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Fires & bushfires, 1932

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Forest Fires in Victoria Aeroplanes "Spot" Outbreaks Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 8

Serious forest dress, which are raging in several parts of Victoria, have resumed in thousands of acres being destroyed. The Royal Australian All…

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Government Assistance Will Be Available Fires Not As Bad As 1921 SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 8

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn). discussing the bush fires in [?] western areas. said that they were [?] like a city fire, where a…

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Bush Fires. Prompt Methods Prove Effective

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 3

Two outbreaks of fire occupied in the district during last week, but prompt and effective measures taken by the local brigades quelled the…

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Bush Fires Hopeless Position in West Rain Only Hope Comparison With 1921 Fire SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

There is still no relief from the bush ares in the West, and it is reared that unless rain fans very [?] the whore of the western…

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Menaced by Fire "Red Steer" Runs Riot Blaze Outside the Area

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 3

Consistent with street corner gos­sip, wild rumours were floating about last, week, when fires were raging outside the area, that six men had…

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Fire Outbreak at Junee Grass Destroyed JUNEE

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

At 8 o'olock yesterday afternoon a fire started on the Junee common, a mile on the eastern side of the town. The fire alarm was sounded, and a…

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Fire at Buenos Au[?]es. Vancouver, Jan. 4

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

Approximately 400,000 bushels of Argentine grain held for export in the [?] of the Louis [?] Company at Buenos Aires, was almost…

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Police Fire on Crowd One Man Killed Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

One man was killed when the Benares police were forced to fire on a crowd attempting to hold a meeting…

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Assistance for Fire Fighters Volunters From City Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

Efforts are bing made to despatch a contingent of city men to the west to assist the fire fighters, many of whom are on the point of exhaustion…

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Fire at Tullamore Four Buildings Destroyed Family Escapes in Night Attire Tullamore

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1
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Four buildings were destroyed by a fire at Tullamore, 59 miles west of Parkes. which swept through them with great rapidity early this…

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Fire at Y.p.s. Packing Shed Discovered in Time to Save Big Conflagration

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

A Ore broke out amongst some boxes at the Y.P.S. packing shed at dinner time yesterday, but was discovered by employees of the P.D.S…

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The Bushfires

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

The Gundagai "Independent," reporting on the bushfires says the damage is too hard to estimate; but tis certain the Gundagai district will…

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Local and General BUSHFIRES

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

At midnight on Wednesday the alarm was raised that a grass fire had started on Mr. P. R. Scott's "Carinya," Brawin After strenuous…

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Bushfires Hopeless Position in West Rain Only Hope SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

THERE Is still no relief from the bushfIres in the west, and it is feared that, unless rain falls very shortly, the whole of the western…

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Bush Fire Menace

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 9

With the telegrams of bush fires coming to hand from all quarters of the State, a little hysteria develops in city newspaper offices. One…

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Night Telephone in Bush Fire Areas

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 21

The Postal Department has undertaken to maintain day and night communication in all areas where bush fires are likely…

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Bush Fires Cobar District Renewal of Outbreak Resistance Futile Rations Preferred to Assistance Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 4

A message from Cobar states that a number of large bush fires which yesterday appeared to be dying down made a fresh start this morning, with…

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Junee Common Fire

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 4

The file which started on the Junee common on Thursday afternoon was confined to the common, two-thirds of the grass on which was destroyed, in…

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Series of Fires in Albuby and District Albury

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 4

A fire broke out yesterday on the property of the Murray River Water Commission a[?] the Hume Weir, between the football oval and the…

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