Shire Criticises Bush Fire Committee
The Bush Fire Committee of the Local Government Department Was criticised by the Talbragar Shire Council yesterday…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
149 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 7 of 8
Bush Fire Danger Period Announced
A bush fire danger period had been proclaimed in the Shire of Talbragar this week by the State Bush Fire Committee said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Caused by Govt. Bodies Says M.L.A. SYDNEY
Bush fires had been caused by Government departments and semi-Government bodies burning fire breaks without permission from local councils, declared Mr. B. S. L. Deane, Liberal M.L.A. for Hawkesbury, in the Legislative Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Levy Proposal Again Under Fire 'Budget-Balancing' Scheme To Be Contested In Court SYDNEY, Wednesday
Renewed attacks on the Federal Government's 20 per cent, wool tax plan have followed a Ministerial admission that the scheme was introduced to balance the budget…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Patrols to Watch for Bush-fires Melbourne
The R.A.A.F. will again, provide air reconnaissance and patrol assistance to the Victorian State Forests Commission this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Amaroo Councillors Will Ask for Education of New Australians on Bush Fire Danger
AMAROO Shire Council will ask the N.S.W. Bush Fire Committee to arrange for the education of New Australians about the danger of bush fires in Australia, particularly in view of the prolific growth of weeds and pasture this year. At last Monday's meeting at…
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The annual meeting of the Gulargambone and District Fire Brigade was held in the Red Cross Rooms, when the…
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When the flood waters threatened Mr J. Morris' house in Miller Street, the family assisted in placing as many…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plans To Beat Bush Fire Mehace Plans for the prevention of bosh fires were made at a meeting of the Peak Hill Bush Fire Brigade
All officers were re-elected. They are Mr. O. M. Leary, captain; Mr. L. T. Merriman, vice-captain; Mr. W. Kitto, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scores Injured in Big Sydney Blaze Sydney
A spectacular blaze with columns of smoke thousands of feet high and explosions which racked the district for two miles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfires on Big Area Big Stock Losses Are Feared SYDNEY
Bushfires are raging along a 110-mile front on the N.S.W.-South Australian border, and huge losses of stock are feared…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Korean "Cease Fire" Plan Supported by Britain & U.S. Two Eleventh Hour Peace Moves By United Nations WASHINGTON
A move for an immediate "cease fire" in the Korean war has been supported by Britain and the United States. The United Nations has also set up a committee…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Hazard Proclaimed Over Area
As from 8th December, the whole of the Wingadee Shire area has been proclaim ed as a fire hazard area, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Start of Fire Brigade's Busy Period
The Wellington Fire Brigade was called twice in an hour on Tuesday morning last to deal with minor grass fires in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fire-bomb Set Adrift Gundagai "Maniac" Blamed GUNDAGAI
An air-borne fire-bomb has been found on a Gundagai property betwen Reno and Nangus. District graziers believe that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dramatic Moves by U.S. to Meet Crisis in Korea Plans For Immediate "Cease Fire" Blocked By Reds Veto New York
Dramatic moves have been made or are planned by the United States to meet the crisis which has developed on the war in Korea. They include:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Captains
The following list of bush fire brigade captains and their deputies with telephone numbers, may be kept for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Russians May Prevent a "Cease-fire" New York
The United Nations Genera Assembly, at Flushing Meadow by 52 votes to five yesterday, approved a proposal by 13 Aral…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Now We Have a Bush Fire Bomb!
An expertly constructed fire bomb, which district graziers believe was constructed for the purpose of starting a bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fire Danger Restrictions On Stubble Burning
With parts of the Timbrebongie Shire area described as "a vast tinderbox a spark," councillors on Thursday discussed the advisability of allowing the burning off of stubbie, with the permission of the bush fire brigade…
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