Plucky youth prevents big fire
ADELAIDE, Sun.: Damage by, fire, at the Wiles Manufacturing Company’s extensive electroplating works at Mile End last night…
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Begin bush fire prevention methods now
Farmers should give consideration now to the safeguarding of crops, pasture and fences against summer bush fires, advised…
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The safeguarding of crops, pastures and fences against bushfires should be Considered now, says the Department of Agriculture's…
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CANBERRA Tues.: The Menzies-Fadden Cabinet came under fire three counts during a joint meeting of the Government parties today. Led by a core of N.S.W. Liberals, a group of more than a dozers members pressed…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.; Alleged “standover” men fired six shots around a group of men standing in a lane behind a…
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Wodonga police yesterday extinguished a fire at the home of Mr Bill Stojanal in Phillip st. They said last night that a call…
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A Yugoslav who is believed to have attempted to burn his home down on Thursday afternoon was found hanged in a cell at Wodonga police station yesterday morning…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: Apprentice D. Paterson will ride crack Victorian colt Pure Fire in the J. J. Listen Stakes at Flemington on Saturday…
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ATHENS, Thurs: Greek frontier guards fired a machine gun at two Bulgarian soldiers last night…
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Rural fire brigades in Towong Shire will appoint delegates to meet Forests Commission representative with a definite plan for burning fire breaks within the forest, a meeting of the local advisory committee of the Country…
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Oxley Shire Council has taken early action in preparation against fires next summer. It has requested ratepayers to plough fire breaks,…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Damage estimated at more than £50,000 was caused by fire which destroyed a plastic button making…
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Suggestions for the strategic formation of fire breaks and the non-appointment of a fire control officer were made at a conference…
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VANCOUVER. Fri: Great forest fires- yesterday raced on across the woodlands of British Columbia, leaving millions of…
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Hume Shire Council has requested landholders within the shire to provide fire-breaks on the northern and western boundaries…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: A 31-year carpenter was sent to gaol for 12 months by Judge Book in General Sessions today for…
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SYDNEY, Fri.; A man who set fire to the bed of his “lazy brother” was convicted of a malicious damage charge in…
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AUCKLAND (NZ) , sun.: A man and a woman perished in a blazing two-story wooden house at Greylynn, Auckland…
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WAGGA, Sun.: Two Sydney detectives arrived in Wagga today to assist in investigations into the cause of a fire which caused damage estimated at £3000 to G. T. Kendall's shoe store…
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Hume Shire Council will hold a bush fire fighting, equipment demonstration at Jindera on Monday, September 1, at 2 p.m. All…
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