Damage to Land From Bush Fires Effect On Its Productivity
It is quite a mistake to think that the damage sustained by land as the result of a bush fire is only superficial, points out a pamphlet issued by…
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Grandstand, Accommodating 10,00 People, Destroyed Blaze At Flemington Before Last Race MELBOURNE
Fanned by a brisk south-easterly wind, a fire which broke in the Hilt grandstand shortly before the last race at Flemington to-day burned for over three hours and reduced the grandstand to a shell…
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A fire, believed to have been started by a spark from a tractor, swept the property of Mr Edwin Bolt at Bull Plain, about 16 miles…
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HONG KONG, Sun.: An explosion aboard a motor launch set fire to and gutted another motor launch and two barges loaded with…
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Albury City Fire Brigade was called out three times yesterday to small grass fires, the first of the year. One call during the morning…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Early developments are expected in the police investigations into the fire which [?]ed West Wyalong Golf Club…
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Over the Xmas and New Year holiday period there were several bushfires in District .On Tuesday, December 30, a spark from a tractor…
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A grass fire at 930 p.m. on Sunday, December 28 caused some excitement and attracted a large crowd to the scene of the outbreak—at the fear of…
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Children are suspected of having lit a fire in an allotment in Dean st next to the Terminus Hotel yesterday morning. The allotment is…
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WEST WYALONG. Tuesday: Lloyd Fleming appeared in West Wyalong police court to-day charged with that deemed to…
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Faulty electrical wiring is thought to have been responsible for a fire in the switchboard [?] the Beehive Chambers about 10.15…
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Hold Up City Hotel; Steal Taxi SYDNEY, Wed. Morning.— Three armed bandits bound and gagged the driver of a hire car,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Damage to Land From Bush Fires Effect on its Productivity
It is quite a mistake to think that the damage sustained by land as the result of a bush fire is only superficial, points out a pamphlet…
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A small room in the Beehive Chambers, which was damaged by fire on Tuesday night, had a dismal appearance by daylight…
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PERTH. Thurs.—In a desperate efforts to save the State Government’s Holyoke timber mill in a bush fire to-day, mill employes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Valley of Fire” Film to be Shot in ’Australia
HOLLYWOOD, Thurs.—The film producer, Harry Sherman, said today that he would shoot a picture “The Valley of Fire” in Australia…
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A small fire broke out in grass along the canal off Jones street yesterday afternoon. It gave the fire brigade little trouble…
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MELBOURNE. Sun. — A disastrous grass fire on a property three miles east of Nagambie to-day destroyed 60 acres of oats, 500 acres…
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Fire Chief at Albury (Mr H. Pettit) is suspicious that the large number of small grass fires which have occurred in and around the…
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On Thursday evening of last week residents were roused by the sound of the fire siren after 10 o'clock the cause being a fire in a passage at the…
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