Desperate Gunmen Fire Point Blank at Two Men Melbourne
Firing point blank at two men without warning at Scotvale on Saturday night, two gunmen got away with…
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Fires & bushfires, 1937
124 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 5 of 7
District to Be Formed Into Zones to Combat Grasshoppers Decision of Public Meeting Departmental Scheme To Be Applied Co-operation of Bush Sought Fire Brigades
Enthusiasm marked the meeting of the Central Western District Grasshopper Destruction League, which was held in the Mechanics’ Hall, Coonabarabran, on Tuesday afternoon, to discuss methods of controlling the grasshopper invasions next…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Outbreak No Serious Damage
A fire broke out at the home of Mr and Mrs. J. Judd last week, but luckily the family were at home and no serious damage was done, as it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Weather Data Fire Causes Disorganisation Sydney
The receipt of daily Weather data will be interrupted for some time owing to the telephone communication at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hut Destroyed by Fire Traveller's Fortunate Escape
With hair, face and hands singed and blackened by flames, Alfred Arthur Pemberton, a traveller, calmly walked into the…
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At about 11 a.m. on August 25th. a bush fire started at Clifton Downs. In no time there were 18 willing men on the scene with fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Binnaway Fire Cottage Gutted. Occupants Escape in Night Attire
A fire occurred at Binnaway on Monday morning last at 1.30 a.m. when the home of Mr. Bourke, of the loco branch, was completely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Separate Fires Timely Discoveries Sydney
During the week-end six separate fires were discovered in a laundry of a house at Newtown in which 11 persons were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Mr. Les Williams
About 2-a.m. on Friday, Mr. Les Williams, an employee of Mr. A. R. Byrnes, at his "Back Avoca" stud, was awakened to find the house…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires
The Forestry Commissioner will have distributed throughout the State posters warning against bush fires. At a conference to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gwabegar Fire at Lord’s Sawmill
On Friday morning last the residents of Gwabegar were aroused a their slumbers by the incessant clanging of the hotel dinner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Fire. London
Twelve Irish potato diggers were believed to be all burned to death when a fire destroyed a wooden but on a farm near Glasgow, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at School Children March Out Sydney
When a fire broke out in the weatherboard section of West Manly Public School to-day, 100 children marched out into the playground…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Country Blaze Half a Town Destroyed
A disastrous fire at Fifield, 20 miles from Trundle, destroyed half one side of the main street on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cockatoo Dockyard Damage by Fire . . . . Sydney
The damage by five at the Cockatoo Dockyard is now estimated at £50,000. The managing director, Mr. N. Frazer, said that he did not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Here and There Bush Fires
A keener realisation of the danger of bush fires was needed in New South Wales, Mr. C. W. Moore, of the Rangers’ League, stated…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Alarm
Excitement was caused in Gilgandra at about 4.15 on Tuesday afternoon, when heavy snroke clouds were noticed issuing from above the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Control Organisation of Brigades
Every summer heavy losses are sustained in rural districts as a result of fire. Some of this loss is inevitable, but a large…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire at Binnaway Bulk Store Gutted. Shopping Block Threatened
A disastrous fire occurred at Binnaway on Friday morning last when the bulk store of Mr. W. Guy’s establishment caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Blayney Fire. Sydney
At Bathurst Vicent James O'Neill was acquitted and discharged on a charge of having set fire to the Blayney Theatre on September 11…
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