Late District News Springhurst Bush Fire Brigade
Annual meeting of the Springhurst Bush Fire Brigade elected the following officers: Captain, Mr A. J. Wighton; lieutenants…
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Fire in Nursing Home
COLESVILLE (Maryland), Wed.: Three elderly women were burned to death yesterday and more than a score were injured when flames…
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WASHINGTON, Fri.: The Forest Service reported yesterday that a gigantic fire was sweeping through the huge…
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MELBOURNE, Sun: Raw rubber valued at more than £100,000 was destroyed when fire swept through a storeroom owned by…
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SYDNEY, Son.: Fire this afternoon destroyed a flour mill at Boggabri, causing damage estimated at £150,000…
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SAO LUIZ (Brazil) Tues.: A fierce fire yesterday destroyed 60 working-class homes in the G[?]bal district of this…
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Albury Fire Brigade was called to Racecourse lane at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon to extinguish a Cadillac car which burst into…
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BUFORD (Georgia), Thurs.: Six dangerous convicts who escaped from the Georgia Prison for Incorrigibles were captured…
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"La Paz (Bolivia) is the highest capital in the world and, incidentally, the only one which has no fire brigade, since no fire can…
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On Wednesday at 1.15 p.m. the fire siren brought the usual following of boys on bicycles, cars and pedestrians in the…
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CANBERRA, Thurs.: Civil Aviation Department should consider insisting on the installation on all planes of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Barnawartha conference discusses bush fires Rail chiefs urged to improve fire fighting equipment
Victorian Railway Commissioners should improve the standard of fire fighting equipment, and have a more adequate water supply on railway property. This was emphasised on Saturday at the Rural Firebrigades…
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GRAFTON, Mon.: Forestry Department officials said tonight that the fires which had swept over large areas of the north coastal…
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CANBERRA, Mon.: The Federal Opposition will launch a full-scale attack on the Government over its financial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Is It Murder Or Suicide ? Indian’s death in shack fire at Henty (By Our Special Reporter.)
Detectives investigating the death at Henty on Saturday night of an aged Indian hawker, PUTURB SINGH, are not prepared to say that he was murdered. “Until such time as we find a motive for murder we are not prepared to say the old man was done to death,” Det. Sgt. Aldridge,…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: The Auditor-General (Mr Campbell) has reported to the Government that five files relating to railway contracts…
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BRISBANE, Tues.: A huge poll of smoke from bushfires covers vast areas of Queensland and fires raging over thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Beechworth Fire Station Keeper’s Record
In his 31-year term as station keeper of Beechworth Fire Brigade, Mr Bert Beard, who recently retired as the town’s water…
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CANBERRA, Thurs: The post office would operate as usual in assisting bush fire brigades to combat fires during the coming…
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Windouran Shire Council will purchase for the Morago Bush Fire Brigade a £214 200 gallon tank, pressure pump…
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