£8000 Fire in Bakery
Fire caused damage estimated at £8000 in a bakery at Tawonga early yesterday. The bakery is owned by Mr. J. Sharp, of Bright…
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Bandiana Fire Was Under Control
Bandiana Military Camp appeared to he a mass of fire yesterday afternoon to passing motorists, but the great cloud…
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Albury City Council will have to contribute £644 this year, compared with £365 last year for the upkeep and running of the local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Start made last night on Chiltern fire-break
First section of the six-mile fire-break around Chiltern was burnt last night—along Racecourse road, south of the town…
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Last January a representative of the Wahgunyah Fire Brigade made an announcement at a progress Association meeting to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys Town Cottage Difficulty in Finding Hydrants
DIFFICULTY in locating the fire hydrants covered with earth, hampered the Hay Fire Brigade yesterday, when they turned out to fight a fire which totally destroyed a galvanised cottage, in Fredericka Street,…
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Albury Fire Brigade was called to five fires in the city yesterday. Little damage was caused…
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ADELAIDE, Fri.: A bushfire fire near Jamestown today, killed 300 sheep and destroyed 2000 acres of grazing land…
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Liquid Fire and Cymbidium should each win at Rosehill this afternoon. From of candidates is as follows :— 2-Y-O HANDICAP…
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BEUNOS (Aires), Mon.: Thirteen persons were reported killed and nine injured last night in a new crop of fires in the parched fields…
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Police are Investigating a fire an Monument Bill last night. The fire, started about 3 p.m. and lasted for 25 minutes…
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ADELAIDE, Mon.: Fire in a grass paddock at Gilles Plains, near Adelaide, destroyed nine prefabricated boxed houses, worth…
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MELBOURNE. Mon,: Fire severely damaged a sedan car being used to take the President of the Senate (Senator Mattner)…
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FIRE (Penn), Mon.: Believed to have been caused by the explosion of an oil stove, a fire early yesterday morning destroyed the…
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Jindera Fire Brigade, under Captain F. A. Emery, and the Glenellen unit, under Captain R. Salzke, held practice…
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Precautions in Albury and many ports of the border district were taken yesterday against the outbreak of major bush fires. Most towns ore on the alert for potential dangers and district brigades hove been “burning off” for several days…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: Scores of grass fires and two bush fires broke out in Victoria today as the State experienced its first taste…
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Several acres of grass were burnt near Horseshoe Lagoon on the Howlong Road, early yesterday afternoon. Albury Fire…
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WANGARATTA. Wed.: Wangaratta district had its first fires for the season late yesterday afternoon and night. Brigades were…
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Albury Fire Brigade was called to a fire on top of a telephone pole in Volt lane at approximately 9.45 last night. It was situated just…
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