'Planes Cannot Catch Fire with the R.a.f.'s New "Crash Switch"
A new device for aircraft, designed to prevent or put out fire in any emergency during flight or on the ground, has been adopted by the…
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Gundagai Shire Monthly Council Meeting Re-classification of Fire District Letter from Underwriters' Association
The monthly meeting of the Gundagai Shire Council was held on Tuesday last, those present being Councillors K. P. Carberry (president) J…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fire Relief Lord Mayor's Fund Totals £21,841 SYDNEY
Presiding at a general meeting of the Lord Mayor's Bush Fire Relief Fund committee to-day, the Lord Mayor (Sir Norman Nock) said that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gundagai Shire Monthly Meeting of Council Proposed Increase in Fire Rate
At the recent meeting of the Gundagai Shire Council, H. W. Robertson, Tarrabandra, brought under the notice of the council the bad state of the…
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Twenty holdings were represented at a meeting held at Camp Plain on Monday last, when a Bush Fire Brigade was formed…
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The Board of Fre Commisioners of New South Wales wrote to last week’s meeting of the Shire Council stating that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barellan Anticipating Hush Fires
Further arrangements for the fighting of anticipated bush fires during the coming summer in the Barellan police district were made at Sandy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Protection in Industrial Area Conference Suggestions for Improvements
WITH all our industrial undertakings jammed together in the one area is no doubt good town planning if it wasn't for the enormous risk of having all the works wiped out together by a disastrous fire. This serious position was brought under the notice of the captain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Sydney Fire Seven Narrow Escapes Man Hangs From Window Sydney
Seven persons were saved from being burned to death by brigadesmen when a fire broke out in the Crystal Palace Arcade, Sydney, to-night With…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thrilling Story Race Under Fire From U Boat Australian Tells of British Courage LONDON
A thrilling story of how the British oil tanker, Cheyenne, braved shellfire in a vain endeavo, to escape from a U-boat is told by an Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo Murder Trial Human Bones in Fire Charge Against 61-Year-Old Man DUBBO
Evidence of the finding of two joints of human verterbrae in the ashes of an old fire in Macks' Reserve was given in the Dubbo Supreme Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire-brigades. Junee Reefs Action
The phenomenal growth of herbage to be seen on all sides leaves these districts faced with the danger of serious grass fires during…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire Damage Claims Against Woman Station Owner Melbourne
A sequel to a bush fire on "Black Friday" (January 13,1939) was a claim by eight graziers at Penshurst, in the Supreme Court to-day, for £8787 from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Iron Starts Fire
A bucket of water sufficed to extinguish a small blaze at the house of Mr. D. Keogh, of 32 Fox-street, last night. The fire started when an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vigorous Policy For Fire Protection
Lockhart Bush Fire Brigade is to be congratulated upon adopting a vigorous policy to afford the district protection from bush fires. They…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cliff Fall Man Rescued by Fire Brigade Sydney
The military garrison at North Head to-day temporarily suspended its training activities to go to the rescue of Arthur Taylor, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire-proof 'Planes R.a.f.'s New Device LONDON, by Air Mail
A new device for aircraft, designed to prevent or put out fire in any emergency either during flight or on the ground, has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mountain Country Beyond Murrumbidgee Now a Meadow Result of Bushfires and Rain Breeding Ground for Rabbits
BUSHFIRES EARLIER IN THE YEAR CLEANED OUT THE MOUNTAIN COUNTRY AND BOUNTIFUL RAINS HAVE NOW TRANSFORMED IT INTO A MEADOW, SAID DIR. W. C. ARCHER, CHAIRMAN OF THE YASS P.P. BOARD, AT LAST…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lockhart Bush Fire Brigade Lockhart
The Lockhart Bush Fire Brigade is pursuing a vigorous policy this year in view of the prolific growth in the district, and has obtained the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fodder and Fires Sydney
When told by Mr. Kilpatrick (U.A.P., Wagga) that the State had been fortunate in the fodder growth this year, the Minister for Works and Local…
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