Air Patrols Guard Forests Against Fire
A strang "air fores" which sometimes numbers 100 planes, most of them owned privately and hired on short…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Dairy and Bails Gutted by Fire
Damage estimated at £ 1,500 was caused when a fire destroyed dairy bails and milking machinery on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire Position Is Still Serious
Mr. A. S. Richards, District Forester, Taree, in charge of the Forestry District which extends from Kendall to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prevent Forest Fires!
Bush Fire Danger Period Proclaimed. For further information Ring the Forestry Office, Taree 56. Forestry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Timber Losses In Northern Fires - -
Forestry officials say that bushfires in N.S.W. in the last 10 days have destroyed at least 250 million super feet of timber…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Open Verdict at Inquiry Into Fire
An open verdict was returned by the District Coroner. Mr. T. Williams, when he inquired on Thursday into the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfires Damaged District Pastures
"Bushfires have caused serious damage lo pastures on some upriver farms."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Warning
The District Forester, Mr. M. F. P. Dufficy, this morning issued a strong warning against the lighting of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge Fires
Saturday's hot winds and high temperatures brought a sharp rise in fire danger throughout the district, and on Sunday two Forestry fire engines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trapper Jailed: Started Fires
A man who started four fires on Saturday to smoke out ferrets from a rabbit burrow near Seaham was sentenced to three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge in Danger From Fire
We understand the Killawarra Bridge last week, had a very close call, and but for the action of Mr. G. W. Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Prosecutions
The Clerk. (Mr. L. H. Donald) told the Macleay Shire Council meeting on Monday that he understood a few…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fine Of £35 Imposed On Man For Lighting Fire— "Bush Fire's Act Must Be Enforced," Says S.M.
A fine of £35 for having lit a fire during the Bush Fire Danger Period was imposed on Robert Stanley Meuncth, of Craven,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lit Fires Without Permit
For lighting fires in the open without permits, three farmers were each fined £5 with 10- costs at the Macksville Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Conditions: Most Dangerous Since 1939
Fire Prevent ion Week opens throughout New South Wales next Monday. The week will be dedicated to prevention of all classes of fire but, in particular, bush fires. LOCAL Councils throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No More Fires To Be Lit In The Open This Month "Ought to Be a Total Prohibition," Says President
"I think there ought to be a total prohibition against lighting fires while this weather lasts," declared the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire at Carrai
A bush fire has been burning at Carrai for the past few days but the extent of it is not known. A westerly wind is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Old Bar Bush Fire Brigade
Old Bar Bush Fire Brigade has been formed. At a well attended meeting recently, it was decided, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LANSDOWNE Burnt Out Saw Mills Rebuilding Well Underway
The rebuilding of sawmills recently destroyed by fire at Langley Vale and Lansdowne is reported to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires Declining
Bush fires in the Lansdowne area have fallen off a good deal over the past few days…
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