Grass Fire in Wodonga Place
Albury Fire Brigade, used knapsack sprays to extinguish a small grass fire in the City Council yards in Wodonga Place last night…
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Bush Fires Under Control
SYDNEY, Wed.: All bush-fires throughout NSW were under control tonight, according to Forestry Commission…
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A meeting of the members of above Brigade was held in the Memorial Rooms on Saturday, 24th November…
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A heat wave hit Riverina yesterday, hottest day since last summer, when the thermometer soared beyond the century mark in some…
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Four transports (top) owned by H. R. Hanel, Lavington, loaded with 20,000 steel fencing posts consigned to a Gilgandra property owner who lost 90 miles of fencing in the recent disastrous bush fires. It is the first of several large orders placed…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: The driver and 11 passengers escaped with all their luggage when a Pioneer tourist bus caught fire…
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MELBOURNE, Wed. : The Railways Commissioners were fully aware of the prolific growth of grass and weeds throughout…
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William Anthony [?], 42-year-old laborers, of Union lane, Lavington, was temporarily of unsound mind when he poured petrol on the floor of the sleep-out at his home and then threw a lighted match into it…
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At the meeting of the Murrumbidgee Shire Council it was reported that requests had been received for Council's co-operation…
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In another month the South-Eastern Riverina district would be in a highly inflammable and dangerous state, and the bush fire risk will be high, the District Agronomist (Mr. G. C. Bartlett) said this week in his…
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During the bush fire danger period in the Wagga district, which was proclaimed on Friday until Much 30, 1952, district police will watch for offenders throwing away cigarettes and cigar butts and lighted matches,…
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ARMIDALE, Thurs.; Archibald Gray, of Jeogia, was today fined £30 in Armidale court on a charge of having…
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Henty Town Fire Brigade was called to an outbreak to a vacant lot in Lyne Street, opposite Livingstone's Garage,…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Swedish freighter, Mirabooka, was slightly damaged tonight when fire broke out among pulp paper…
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On Wednesday morning at about 10 o' clock a fire occurred in a paddock of this year's stubble on Mr. A. Dlckins…
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Damage was done to the menâs quarters at the Weari Sawmill, Hardinge Street, by a fire which commenced in the…
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Fire danger to the township has been considerably reduced through the efforts of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. Members have been…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Harold Frederick Hilton Peters, 47. builders’ laborer, Moira st, Sutherland, was acquitted at Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →98 degrees gave Albury a “scorcher” : big district fire
First “scorcher” of the present summer hit Albury yesterday. At 3 p.m. the temperature reached 98.3 degrees at Albury post office, the highest since early in the year. Changeable west and south winds throughout the…
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