Water Shortage and Fire Menace on Tweed
Ninety-nine per cent, of tanks in Tweed country centres are dry and the people are drinking water from creeks and springs as a result of the drought, now nearly 120 days old…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Homes Menaced by Heath Fire at B. Bay
BYRON BAY, Wednesday.—Fanned by a south-easterly breeze heath fires spread rapidly over an area of 1000 acres from Tallow Beach to…
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Farmers and other volunteers fought, to put out two fires which broke tout in the Tweed district this week. One was at Carool and the other at Chillingham…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Thursday. —With fires burning fiercely on the mountain behind Mullumbimby Creek, residents in that area have…
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Two calls were received by Lismore Fire Brigade yesterday to attend to rubbish and grass fires. The first was amongst some…
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Lismore firemen direct a hose on an outbreak amongst rubbish at the rear of Lardner's joinery works in Union Street, yesterday. The fire was extinguished before damage was caused…
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Murwillimbah Fire Brigade was called to Condong yesterday afternoon when a grass fire menaced the home of Mr. Cecil…
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An extensive fire which broke out in the peat swamp at the rear of Cudgen Plantation. on Friday did considerable damage…
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At the monthly meeting of [?]unglebung branch of the P.P.U., Mr. R. Leeson presiding, it was resolved to form a local…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: In an effort to blow a large safe at Rydalmere Town Hall early this morning thieves set fire…
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Fire-fighters were busily engaged on Friday and Saturday in the Upper Currumbin Creek area, near the border of Tomewin, in…
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AMSTERDAM, Monday: Former enemy munition dumps out-side the city are on fire. Explosions went on throughout the…
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The scrub on Robb's swamp at the rear of Cudgen was afire again yesterday following an outbreak last last week. The scrub was…
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Serious scrub fires which threatened the Doon Donn-Commissioner's Creek area last week emphasize the need for…
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CORAKI, Tuesday.— In the past week there have been numerous outbreaks of fire in grassland in the Coraki district. In each case, so far,…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday: The Weather Bureau issued a warning that temporary warmer conditions, associated with…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Thursday.—A grass and brush fire started at Byrrill Creek this afternoon and to-night it was reported to be…
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A grass and brush fire started at Byrrill Creek yesterday afternoon and last night was reported to…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Damage is estimated at thousands of [?]ds resulting from a fire which destroyed a large amount of R.A.A.F…
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Two grass fires occurred within the municipality of Lismore yesterday, the first in the morning at Junction Street between…
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