Correspondence Schoolboys and Bushfires (To the Editor)
Sir.—As Principal of the Yanco Agricultural High School, I was somewhat disturbed on reading in your issue of Tuesday, December 8, Mr…
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Bush Fires Yerong Creek Brigade Meets
A special meeting of the Yerong Creek Bush Fire Brigade was held in the public hall. Owing to the captain (Mr. T. E Gorman) being called away…
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Reported as started by a tractor, a fire in a crop on the property of Mr. W. Baldwin, at Red Hills, near Grogan, on Monday afternoon, destroyed…
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The first rush fire of the season in this district occurred yesterday when an outbreak took place on Sir Keith Murdock's Wantabadg…
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Sir.—After reading Mr. J. McE. King's reply re the remarks'I made at a recent meeting or the Bush Fire Brigade, I feel in fairness to myself…
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The first bush fire of the season in the Wagga district occurred yesterday at Wantabadgery East, the property of Sir Keith…
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The first summer grass fire in Junee occurred in Waratah-street yesterday morning. Willing hands soon bed the flames…
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On Monday afternoon the Juglong and Coolac Bush Fire Brigades made an effective save at a fire on "Widgeongully," during which 600 acres of…
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While carting hay far Mr. C Rue, of Canowindra, a motor lorry, owned and driven by W. Lynch, caught fire, and to save it from destruction, the driver…
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When a fire started last night from a spark of an engine working on his property. Mr. G. E. Mitchell, of Sandigo, lost approximately 200 acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Footballer Hurt Tram and Fire Engine Collide
SYDNEY, Friday.—The well-known footballer, Leon Quinlivan, was one of five persons injured in a collision between a fire engine and tram in…
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The estimated cost of Junee Fire Station for 1843 is the name as for the current year (£584). The greatest items of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War in Australia "Under Fire" Australia's "Death or Glory" Boys
The quiet of a peaceful Australian valley was suddenly overwhelmed by a tornado of sound when the "death or glory" boys of…
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About 7.45 p.m. on Friday a fire broke out on Mr. E. G. Mitchell's Sunnydale property, about a quarter of a mile north of Kywong silo, and…
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When a fire broke out in a large galvanised iron building used as a storeroom at Aberdare Extended colliery, Cessnock, last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bush Fire Menace Fire Breaks Needed and Greater Co-operation Efforts of Firefighters Handicapped
WHEN members of the Yanco-Corbie Hill Volunteer Bushfire Brigade are called to a fire they find sometimes that the farmer…
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A grass fire broke out on the Gundagai flat yesterday afternoon, in the paddock owned by Mr J. C. B. Leary, opposite Anzac Park. Little…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The force which attacked Munich on Monday night was almost entirely composed of four-engine fighters…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An appeal to the people not to be careless in extin[?]shing camp fires during the holidays was made to-day by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Fighting Farmers Who Do Not Co-operate Importance of Breaks
Members of the Yanco-Corble Hill Volunteer Bushfire Brigade are surprised sometimes when they are called to extinguish a fire thai the farmers on…
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