Pure Fire not for Adelaide
MELBOURNE, Tues: Crack two-year-old Pure Fire will not go to Adelaide for the Sires’ Produce Stakes to be run at Morphettville…
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Red planes fire on French airliner
BERLIN, Tues.: Two fighter aircraft fired on an Air-France airliner over the Soviet zone in Germany today, wounding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Women’s Close Call in House Fire
MELBOURNE, Tues.: Only a few seconds before a burning house completely collapsed in Jetty road, Rosebud, early this…
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Final distribution of the Albury Bush Fire Relief Fund was made yesterday at a special meeting of the committee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murray Valley Develoqment League... Bushfires Or Conservation?
THE Regional Conservation Committee has carried out its survey of Soil and Forest Conservation features in the Upper Murray catchment. Planned before the disastrous fires of late January, it nevertheless fell to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coroner Told of Big Toll of Bush Fires in E Ast Riverina Inquiry opened at Wagga
WAGGA, Mon.—Bush fires in the eastern half of the Riverina last January destroyed 300,000 acres of grazing, farm and bush land, 1500 miles of fencing, 50,000 sheep, and 1500 cattle, Sergeant D. Goode tolf the District Coroner, Mr A. N. Bott, at wagga today…
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NEW YORK, Mon.: Seventeen persons, 14 of them children, died in three fires in the United States yesterday…
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The Chiltern Urban Fire Brigade was freed from its debt to council yesterday. Construction of a new training…
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A fire broke out in the ceiling of the Townsend st. home occupied by Mr. E. Shand shortly after 4.15 p.m. yesterday. The fire brigade…
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CANBERRA, Tues.: A special committee of Government members will Investigate complaints that the States’ handling of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Probe Coroner Told of Huge Stock Losses
WAGGA, Thursday: Thirteen witnesses at the bush fire inquiry at the Wagga Court House to-day, told the District Coroner, Mr. A. N. Bott that they had lost a total of £265,449 in property damage and stock as a…
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WAGGA, Thurs.: Thirteen witnesses of the bush fire inquiry today told the District Coroner (Mr A. N. Bott) that they had lost a total of £265,449 in property damage and stock losses…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Promising sprinter Liquid Fire is expected to win the Flying Handicap at Canterbury on Saturday at his first start against open company…
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A fine of £12 with 12/ costs was imposed on Hilton Blanch in the Hay Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liquid Fire in attractive sprint : 3 furlongs in 37½
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Liquid Fire, early favorite for the Flying Handicap at Canterbury on Saturday, sprinted attractively at Victoria Park to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Bushfires or Conservation?
The Regional Conservation Committee has carried out its survey of Soil and Forest Conservation features in the Upper Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Holbrook Bush Fire Damage Estimated at £784,600 Coroner Is Told of Huge Losses by Graziers
WAGGA, Fri.: Damage estimated at £784,600 was earned by the bush fire which swept through the Holbrook district on January…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Improved sprinter, Liquid Fire—on trial tomorrow for the Doomben Ten Thousand—has been confidently supported to win…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Clash at fire inquiry
WAGGA, Fri.: A brief clash involving legal advisers and a witness yesterday highlighted the Bush Fire Inquiry here…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fadden under fire on imports statement
CANBERRA, Fri.: Manufacturers viewed the policy statement by the Treasurer (Sir Arthur Fadden) this…
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