Bush Fire Menace Precaution Our Most Potent Weapon
Every summer bush fire in this State take heavy toll of pastures, fencing and farm crops and plant, while serious stock losses are not…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
177 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 9 of 9
Hotel Fire at Queanbeyan
QUEANBEYAN, Friday.—Fire swept through the top portion of the Royal Hotel, Queanbeyan, at 9 a.m. to-day, causing damage estimated at…
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Every summer bush fires in this State take heavy toil of pastures, fencing and farm crops and plant, while serious stock losses are not…
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It is now officially estimated that 432 persons lost their lives and nearly 200 were injured in a fire which broke out in the…
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At the last meeting of the Cobbora Shire Council the clerk reported that the following bush fire brigades had been registered:—…
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The Public Safety Committee has announced that the number of persons dead in the cabaret fire has reached 490…
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When he was arrested on Tuesday night on a theft, charge, a 17-years-sold old youth allegedly admitted to the police that he had started 16 fires…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bizerta Bombed Blaze Visible for a Hundred Miles (Australian Associated Press) LONDON
British bombers made a fire-raising raid on the docks at Bizerta on Saturday. A correspondent says that the blaze could be seen for a hundred miles. With the Germans stubbornly resisting in the Tunis-Bizerta triangle, the Allied Air Force is…
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When the back of the lorry he was driving caught fire on Friday last, Mr. W. Lynch, carrier, of Canowindra, was equal to the occasion. With…
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Those who contend that some gas producer gadgets are not too clever —and there are many in this district who hold that view—will be…
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A conference of Bush Fire Brigades, called by the Cobbora and Macquarie Shire Councils, was held at Wellington, when…
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ST. JOHNS, Newfo[?] Sunday. In addition to 130 who have been admitted to hospital, 94 bodies have been recovered, and…
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We remember, we remember in the dark dim ages past, We had a conflagration which we hope will be our last;…
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On Monday last an unoccupied dwelling on the. property known as “Wembley Park,” on the Old Dubbo Road, belonging to Mr. H…
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At the annual Christmas party tendered by the Captain and members of the Dubbo Fire Brigade, on Saturday night, the…
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At a Magisterial inquiry, at the Dubbo Court House to-day into the cause of the destruction of an unoccupied dwelling near…
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What might have been a big conflagration was averted by the promptitude of the Dubbo Fire Brigade in responding to a call at 4 a.m. on…
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