Woodpile Fire Serious Damage Averted
Shortly after lunch-time on Friday the fire brigade received a call to Mr. W. Kennedy's home on the Parkes road to extinguish a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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Fires
Two outbreaks of fire occurred on Friday last at about 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. The first was a minor blaze at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grass Fire Atlakecowal
A grass fire on Mr. Allan Buttenshaw's property at Lake Cowal last Saturday destroyed 50 acres of grassland and some…
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A sequel to a grass fire which broke out near the arm of the 'creek in Currawong Street, Young, during the aerly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Need for Bushfire Legislation
Lack of promised legislation for the control of bushfires, the righting of which is a response bility of local governing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ardlethan to Have Fire Brigade
At a meeting convened at Ardlethan it was decided to form a volunteer fire brigade In Ardlethan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Home Destroyed by Fire on Saturday Night Public Subscription List Opened
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths, of Evelyn Street, was completely destroyed by fire on Saturday night…
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Bland Shire Conucil (West Wyalong has approved of an application from the Banmed man Volunteer Fire Brigade…
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On numerous occasions he had put out fires on Railway property, between West Wyalong and Barmedman,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bv Wire (This Afternoon). H. G. Wells' Story of Martian Invasion Broadcast as Dinkum Mob Fire Radio Station When They Were Told It Was Just Fiction Quito, Ecuador
At least six people wore killed and 15 injured on Saturday night, when an angry mob set fire to the "EI Commercia" newspaper building, lousing the radio station which had broadcast a fantastic description of a Martian invasion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Canberra Scene Calwell Under Fire
The first session of this vital election year began dramatically last Wednesday afternoon when a sudden, but spirited, attack was launched on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire "Attack" is OK
The Board of Fire Commissioners has advised Mr. D. P. McGee, Secretary of the Wyalong and District Hospital that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£50,000 Damage in Griffith Rice Mill Fire
A fire which burned the Griffith rice mill to the ground on Saturday afternoon destroyed machinery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Canberra Scene Foreign Policy Under Fire
Crowded public, diplomatic and Press galleries listened in rapt attention to a lucidly forceful exposition of foreign affairs, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Foreign Policy Under Fire; All Party Parliamentary C'tee Urged
Crowded public, diplomatic and Press galleries listened in rapt attention to a lucidly forceful exposition of foreign affairs, with particular emphasis on Australia's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Victims' Fund
Mr. Millard reports that the following additions to the Fire Victims' Fund have been received:--Already acknowledged, £4911-…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Cowra Flour Mill
About £50,000 worth of bagged wheat slacked around the Cowra Flour Mill, nearly went up in flames on Monday night when a fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blazing Mouse Was Potential Fire Bug
A mouse could have set a house alight in Mulyan last week. The owner of the house had just lit a fire under the copper, using scraps…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disastrous Fire
The premises owned by Mrs. Saville near the Grenfell. Intermediate High School, and occupied by Mr. Mervyn Rumble and…
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The fund for Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths closed on Tuesday with a total of £74. Donations received this week totalled £717-…
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