Cottage Destroyed by Fire
A weatherboard house recently purchased by Mr. Ossie Bullock and situated on the Blowering Road near the town boundary…
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Bush Fire Control Free Service by Post Offices
The approach of summer 15 a reminder that soon the danger from bush fires will again be present and it is a matter of national importance that everything…
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LONDON, Sunday: The Italian garrison at Wolchefit (Abyssinia) has been ordered to cease firing, states an Italian communique. The communique declares that…
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"The approach of summer is a reminder that soon the danger from bush fires will again be present and it is a matter of national…
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LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).—Some of Britain's largest bombers, including Stirlings and Wellingtons, participated in the attack on industrial targets in…
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"The approach of summer is a reminder that soon the danger from bush fires will again be present and it is a matter of national importance…
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Sir,-- My copy of the "Times" of 25th inst. reached me this morning. I regret to read of the destructive fire in Parade Street last Friday…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Thirteen grazing and farming properties, embracing 18,000 acres, are already burnt out in one of the most disastrous bushfires in the…
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The annual meeting of the Kyeamba Shire Bush Advisor Council was held in the Empire Hall yesterday afternoon. Brigades were represented as…
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At 1.30 a.m. on Tuesday, a bright glare south of the railway, awakened various residents, and by a series of âchainâ messages, Fireman carberry…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire which broke out in the five-storey storehouse of M'Corquodale Bros, flour millers in Sussex-street, Sydney, early this…
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At 11 last night someone used the public telephone near Mr. Albert Stenner's shop in Warren's Sub., and called the Fire Brigade to the home…
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WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—Edward Henry White, aged 28 years, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having maliciously set fire to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ganmain Bush Fire Brigade National Emergency Danger Annual Meeting
Al the annual meeting of the [?] Bush Fire Brigade, held recently the Chair was occupted by the Retiring President, Mr. L. W. Jones, others…
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The following address was delivered before the Southern District Agricultural Bureau Conference at Coolamon by Mr. Noel Griffiths, acting honorary…
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THE necessity, or otherwise of a volunteer bushfire fighter having to get his name entered in a book, kept by the captain of a It was claimed that there was no necessity for a volunteer to have his name thus recorded, it the body controlling local bushfire brigades had a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Greek Port Raided Big Fires in Piraeus Widespread Bombing
LONDON, Wednesday. (A.A.P.)—Piraeus, the port of Athens and the centre of important oil concentrations in the Eastern Mediterranean, was…
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The Junee Fire Brigade was called out on Friday afternoon to a fire in a motor car in front of Sheather's garage in Cox-street. The car was the…
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NEW YORK, Sunday: An unexpected fire destroyed six buildings containing huge stocks of defence materials at the Firestone Rubber…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cootamundra Soldier Decorated Heroic Action in Greece Under Heavy Fire
Captain H. S. Conkey, of Cootamundra, is among the members of the A.I.F., whose decoration for gallantry in Greece, Crete and Tobruk was…
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