HOWLONG Bush Fire Brigade
The attendance, at the annual meeting of Howlong Bush Fire Brigade was very disappointing. Office-bearers: President. Mr. G…
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Bush Fire officials in Culcairn Shire
Following is a list of officers of bush fire brigades operating in the Culcairn Shire:— Culcairn N.E.. Mr. G. C. Mackie…
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Parts of the Waradgery Shire likely to become bush fire risks this summer were reported to a Shire meeting on Thursday…
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Border district- graziers who lost stock in last summer’s bushfires ore incensed at losing a large part of their insurance compensation in taxation…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Firefighters bottled for five hours today to extinguish a bush fire which threatened two cottages at Holbrook. It was the first serious bush fire on the Blue…
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MELBOURNE; Tues.: Five racehorses had to be taken from a yard to safety today when a fire broke out in a house at Mr. Jack…
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The Jerilderie Shire Council is organising a conference of all representatives of Bush Fire Brigades within the Shire to be held in the…
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CANBERRA, Wed. : National service trainees could not take over the job of fighting bush fires in country districts, the Minister…
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PERTH, Wed.: In a matter of minutes a fire engulfed the city bulk store of Harris, Scarfe Sandovers Ltd., in Wellington…
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At the annual meeting of the Goolgowi Bush Fire Brigade held last Saturday, Deputy Captain A. C. Cahill and secretary L. J…
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Much interest was displayed by Lockhart and district Bush Fire Brigades in the conference convened by Lockhart Shire…
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BROKEN HILL, Thurs.: Mr Peter Stevenson, manager of Durham Downs station, is believed to have been burnt to death in a fire…
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BROKEN HILL, Fri.: The charred remains of Peter Stevenson, 49, manager of Durham Downs Station, were found…
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KATOOMBA, Sun.: Fire fighters were busy on the Blue Mountains today dealing with outbreaks in Megalong Valley…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: An elderly woman was burned to death, two men almost suffociated, and another man injured in a fire which broke out in a house in Summerville rd., Yarraville,…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Bushfire danger periods would operate over a substantial part of NSW from October 1, the Chief Secretary (Mr Kelly) said today. The danger period in Riverina will…
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Fire turned the single storey Brocklesby Hotel into a raging holocaust within 15 minutes last night. Guests scrambled for their…
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The white hot ruins of the burnt out laundry at the rear of the Brocklesby Hotel. The fire started here before…
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SOUTH CHARLESTON (W. Virginia), Mon.: A mother and four of her five children died yesterday in a fire that destroyed their…
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THE importance of prevention rather than control of bush fires was the keynote of a special conference of Shire and Municipal Councils, fire brigade officers and the bush fire committee held at Narrandera on…
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