New Outbreak of Bush Fires
SYDNEY, Tues: High temperatures and an electrical storm started new bush fires in NSW today…
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Ban on Lighting Fires
The NSW Chief Secretary’s department yesterday advised Hume Shire Clerk (Mr A. H. Nowland) that lighting fires in the open air…
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Eight, bush fire brigades in the Holbrook shire will seek the use of the present Wantigong telephone exchange during the…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: A grassfire on the coarse at Flemington today threatened to delay the Melbourne Cup…
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Throughout the night and during the whole of the week-end volunteer firemen guard Albury from fire. One officer, working more than 50 hours a…
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BRISBANE, Wed.: Nine months of bush fires and droughts have cost Queensland at least £10 million…
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LONDON, Wed.: Firmen pumped so much water into the blazing 5680-ton British cargo ship Tahsinia at the port of Bristol…
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ATLANTIC CITY (N.J.), Wed.: A spectacular fire whipped by an ocean wind yesterday destroyed 10 stores on the Atlantic City…
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Bush fire dancer would be high this season, district agronomist, Mr. G. C. Bartlett, said yesterday in his monthly…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Disastrous bush fires broke out again today in valuable grazing land and timber forest throughout NSW…
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[?]aptains of Bush Fire Brigades [?] meet next week in Denili[?] This was decided at yesterdayâs…
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VERA CRUZ (Mexico), Thurs: Waterfront installations in Vera Cruz, the chief Mexican seaport, were destroyed yesterday by a…
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Damage estimated at £6000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the Alphington (Melbourne) Bowling Club pavilion…
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A chimney caught alight at the district hospital on Wednesday morning about 11 oâclock and the fire brigade was…
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Fire destroyed about a square mile of grass near Sunnyside, about nine miles from Hay on the Old Gunbar Road, yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Nearly 750,000 acres of grazing land and forest have been destroyed by fire in north-western N.S.W. during the past 48 hours…
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THE Hay Pastures Protection Board will tell the Officer in charge of Police at Hay, that it believes that permits to shoot kangaroos should not be issued before next March as the fire hazard in the district is too…
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BRISBANE, Fri.: One man lost his life and three others suffered burns while fighting bushfires in central western Queensland…
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SYDNEY, Fri: Three houses [?]ere destroyed in a fire at [?]rench’s Forest today. Fires in other Sydney suburbs…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Three new bush fires broke out tonight in the Baradine State Forest. The fires are burning through thousands of acres of valuable Cyprus…
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