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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1942

586 stories in Riverina's papers · page 22 of 30

Must Have Fire-break Farmers’ Liability If a Fence Is Burnt

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 9 October 1942 · page 1

How neglect to provide a fire [?] along a boundary fence may saddle a landholder with a liability to pay for the re-erection of the whole fence, if…

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Burning - Off Strict Guard on Bushfires

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 9 October 1942 · page 1

Strict bushfire prevention measures were recently announced. During November, December, January and February, burning-off is prohibited,…

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Euberta Bush Fire Brigade

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1942 · page 2

Residents of the Euberta district are urgently requested to attend a meeting to be held at the Euberta Hall at 8 o'clock on…

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Collingullie Bush Fire Brigade

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1942 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Collingullie Bush Fire Brigade will be held on Tuesday night in the Collingullie Hall beginning at 8…

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Mitchell Shire Monthly Council Meeting Bush Fire Precaution Road to Uranquinty

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1942 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Mitchell Shire Council was held in the Shire Chambers, Johnston-street, Wagga, yesterday, the president (Cr…

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Kyeamba Shire Council's Monthly Meeting Road Plant Purchases Bushfire Dangers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1942 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Kyeamba Shire Council was held at the shire office in Wagga yesterday. Present were Councillors C. C…

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Bush Fires Burning Off Control

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 October 1942 · page 1

Urging officers of bush fire brigades and other officials to become fully seized with powers which they now have under National Security…

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£15,000 Damage Big Melbourne Fire

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 October 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Practically all resources men and equipment of metropolitan fire stations north of the Yarra were called out this…

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Furniture Van Alight Contents Destroyed Driver Unaware of Fire

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 October 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—When he pulled up at a country town yesterday the driver of a furniture van found that nothing…

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Bush Fires Burning Off Control

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 13 October 1942 · page 1

Urging officers of bush fire brigades and other officials to become fully seized with powers which they now have under National Security Act…

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Fire Fighters, TOOl

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 14 October 1942 · page 1

A number of Dubbo soldiers did good work in extinguishing a fire that threatened the approaches to the Dubbo railway bridge. They…

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Fire Breaks in Kyeamba Shire

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 October 1942 · page 2

The Kyeamba Shire Council, in an advertisement in this issue, gives notice to all landholders in the shire that fire breaks not less than 12 feet…

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Damage by Fire to South Coast Defence Works

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 October 1942 · page 4

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—A fire at the New Boulder works at Thirroul this morning caused between £5000 and £6000 damage, and vital defence…

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SANDIGO Bush Fire Brigade Re-Formed

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 16 October 1942 · page 3

A public meeting was held in the Sandigo Hall on October 4 to consider re-forming the Sandigo Bash Fire Brigade…

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Prevention of Bush Fires

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 October 1942 · page 2

As a measure for the prevention of bush fires, the Illabo Shire Council requests all property owners in the shire to complete…

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Fire in Factory Anid Store Extensive Damage

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 October 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Late last night the box factory and [?]se store of Tress Bros, and Prod[?]cers' Co-operative Distributing…

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Germans Now Have Volga Under Direct Fire. A.A.P. LONDON

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 19 October 1942 · page 1

The Germans are perilously close to the Volga in the northern sector, and the situation is still extremely grave, and is more…

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Prevent Bush Fires for National Security

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 20 October 1942 · page 1

We are approaching a season of the year always charged with menace in rural and near rural districts, but never in our history has it been so…

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Lake Albert Bush Fire Brigade

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 October 1942 · page 2

The annual general meeting of the Lake Albert Bush Fire Brigade will be held in the Lake Albert Hall on Saturday night next, beginning at 8…

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Fat in the Fire £500 Goes Up in Smoke

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 20 October 1942 · page 2

The fat was in the fire with a vengeance when a pan of dripping overturned on the fire at the homo of Mrs. Porter, of Darby Falls, and in the…

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