Bush Fires and Councils
It is at this period of the year that dwellers in both the town and rural district should consider taking steps to mitigate the dangers and…
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CORRESPONDENCE (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents) Bush Fire Menace (To the Editor "Daily Advertiser")
Sir,—I regret that an unfortunate error was made in my letter of November 5, in regard to the months in which burning off was prohibited in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ganmain Fire. Coroner’s Inquiry Completed. Origin of Fire Accidental
Mr. D. F. Parker, P.M., on Tuesday last, at the Ganmain Police Court, completed the inquiry into the origin of the fire which on September 16th…
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It has always been an offence under his Act for any person to leave, either temporarily or otherwise, any fire which he has lighted or used in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Colliery Explosion Followed by Fire 150 Miners Entombed Millfield (Ohio)
One miner is known to have been killed and 150 miners are [?]ed as the result of a terrific explosion this afternoon in the No. 6 time for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COUNCIL v. Fire Board Battle for Lower Insurance Premiums Fire Commissioners State They Have Nothing to Do with Underwriters Cr. Adams Sticks to His Guns, That Fire Commissioners' Representatives Led Council to Believe Premiums Would Be Reduced
Willimbong Shire for two years has been laboring under a delusion—that the reduction in fire risks should automatically follow the establishment of an up-to-date brigade. The disillusionment came on Wednesday, following an interview with the…
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The Wallendbeen Bush Fire Brigade has already met, in preparation for the outbreaks which it is feared will be sure to occur this summer;…
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The excellence of the present season, and the result is large growth of grass have emphasised the danger of bush fires this…
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A fire broke but on Saturday night in a shied at the rear of Mr. S. Hearue's residence in Bourke street, Warren Sub. The shed, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bush Fire Act
Experience has shown the country councils that the Bush Fire Act of 1930 is deficient in some most important particulars. It is, of course…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Culcairn Shire Unemployment Relief Bush Fire Control Hands Off Walbundrie Show Ground
A meeting of the Culeair[?] Shire Council was held on Monday. There were present Councillors J. H. Balfour (president), E. M. Thomas, J. Mathews,…
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A mysterious fire occurred at Henty on Saturday night when the house of Mr. J. Bourke (a well known drover) was burnt to the ground. Mr. Bourke…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pullitop and Clifton Bush-fire Brigade
The danger of bush fires is a very grave one in almost any part of New South Wales in the summer time. In the agricultural areas its ravages are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Brigades Dudauman Meeting
A crowded meeting, of the Dudauman district Bush Fire Brigade was held at "Truro" homestead on Wednesday night. Mr…
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The high warm winds of the past few days have had a remarkably dry-ing effect on the luxuriant growth of grasses everywhere discernible, this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Damage in Sydney Suburbs Houses in Danger Sydney
Fanned by a high wind, which at times reached a velocity of over 50 miles an hour, bush fires did considerable damage in a number of outlying…
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A fire broke out yesterday morning in a weatherboard house in Sydney-Road, Newmarket, Albury, and the house and its contents were totally…
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Spontaneous combustion is believed to have been responsible for a fire which broke out in the coal bunkers on the Colonial Sugar Refinery wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Menace of Bush Fires
Owing to the particularly mild winter experienced this year the undergrowth in the forest country is unusually luxuriant and when it dries off,…
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