Fire Destroys 25,000 Fruit Cases
SYDNEY, Fri. : Fire tonight destroyed 25.000 fruit cases at the Granville Box Company depot, Harbord street, Granville…
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Chiltern man’s death fall from fire truck accidental, says Coroner
There had been no neligence on the part of the driver and crew of a fire truck which killed a man at Chiltern on December 12, the Coroner (Mr. J. C. Bell) said yesterday. Mr. Bell was inquiring…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Fires, which police believe hove been deliberately started, broke out lost night in the South Granville Public School and Granville Baptist Church…
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A woman was burnt on the legs and suffered from shock in a fire at her home at North…
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Five large fires, one covering at least 2000 acres of heavily timbered mountain country, were raging in northern Victoria last night. Two, in the Upper Murray district, are on Mt. Cooper and Mt. Martin, only three miles apart…
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The walling of the fire siren at 11 oâclock on Sunday night brought hundreds of people into the streets…
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Whilst working in a paddock at Burramine, about five miles from Yarrawonga, on Saturday afternoon Mr. Ken Beattie saw…
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Local brigades, helped by workmen and nearby residents, effected a fine save of a storage building when fire destroyed three adjacent sheds in Wodonga Hospital grounds yesterday. Outbreak occurred in a…
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A special appear to Riverina landholders to be particularly vigilant about bushfire risk was made this week…
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Southern Riverina County Council has installed four fire hydrants on its mains for use by approved bush fire brigades in case of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →District News CORRYONG Thunderstorms, Fires and Rain
An electrical storm of unusual intensity sped across the Upper Murray district on Saturday afternoon, starting six fires. All…
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Today has been proclaimed an extreme bush fire danger period in Victoria and is expected to be the hottest of the prevailing heat wave, Melbourne Weather Bureau authorities stated…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: The worst bush fire this summer swept through eight square miles of timber and grass near…
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No suspicious circumstances attached to a bush and grass fire in Lamport street, on Monument Hill, yesterday. This was stated last night…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Many fires were blazing in Victoria this morning, but rain and the cool change had helped to bring…
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The S.R.C.C. has now installed four fire hydrants on its stains for use by approved bush fire brigades in case of fire…
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No. 24 Region fire control officer, Mr. C. H. Howe, Wodonga, gave fire-fighting advice to a group of firemen and farmers…
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A migrant was convicted in Wodonga Court yesterday on a charge of having lit a fire in the open at Barnawartha North on December 27. The migrant, Frantisek…
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HOBART, Thurs.: Tasmanian Plywood Mills Pty Ltd, factory at Somerset, on Tasmaniaâs northwest coast, was almost…
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During a recent trip to the Upper Murray I passed through three N.S.W. shires and then into Victoria and on up the…
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