Bush Fire Prevention In Hume Council Decisions Yesterday
Bush fire prevention and [?] best means to [?] it were matters with which Home Shire councillors concerned themselves once again at their meeting…
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Bush Fire Brigade Annual Meeting Record Membership Reported
The annual meeting of the Yerong Creek Bush Fire Brigade was held on Saturday night, when the President and Captain (Mr. T. E. Gorman)…
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After advancing 44 air miles or approximately 60 track miles from Kalapit in the Markham Valley to Dumpu in the Ramu Valley, in just over six days,…
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At the annual meeting of the Bush Fire Brigade, there was a good attendance of district landholders. The brigade was called out last year to seven outbreaks of…
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A conference of Bush-fire[?] was held at Corowa on Friday [?] last, there being a good attendance including Crs. V. B…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kiev Set on Fire by the Germans Climax of Battle for City Red Army Advance In White Russia Continues LONDON, October 13
The battle for Kiev is now in full swing, and according to the British .United Press correspondent the once beautiful city and capital of the Ukraine is burning. It has been almost destroyed and is deserted…
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Damage in the vicinity of £1,000,000 was done in N.S.W. by the great fires which swept the country in 1938-39. Thanks to…
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The annual meeting of the Goombargana Bush Fire Brigade was he[?] at "Tower Hill," the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Shipard, on Saturday…
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Hundreds of planes and more than a thousand Allied airmen carried out the most devastating air attack to date in the Pacific, when they destroyed 177 Japanese planes and sank or destroyed 49 ships and 70 harbor craft at the big Japanese base at Rabaul, says today's communique…
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Before October 31 all owners or occupiers of land of more that 100 acres within the Shire of Hume are required to make firebreaks. when the…
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By advertisement in this issue the Victorian Railway Commissioners make an appeal to landholders to make fire-breaks on their properties…
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The “Advocate” Printing works were destroyed by a fire, which mysteriously broke out in the premises at approximately 1.30 p.m. on…
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It is with regret we report a serious fire at Berrigan on Saturday night last, which resulted in the Berrigan "Advocate" office being…
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Warehouses near Juliana and Wilhelmina wharves, in Macassar harbor, set afire by our heavy bombers during a raid on October 12…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Merri Meric Bush Fire Brigade Annual Meeting of Members
The annual meeting of the Merri Meric Bush Fire Brigade was held at the residence of Mr. J. C. Scholz on Tuesday, October 12. Mr. R. F…
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The premises of the Berrigan “Advocate” were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The whole of the stock and fitting were lost and the machinery…
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When the trial of Count Charles Alfred de Marigny on a charge of having murdered his millionaire father-in-law. Sir Harry Oakes,…
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Caught between the Japanese and Australian lines, Private T. G. Sing, of Petersham, crouched on the top of an almost impregnable knife edge ridge…
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An attack by Australian Beauforts on a three-funnel Japanese cruiser, which was torpedoed and set on fire before dawn on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wewak Heavily Attacked Jap Aircraft Carrier Set On Fire
Mitchells with an [?]of Tann[?] made a heavy attack on Wewak, the man Japanese base in New Guinea on Saturday…
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