Duke’s Fire Prevention Message Canberra
Warning against lighting fires where fire danger existed and an appeal for co-operation of everyone, whether city or country residents,…
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Bush Fires
Reported outbreaks of bush fires late summer totalled 223, and the total estimated damage from these fires was £71,000. In 1944-45 the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ancient Church Damaged by Fire LONDON
The ancient university church of St Mary the Virgin, one of the architectural features of Oxford, was damaged by a fire that broke out in the chancel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Nuns and Priest Die in Convent Fire Rome, Monday
Four [?] one priest, and four others including children were crushed to death in a panic which occurred after a fire in a Naples girls’ convent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Camp and Picnic Fires Illegal
The N.R.M.A. advises motor campers and picnickers’ that the restrictions on fighting fires in the open, reimposed because of the…
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Although wide areas have been saturated by recent rains hot weather can in a few weeks change the whole appearance of the country and…
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Reported outbreaks of bush fires last summer totalled 223 and the total estimated damage from these fires was £71,000. In…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mathoura's Power Pump for Fighting Bush Fires
The Mathoura Council recently had a power driven water pump delivered to be used for the fighting of bush fires. This…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires
Reported outbreaks of bush fires last summer totalled 223 and the total estimated damage from these fires was £71,000. In 1944-45 the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Culcairn Bush Fire Brigade Seeks New Truck
On the motion of Messrs Hensel and Hazell the annual meeting of the Culcairn Bush Fire Brigade decided to ask the Shire Council to make…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Conargo Shire Council Deputation Received From Bush Fire Brigade
At yesterday’s meeting of the Conargo Shire Council a deputation was received from the Blighty Bush Fire Brigade, Messrs. D. Henderson and F. Gibbings, to discuss equipment. The delegates met the Council after the luncheon adjournment…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coreen Shire Council Savernake School Children Attend Meeting Decision on School Bus Service Financing of Bush Fire Equipment Presentation to Miss F. PERRY
At the monthly meeting of the Coreen Shire Council on Monday last there was quite a long discussion on the establishing of bus service to bring country school children to Corowa Intermediate High School. Three routes were mentioned, to service districts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bush Fire Menace
No valid reason exists for objection to legislation foreshadowed by the N.S.W. Chief Secretary providing for more drastic penalties for persons whose carelessness causes bushfires. No deterrent is too harsh for an act which is nothing less than a crime of the first magnitude…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steward Apprehended Following Fires on Ship SYDNEY
There were five separate fires on the four decks of the liner Asturias, 22,000 tons, in Sydney harbor today, The crew apprehended a steward and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in State Forest MELBOURNE
Fifty acres of State forest were damaged by fire which broke out near Mt. Franklin, outside Daylesford, this afternoon. Fanned by a 30-mile per- hour…
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A grass lire on vacant ground on Western Hal was just spreading into the property of Mr H. Jacobs when Albury firemen quelled the flames shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fire Soon Extinguished
A grass fire broke out on Smith’s property about S miles from Yarrawonga at 7.30 a.m. yesterday morning. The Yarrawonga Rural Bush…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lightning Causes Theatre Fire Sydney
A projectionist was winding a spool of film in the projection box at the Plaza Theatre, Waterloo, last night, when a lightning flash set fire to 800…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys’ Deaths in Factory Fire SYDNEY
The Coroner (Mr Stewart) today conducted an inquest into the deaths of two boys who died in a fire in an old factory at Newtown a month ago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →814 Jap Houses Destroyed in Fire Tokio
Fanned by a wind, a fire destroyed 814 houses in the town of Goshagawara, northern Honshu. A similar blaze in November, 1945, destroyed 800…
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