opens Nov. 19th

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1945 · page 1

The official opening of the campaign for the prevention of bushfires will take place on November 19…

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Mildil Fire Brigade Meeting

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 October 1945 · page 4

Members of the Mildil Bush Fire Brigade are requested to attend a meeting to be held at the Mildil, Hall at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday next…

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Bush Fire Causes

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 October 1945 · page 6

When a bush fire sweeps across the country destroying grass, homes, timber and soil, killing stock and perhaps human beings—…

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Calleen Annual Meeting Calleen Bush Fire Brigade

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 October 1945 · page 5

The annual meeting of the above was held at Calleen on Monday, 1st October, and was very poorly attended. The balance sheet showed a credit of…

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Caragabal Bush Fire Brigade Again Operating Comforts Fund,ball--wirrinya Wins Gregory Cricket Cup. Personal News. Bush Fire Brigade

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 19 October 1945 · page 5

The annual meeting of the Caragabal Bush Fire Brigade was held in the local hall recently, when the following officers were appointed for the season…

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Bush Fires Danger this Season Brigades Active in Shire Council Orders Power Unit

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1945 · page 2

A number of matters relating to Bush Fire Brigades were dealt with at the meeting of the Jemalong Shire Council on Friday…

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Cowra Road. Fire Is Brigade Meeting

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1945 · page 3

The annual meeting of the above Bush Fire Brigade was held at "Springvale" recently. There was a good attendance of…

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False Fire Alarm Caused Injuries to Nine Persons Widen Engine and Team Collide (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1945 · page 1

Four firemen and five civilans were injured late yesterday when fire engine, racing to answer what proved to a false alarm, collided…

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The Creek and the Bushfire

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1945 · page 1

Watercourses are useful as firebreaks -- but not always. The Bush' Fire Advisory Committee reports that a small fire started in a paddock near…

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The Creek and the Bush Fire

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 1 November 1945 · page 4

Watercourses are useful as firebreaks—but not always. The Bush Fires Advisory Commitee reports that a small fire started in a paddock near…

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The Creek and the Bush Fire

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 5 November 1945 · page 4

Watercourses are useful as firebreaks--but not always. The Bush Fires Advisory Committee reports that a small fire started in a paddock near…

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Yesterday's Fire

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 6 November 1945 · page 1

A lot of commotion but little damage was done by a fire which broke out yesterday afternoon in a rear shed at the Egg Marketing Board's premises in…

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Burnt to Death When Truck Caught Fire (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 1

A message from Maitland stales:—When his utility truck caught fire Dear Greta yesterday, John Roy Swinton, aged 44, married, a fruiterer of…

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Burning Fatality Small Boy Trapped in Grass Fire

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 1

Late yesterday afternoon, between 4 and 5 o'clock, the seven-years-old son (Robin), of Mrs. Kennedy of Berkley. Street, Camp…

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"Red Terror" Menace Grave Dread of Bush Fires Shire Council Takes Action

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 1

The deadly menace of bush fires, throughout the State, was referred to in lengthy Departmental correspondence to Bland Shire…

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Council Can Now Hire or Fire

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 2

Shire Clerk E. E. Rannard, told Bland Shire Council, at its meeting at West Wyalong, that the Deputy-General of Manpower, had advised of…

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Fighting in Java Real Atmosphere of War Seven Big Fires in Sourabaya (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 1

A message from Batavia states:—"There is no question of this being merely a brush—there is a definite atmosphere of war," said a British,…

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Bush Fire Precautions Fitting of Spark Arresters

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 15 November 1945 · page 4

The Chief Secretary, Mr Baddeley, directs the attention of country people to the Regulation under the Careless Use of Fire…

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Paying with Fire in the East

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 15 November 1945 · page 2

Whatever may be the merits of the claim for national independence on the part of some of the peoples bordering on the…

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