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Fires & bushfires, 1940

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Bush Fires Still Raging in Casino District Heavy Damage Casino

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 6

Huge bush fires are still raging [?] already done thousands of pounds of wor[?] of damage to State forests in this distrik[?]Forestry gangs have found it impossi[?]…

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Grass Fire at Rowan

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 2

A grass fire destroyed between 15 and 20 seres of grass os the property of Mr. W. E. Angel at Rowan yesterday afternoon. The fire appeared to start…

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Leeton Fire Brigade Fire President Mat Visit-leeton Mr. Mototford's Statement Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 4

It Is expected that Mr Smith president of the Mew South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners) will visit Leeton at an early date to conduct a…

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Japanese Shot in Shanghai Fires Rage in Canton Shanghai Tuesday. (A.A.P.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 1

Another Japanese officer, Lieut. Hisal Nakasura, was shot and severely wounded in Hongkew. the Japaneseoccupied sector of the Shanghai…

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Jugiong Man Killed Crushed By Tank Tragedy at Bushfire

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 2

Les Fairall, a well-known resident of Jugiong, was killed on Saturday last, when a tank, full of water, which ha[?] was…

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Cootamunra Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade Annual Meeting

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 2

The annual meeting of the above was hold in Messrs. T. Williams and Co.'s office last Tuesday night, when there was a representative gathering of…

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Fire Brigade

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 3

A meeting of the Ganmain Fire Brigade was held recently. Mr. Pizarro reported that he had purchased a 200-gallon tank, which he had fitted with…

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Fat in the Fire

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 3

There's a rumpus in the Balkans, And there's big, hot news in store, For the fat is in the fire. Now that Greece is in the war…

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Want Fire Captain Reinstated Resolution by Progress Assn

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 5

THE meeting of the Leeton and District Progress Association on Tuesday night, carried a resolution demanding that Mr…

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German Targets Bombed British Raiders Start Many Fires London, Wednesday. (A.A.P.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 1

British bombers last night attacked petroleum sheds at Emden and shipbuilding yards at Bremerhaven and Bremen, causing 30 fires in the target…

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Correspondence Settler's Views on Fire Captain's Dismissal (To the Editor)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 6

Sir.—The feeling of deep concern at the un-British-like action of the President of the Fire Commissioners in removing such a fine fire-fighter as…

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Racehorse Burned to Death Truck Catches Fire Near Cootamundra Cootamundra

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 8

Harry Harrold, the well-known Milvale storekeeper who brought two horses along to the Cootamundra patriotic race meeting yesterday, was taking them home last night…

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Leeton Progress Association Fire Captain's Dismissal South-west Mail Train Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 5

At the meeting of the Progress Association the president (Mr. John Brock) said he had wired the Premier protesting strongly against the action…

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Items of News Tarcutta Bush Fire Brigade

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1940 · page 4

During the bush fires last season, the Tarcutta Bush Fire Brigade lost quite a lot of equipment. The brigade is anxious that all articles be returned to A. A. O'Briens…

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Stubble Fire at Henty

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1940 · page 4

A fire broke out on "Aldershot," the property of Mr. A. T. Bunyan two miles west of Henty, about 3.15 o'ctok yesterday afternoon, in hay stubble…

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In Queensland Bush Fires and Gale Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 November 1940 · page 2

Drought conditions continue to prevail over practically the whole of the State. Sixty properties in the Gooyar district have been swept by bush fires…

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Racehorse Burned to Death Truck Catches Fire Near Cootamundra

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 11 November 1940 · page 1

Harry Harrold the well-known Milvale storekeeper who brought 2 racehorses along to the Cootamundra patriotic race meeting on Thursday…

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Bush Fires Crop and Grass Destroyed at Yathella Outbreak on Two Properties

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 4

More than 800 acres of grass and about 10 acres of crop were burnt in a fire which started on the property of Mr. C. J. Tulley, "Glenavon." Yathella about 18 miles from…

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Queensland Fires Still Raging Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 4

The bush fires which have raged alone the coast from Cooktown to the New South Wales border, and from which smoke has extended miles out…

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Serious Fire at Isle of Pines

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 2

A serious fire commenced last Tuesday on the Isle of Pine property, Boree Creek district when about 1500 acres, chiefly on forest…

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