£11 for Fire Victims (To The Editor)
Sir,—The appeal sponsored by the United Charities Fund tor help the unfortunate mother who, along with her two children, was left…
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37 Women And 9 Children Perish In Two Fires DEVENPORT (Iowa)
THE bodies of 37 women have been recovered from the ruins of a three-storey mental ward of the Mercy Hospital, which was burned down early yesterday. One…
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Soon after the alarm was given last Thursday morning that a fire had broken out on the Council for Industrial Research Farm, situated…
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Two fires broke out in the Deniliquin district last Friday, but were brought under control. The Melbourne "Argus" reports that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EARLY 1000 Acres of Grass Destroyed by Fire 200 Volunteers Fight Blaze in Moroco West Area
IX to seven hundred acres of grassland and some timber were swept by a bushfire last Thursday afternoon. No stock was lost but valuable summer feed was distroyed…
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NEW YORK, Mon: The deathroll of the fire which destroyed a mental hospital at Davenport, Iowa, on Saturday, has increased…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: The factory of Kemp Shoes Pty Ltd at Petersham was completly gutted by fire early this morning. Damage is estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain Eases Bushfire Danger in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Because light rain fell generally in Victoria during the weekend, the bushfire danger over the State has…
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BRISBANE, Mon.: Hundreds of miles of fencing and thousands of acres of grass have been destroyed by one of the biggest…
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Donations received yesterday by Miss Wilkinson c/- Blake’s Bookstore, towards the appeal sponsored by the United Charities…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nyora Bushfire Brigade
The Nyora Bush-fire Brigade held a meeting at Nyora on Monday evening, 2nd January, to discuss the Bush-fire Act of 1949, and to make an…
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Over 200 men from seven brigades fought the first big bush fire in the district yesterday afternoon when fire destroyed about 1000 acres of bush country on the Victorian side of the Murray, 1½ miles north of Bethanga bridge…
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Seventeen miles east of Deniliquin, 250 men fought a fire which destroyed 700 acres of grassland and a large area of timber…
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Anton Rejthar, a Czech, from the Bonegilla migrant centre, smiled happily, but wearily, at the “Mail” cameraman when he took a spell from fighting yesterday’s bush fire, near Bethanga. He is holding up a “beater”…
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The Nyora Bushfire Brigade held a meeting at Nyora on the evening of Monday 2nd inst, to discuss the Bushfire Act of 1949, and to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bethanga Bush-Fire Flares Up Again, But Now Under Control
IN scorching heat, about 200 fire-fighters from a large radius fought the Bethanga bush fire, which broke out. again at 1.30 p.m. yesterday…
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At about 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon last a fire occurred in a wheat stubble paddock on the property of Mr. F. W. Brindley at…
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Another fire hazard for the man on the land has been disclosed in the report that the Bethanga bush…
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A fire occurred on the property of Mr. John Thomas, Jnr., Urangeline, East, at about mid-day on Tuesday when two haystacks were reduced to…
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The Bush Fire Committee of the Chief Secretary’s Department advised Hume Shire Council yesterday that a bush fire…
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