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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Fires & bushfires
239 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 11 of 12
When Mrs. Stan Penberthy, wife of the secretary of the Narromine Returned Soldiers, saw a fire in their crop on Saturday afternoon her first thought was to call the Diggers. She did so and within a very few minutes they started to arrive on the scene of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire broke out at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning at Bradley and Wightman’s timber yards, Coonabarabran…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Fires in December? With all this green stuff about after the recent rains! Rubbish!" How often have you heard that said? But he who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Fires in November? With all this green stuff about after the recent rains! Rubbish!" How often have you heard that said?…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"If I were a millionaire of unlimited millions, with a hobby for populating Australia, I would buy up the available land around all the most suitable interior centres, and then employ building companies, on a land grant basis, to build up those centres to four or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire broke out in the main shopping centre of Killmore, a township 43 miles from Melbourne, this morning, and destroyed a shop, solicitor's office,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire at Yenda, in the Griffith Irrigation Area, last night destroyed the Co-operative Society's building, together with large stocks of new season's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scrub fires which broke out yesterday in the outlying suburbs, mountains and coastal areas were still…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Fires in December? With all this green stuff about after the recent rains! Rubbish!” How often have you heard that said? But he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire at Mr. E. S. Lewis' "Spring Visle" property ony Tuesday destroyed a hay shed and some 200 tons of hay Mr. Lewis' well…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scrub fires, which broke out yesterday in outlying suburbs, the mountains and the coastal areas, were still burning last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The weather has warmed up with a vengeance during the past week on Tuesday the temperature reached 102 degress, and on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Those who remember Mr. N. K. McDiarmid, for many years manager of the Bank of N.S.W. at Dubbo, will be interested to learn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire has twice brought misfortune to Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Williams, of "Billabong," at Webb's Siding. About two years ago their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The whole of the works at Waterloo of the Australian Glass Manufacturing Co. Ltd., valued at millions of pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It was estimated yesterday that more than 30 houses were saved from the menace of the bush fires which raged in the Blue…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While fighting a fire on the Valley Road, three miles from Hazelbrook, last night, Vincent Sweeney, a volunteer fireman, was struck by a falling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) said last night that the extreme dryness or the weather throughout the whole State called for the exercise of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four haystacks and a shed containing farm implements and about 20 tons of chaff were destroyed by fire at Mr. E. Christian's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a meeting held recently at the residence of Mr. H. Wykes, a bush fire brigade was formed, under the same rules as the previous year…
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