"Like Caesar in Judgment on Caesar" Fire Board's Suggested Inquiry
The suggestion that members of the Fire Board should visit Leeton and conduct a further inquiry into the matters connected with the…
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992 stories in Riverina's papers · page 44 of 50
Grass on Fire at Junee
The Junee fire brigade, at 1.20 p.m. yesterday, was called to the third grass fire this summer. The fire, which was near the Junee North Public School,…
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"We will have to make an example of you as a lesson to other people. Fires must not be lit without propel precautions being taken." The Bench…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire En New Moon Gardens
The Wagga Fire Brigade received a call shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon to a fire in the New Moon Gardens enclosure. A patch of dry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire Toting Cool Stores Destroyed Young
The most disastrous fire here for years occurred last night when the Young cool stores were destroyed The alarm was given at 11.40 p.m. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rumanian Quake Victims Estimated at 110,000 Fires Rage in Oilfields LONDON
Fire is adding havoc to the damage caused by the two earth quakes in Rumania, the second of which occurred to-day, and caused further panic…
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YOUNG, Wednesday: One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Young occurred shortly shortly after 11.30 on Monday night, when the Cool Stores,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leeton Fire Captain Shire Council's Request for Open Inquiry Leeton
At the meeting of the Willimbong Shire Council last night a recommendation by a special committee of the council, appointed to inquire into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fires Two Outbreaks Last
Two bush fires occurred in the Narandera district last Friday and both were attributed to carelessness on the part of persons who lit fires…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire at Boree Creek
A serious fire broke out a few days ago on the isle of Pine property. Boree Creels, when about 1500 acres, chiefly on forest lands, were destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire at Young
The most disastrous fire at Young for years occurred on Monday night when the Young cool stores were destroyed. The large building, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Illabo Shire Reduces Fire Break Size
The Illabo Shire Council decided to reduce the size of the standard fire break by half, from 66 to 33 feet. This decision followed representations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fire at Yathella. Marrar Brigade Called
At 12.45 p.m. on Monday last [?] Marrar Fire Brigade was notified of fire at Yatherlen on the property of Mr C. Tully The Marrar brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Vile Gestapo Methods—leeton People Sworn to Secrecy!" Allegations on Actions of Govt. Insurance Office Agent Council Calls For Open Inquiry Into Sacking of Fire Captain
"SUCH an action savours of the vilest and most despicable Gestapo methods," exclaimed Cr. F. C. Mountford at the Willimbeng Shire Council meeting on Tuesday evening, when he said he wished to "register an emphatic protest." against, the action of a man whom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Taranto Base Again Bombed Huge Fires Started by British Planes London
The Italian naval base at Taranto received its second plastering in two days when planes of the Fleet Air Arm made another attack on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WAGGA P.P. Board Monthly Meeting Careless Use of Fire Chairman's Warning
More care in the use of fire was urged by the chairman of the Wagga Pastures Protection Board (Mr. R. M. Davidson) at its monthly meeting yesterday. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coree Creek Fire (The Editor, "The Dally Advertiser")
Sir.—I would like you to correct the statement which appeared in your paper of Friday. November 15. Whoever was responsible for the report was evidently not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hamburg Battered All Night Heavy Damage; Big Fires Coventry Horror Avenged R.A.F. Attacks in Waves London
Described by the Berlin radio as a British reprisal for the German bombing of Coventry on the previous night, the R.A.F. on Friday night gave Hamburg, 'the second largest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Fires at Junee
The Junee Fire Brigade was called out twice yesterday—at 9.15 am. and 11.30 a.m.—to fires on vacant allot- ments on the lona subdivision. The…
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As briefly mentioned in our last issue, fire destroyed, between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., on Wednesday last, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E…
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