Fire Destroys Crops 200 Men Fight Flames Spark From Camp Starts Blaze
A fire which at times covered a front of five miles blazed for over four hours on Monday before 200 men succeeded in quelling it. The…
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Grass Fire at Junee
The Junee Fire Brigade received a call out to a grass fire on the property of Mr. P. Armstrong, about two miles from the town on the Harefleld-road…
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The Junee Fire Bridage received a call out to a grass fire on the property of Mr. P. Armstrong, about two miles from the town, on the Harefield road…
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A peculiar fire occured at the railway siding at Batlow, belonging to the Batlow Packing House and Cool Stored, last…
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The first bush fires of the season have occurred in the Tabbita and Benerembah districts, and several hundred acres of wheat and oat crops…
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An application by Mr. T. J. A. Fitzpatrick, of "Warre Warrel." between Junee and Temora, to the Illabo Shire Council for permis[?]son to bum fire…
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A peculiar fire occurred at the railway siding at Batlow, belonging to the Batlow Packing House and Cool Stores, when one of the cases being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Fires at Tabbita and Benerembah Volunteers' Splendid Work LEETON
The first bush fires of the season have occurred in the Tabbita and Benerembah districts, and several hundred acres of wheat and oat crops…
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BLAZING so fiercely that the owners and neighbours could not approach it, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Cartmel…
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Mr. Nock, M.H.R. for Riverina, has received the following from the Postmaster-General: "With reference to your recent representations on behalf…
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A bush fire occurred on the Albury Common yesterday. The flames swept a portion of the common, but were soon got under control…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£360,992—£408 Sydney — Gundagai the Cost of Fighting Fires
It is estimated that it will £408 to finance the Gundagai Fire Brigade, during 1940, the contribution by the Shire…
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Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cartmel, settlers, of Wamoon, and their four sons lost all their personal property with the exception of the clothes they were…
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Mr. and Mrs. [?]. E. Cartmel, settlers, of Wamoon, and their four eons lost all their personal property with the exception of the clothes they were…
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Ten minutes after the Gipsy Moth used by Wagga division of the Riverina Aero Club crashed on the Wagga airport, at 7 last evening, the machine…
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Ten minutes after the Gipsy Moth aeroplane, used by the Wagga division of the Riverina Aero Club, had crashed on the Wagga airport about…
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The Chief Secretary said last night that police patrol trucks would be provided with equipment to enable them to deal with bush fires…
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Reports from country districts recently received by the Bush Fires Advisory Committee and from Field Officers of the Rural Bank, indicate…
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When Mr. J. J. Beckwith, an employee of Mr. W. G. Strong, "Drumathol," Boree Creek, was driving a motor lorry through the stubble, the…
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