Fire At Bookmakers’ Club MELBOURNE
Fire severely damaged the top floor, roof and contents of a three storey building occupied by the Victorian Bookmakers’ Club in Elizabeth street late…
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Fire in Pines at Bright
Three acres of State pine plantation near Bright were destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The fires started simultaneously in three places about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Authority Act Preparing For “Appointed Day” MELBOURNE
The Chief Secretary (Mr Hyland) announced today that the new Country Fire Authority had already covered considerable ground in preparations for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfire Danger Gas Producers Banned MELBOURNE
The Forests Commission tonight Issued on order banning the use of gasproducers in Victoria tomorrow outside a radius of five miles from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Formed Fire Party On Ship CANBERRA
Three able-seamen and the first mate of SS Katoomba voluntarily formed a fire party to extinguish a fire, following an explosion aboard the ship. They were J. S. Burns,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mall Burnt To Death in Bushfire SYDNEY
Trying In beat out the Homes of a bushfire this morning, Thomas Campbell M[?] 52. [?] was trapped and burned to death not 50 feet from the safety of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Bush Fire Risk High Readings Over State SYDNEY
Very high temperatures were recorded in south-eastern areas of the State today and the Divisional Meteorologist (Mr Mares) issued a warning of serious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Hillston Hotel
Tattersall’s Hotel, Hillston, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire. In the afternoon a room at the rear of the bar was discovered to be on fire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Illegal To Light Backyard Fires Must Be In Incinerator
Care and commonsense are the main factors in preventing bush fires. Is the contention of Mr Pettit, Albury Fire Brigade superintendent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Causes £20,000 Damage MELBOURNE
Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire early this morning at the Carlton furniture factory of Burge Bros. As the fire was still…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Items of News “Record” for Albury Fire Brigade
For a week now, Albury Fire Brigade has not received a call to a fire, and this is something of a record for this time of the year. Last year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lit Fire at Ryan’s Creek Drover With 26 Years’ Experience Fined
Robert Duncan Henderson, a drover from Berrigan (NSW), with 26 years’ experience, was at Thursday’s Benalla Court of Petty Sessions fined £4 on a charge or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Roy Fires Random Shot
On Thursday afternoon Mr Percy Smith [?] at the Commercial Club, was moving the club bowling green when he heard a report and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade’s Busy
Three fire alarms on Saturday kept the local brigade busy. A few minutes after 2 p.m. a call came from Noreuil Park where a quantity of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fierce Fire in Albury Rear Portion of Mate’s Old Store Completely Gutted Fighters’ Magnificent Effort
A large timber and galvanised iron building with a brick frontage which formed the rear portion of Mate's old store at the comer of Townsend and Hume, streets,. Albury, was completely destroyed by fire which broke out about noon yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Breaks Hume Shire President’s Views
Commenting yesterday of the establishment of fire breaks the President of the Hume Shire Council. Cr G. A. Bell, said:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lit a Fire. Drover with 26 Years’ Experience Fined
Robert Duncan Henderson, a drover from Berrigan, with 20 years’ experience, was at Benalla Court of Petty Sessions fined £4 on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swearing-in Of Duke Of Gloucester As Governor-General Brief, But Colorful, Ceremony In Almost Theatrical Atmosphere Blaze of Floodlights Accompanies Rituals Canberra
At a brief, but colorful, ceremony in the Senate chamber at Parliament House today, the Duke of Gloucester was sworn in as Governor-General of the Commonwealth. The setting was almost theatrical as the Duke took…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japs Caught by Patrol Intense Fire Wipes Out 28(From Gordon Holland, at Aitape)
Intense fire was hurled by Australian infantrymen at 29 unsuspecting Japs who were Caught by our gorging themselves on bananas’…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Bush Fire Risk [?] Need For Better Local Organisation
That the largely preventable toll of bush fires should have been allowed to supplement the losses occasioned by drought cannot be…
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