Bush Fire
It seemed somewhat ironical, with all the controversy regarding the control and financing of the Bush Fire Brigade, that the first outbreak of the season should occur on the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Bush Fire Brigade Shire Council Not in Position to Render Much Assistance
In his report to last meeting of Tallaganda Shire Council, the Clerk, Mr. M. J. Noonan, said that during an interview with an officer of the Local…
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About 8 a.m. to-day the Fire Brigade received a call to a blaze in an outbuilding at the rear of Miss Hunt’s premises in McQuoid Street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“The Trees Belong To You ” Safeguard State Forests From Fire
“As a supplement to its own extensive fire-prevention and fire-control precautions, the Forestry Commission is making a request for special…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cease Fire Proposals Made for Korea Lake Success, Friday (A.A.P.)
The cease fire group proposed an immediate cease fire in Korea with, safeguards against it being used by either side for a new offensive, also…
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At a meeting of the Graziers’ Association held on Thursday last discussion centred on the Bush Fire danger…
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Three fires which started almost simultaneously on Saturday morning were caused by lightning. The first alarm was given at McGrath Bros…
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In his report last week to the meeting of the Municipal Council, Mr. R. L. Howlett, Health Inspector, stated:— “Attention has been given to a…
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Bush fires are raging on a 50-mile-wide front near Charlesville and Wyandra in south-west Queensland. In the area yesterday business premises…
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The United States would press vigourously in the United Nations to have Communist China branded as an aggressor in Korea, President…
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At its last meeting under President Tom Darmody, the Monaro Shire Council criticised the delay of several months of the Local Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The White Elephant That Historic (And Costly) Engine for Fire Brigade Purposes
A letter from the Board of Fire Commissioners read at last meeting of Tallaganda Shire Council dragged a grisly old skeleton out of the…
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The twelve nation Arab-Asian bloc last night amended its resolution on the Far Eastern questions to provide that a Korean cease-fire agreement…
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On Friday afternoon a grass fire broke out in the hills beyond “Irishtown,” East Queanbeyan. Through a misunderstanding of the…
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About 3 o’clock on Wednesday morning a fire occurred in the saw mills Of Messrs. Danoghoe & Hopkins of McQucid Street Queanbeyan. It…
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About 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning a fire occurred in the sawmills of Messrs. Donoghoe and Hopkins of McQuold Street, Queanbeyan. It is…
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At Harbord on Friday fire destroyed a building of eight flatettes housing nine people. Notes and thousands of silver…
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On Tuesday morning fire destroyed workshops at the Burrinjuck Dam construction project, causing damage estimated at over £50,000…
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An unoccupied house in Burketown, Araluen, the property of Mr. Roy Keating, was completely destroyed by fire on the morning of 19th February…
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At the meeting last week of Queanbeyan Municipal Council the Mayor (Ald. W. B. Freebody) said he had investigated a statement made at a…
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