Grass Fire Burnt Fence
A grass fire in a paddock off Duma[?] Street, Glen Innes, yesterday afternoon destroyed about…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
234 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 12
Wetter Water : New Bushfire Weapon
What makes water wetter? That's not a frivolous question, and neither is the answer. Wetter water may become one of the most pot[?] weapons yet devi[?]ed for fighting bushfires. Victorian Forestry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ruling on Tingha Bush Fire Brigade Challenged
Guyra Shire Council will challenge a ruling by the Secretary of the Bush Fire Committee in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Fires -- 100 Feet Apart
Two fires have broken out within 100 feet of 'each other in Glen Innes this week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Secretary's Ruling Attacked by Shire Councillor
"I do not like to see the whole Shire involved in something from which it is receiving no benefit," Cr. E. C. Ferris told a meeting of Guyra Shire Council on Tuesday. Cr. Ferris was speaking during a discussion on the Tingha Bush…
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Fire destroyed a dwelling house and contents at Kentucky on Thursday last, at about 1.45 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Lorry Catches Fire
Two men escaped unhurt when, the motor lorry, in which they were travelling caught fire near Diehard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parked Car Damaged by Fire
A motor car parked outside the inverell picture theatre Was slightly damaged by fire on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Board Members in Inverell
The Board of Fire Comissioners of New South Wales visited Inverell on Wednesday. They met local firemen at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sawmiller Fined For Lighting Fire
The manager of a sawmill at Jeogla was fined at Armidale Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for a breach of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grass Fire at Kentucky
On Thursday last a grass fire started at Kentucky on land adjoining the railway. Uralla police and a number…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£5 Fine for Unattended Fire
An 18 year old Tingha youth, who left a camp fire unattended to go to a creek to fill his billy with water,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dancers "Hot Foot" it Out of Fire Danger
BRISBANE, [?]day: In the vernacular of jitterbugs "the joint was really jumping and there…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coroner Told of Fire That Caused Death of Two Young Boys
GLEN INNES: Loose ignition wires shortcircuiting against a tin of petrol could have caused a fire in which, two infant boys Were fatally burned in a car on January 11…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coroner Told of Fire That Caused Death of Two Young Boys
GLEN INNES: Loose ignition wires short-circuiting against a tin of petrol could have caused a fire in which two infant boys were fatally burned in a on January 11…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flower Show Opens in a Blaze of Colour High Standard of Entries
Glenn Innes Horticultural Society's Annual Autumn Flower Show Opened in blaze of colour at the Town Hail this afternoon. Despite the drought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Compton in Form; Button Under Fire
BRIDGETOWN: English batting ace of other seasons, Denis Compton, struck form…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Tingha Does Not Want a Fire Brigade for Nothing"
The secretary of the Tingha Bush Fire Brigade, Mr. E. J. Walker, has denied statements made by councillors of the Guyrs Shire that Tingha wanted a fire brigade without paying for it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bush Fire Tax Should Be a Sectional Tax Question Discussed by Guyra Shire Council
Guyra Shire Council will submit to the next conference of the Shires' Association a motion providing for an amendment to the Bush Fires Act to authorise local government bodies to impose a…
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The Bush Fire Committee in Sydney has upheld a ruling that equipment issued to the…
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