Bush Fires Organisation
The chairman of Bush Fires Advisory Board, Mr. H. E. Messer, will arrive in Deniliquin on Monday afternoon to discuss with the town and shire clerks…
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Prevention of Bush Fires Never So Important
Bush fires are for the most part the consequence of carelessness, and there is special need today for guarding against losses from this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Fires at Rand
On Two successive days this week fired broke out on the property of Mr A. Beer, butcher of Rand. On Tuesday afternoon at about 2.30, while a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Break Prosecutions
At the Corowa Court on Thursday. (yesterday) morning, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., the Coreen, Shire Council proceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grass Fire at Corowa
Early last evening a grass fire broke out on the property of Sir J. McMillan, Corowa. Corown Fire Brigade and several fire Fighters were quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only Leaves for Bush Fires
When a letter was read at Murray Shire Council meeting on Monday announcing the visit of the chairman of the Bushfires Committee to Mathours,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grass Fire
At about 9 o'clock on Sunday evening a gross fire occurred near Corowa, on the property of Mr. J. McMillan. The fire bell was sounded, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Army Releases Criticism Mr. Forde Under Fire Again MELBOURNE
Replying to the [?]est statement by the minister for the Army (Mr Forde) on the fall[?]re to relf[?] manpower for [?]ral employment the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fires in Albury
Albury Fire Brigade yesterday attended two grass fires—one in Tribune st early in the morning and the other in Nathan Avenue about 6…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oil on Fire in Sydney Harbor Sydney
Shipping and a wharf were menaced by blazing oil in Sydney harbor today,, but fire-fighters effected a smart save. A large quantity of oil…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prevention of Bush Fires Never So Important
Bush fires are for the most-part the consequence of carelessness, and there is special need to-day for [?]arding against losses from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Grass Fire [?]
For a second time within a [?] night residents were aroused sounding of the fire alarm. The [?] break proved to be another gras[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire—break Saves Property
The value of an effective fire-break was emphasised on Monday when a fire broke out on the property of Mr J. H. Fuge. four miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Grass Fire
About 15. to 20 acres of grassland were, burnt yesterday afternoon when a fire started on private property and spread to the land adjacent to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fires Raging In Berlin LONDON, Dec. 18
Big fires were still raging in Berlin yesterday after Thursday night's 1508-ton raid, and Berliners were wandering what had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →13 Bush Fires Extinguished Yesterday
Yesterday morning 13 bush fires, believed to have been started by a gas-producer, broke out between Table Top and Woomargama, About 30…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Soon Extinguished
The fire brigade yesterday received a call at 520 to attend a fire at the rear of the Big Store, when rubbish and boxes caught night. It only took…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wounded Russians Burned to Death Nazis Set Fire to Hospital Escaping Patients Shot London, Dec. 18.--AAP
Men of Adolph Hitler's Division shot or burned to death 800 wounded Red Army officers and men in an Army Hospital when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Army Storms Forward In Biggest Break-through Yet In Campaign Smash Germans on 50-Mile Front Nazi “Iron Wall” Shattered by Artillery Fire LONDON. December 20
Storming forward on a 50-mile front between Neval and Vitebsk, after the biggest single break-throngh of the Russian campaign, Soviet troops in their first big offensive of the winter, are now striking south-west from Neval with the main forces massed for a new drive westwards towards the Dvina river…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Men and Boy Burnt to Death Big Bush Fire in Wangaratta District
Three men and a boy aged about 15 or 16 were burned to death last evening in the worst bush fire ever known in the Beechworth-Wangaratta district. The boy and two of the men were found dead near a fire…
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