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Fires & bushfires, 1944

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Lessons in Fire Fighting Experiences of a Wagga Man At the Disastrous Victiorian Fires

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 February 1944 · page 3

I noticed in your paper of January 20 that you made reference to my being present at the recent disastrous Wangaratta fire, and it occurred to…

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Bush Fires Materials to Replace Buildings and Fences

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 4

To ensure speedy distribution of materials required to replace fences and buildings destroyed by bush fires, the Directorate of…

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Bush Fire Relief Officials Visit Burnt Areas

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 2

Mr. Max Henry and Mr. C. J. Jacka, two members of the Bush Fire Relief Committe recently set up by the Commonwealth and State Governments…

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Wee Jasper Bush Fire Nearly 8000 Acres Burnt 800 Sheep Lost

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 7

At the fire at Wee Jasper last week, in thickly-timbered country which had been rung approximately ten years, and which carried a heavy…

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Failure to Extinguish Fire Local Man Fined £5

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 2

At the Tumut Police Court yesterday before Mr. Sargeson, P.M., Arthur W. Graham was fined £5, with court costs 10,…

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Jindalee Shire Council Fire-fighting Unit to Be Bought £10 Voted to Relief Fund

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 6

The Jindalee Shire Council decided on Tuesday night to spend over £100 an a fire-fighting unit. The meeting also resolved to vote £10 to the Cootamundra Bush Fire Relief Fund. Bush fires were the main items of discussion, and the…

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Grass Fire at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1944 · page 4

The Junee Fire Brigade, finder Captain W. Edwards, was called to a grass fire yesterday afternoon on the orchard property owned…

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Western Yunnan Province Fires Started by U.s. Planes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1944 · page 1

CHUNGKING, Friday (AAP): Fires from which smoke rose 10,000 ft. were started by American fighter-bombers in an attack…

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Bush Fires Position of jurymen Landowners Should Not Be Called, Says Judge Berne

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2

Unusual but very natural incidents marked the bearing of a case on Tuesday at Yass Quarter Sessions. It directed attention to the…

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Gundagai Graziers Assn. Gets Results Bush Fire Fighters And Rationed Commodities

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2

At last month's annual meeting of the Gundagai Graziers Assn, Mr Alec Nicholls informed the meeting that when requested to bring,…

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Fire in Batlow District

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2

It is reported from Batlow that a fire broke out on "Wybalena" after the train had passed, but fortunately it burnt away from the homestead…

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Fire at River Bank

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2

Shortly before 5.30 pm. yesterday, the Wagga Fire Brigade received a call to the river bank between Sturt and Kincaid streets. Wagga, where…

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Items of News Prompt Action Prevents Fire Spread

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2

Prompt action on the part of a shop assistant in ringing the Wagga Fire Brigade saved serious damage being done to Messrs. David…

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Bush Fires Affect Jurymen

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 4

Unusual, but very natural, incidents marked the hearing of a case on Tuesday at Yass Quarter Sessions. It directed attention to the unenviable…

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Bush Fires Last Week-end

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3

There were two bush fires at the week-end. One destroyed about 1000 acres of rough grazing country on "Fontenoy," Wallendbeen, the…

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N.S.W. Bush Fire Warning

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A warning that bush fires are possible in the central and south-eastern areas of the…

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Victorian Fires Rain to the Rescue

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The danger from bush fires was considerably reduced early this morning as a result of rain and a change in the wind. The…

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Large Quantity of Hay Burnt Big Blaze on Toorak Road

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3

A destructive fire occurred on the Misses Grant's property on Toorak Road on Thursday afternoon" last, when a large quantity of hay that was…

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Grass Fire at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 2

The Junee Fire Brigade, under Captain W. Edwards, was called to a grass fire in the yard of J. S. Taylor's shops in Broadway. Storage sheds were in…

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Big Fires In Victoria Morwell and Yallourn Three Burned to Death

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday: Big fires to-day swept near the electric power centre of Yallourn and raged inside the township of Morewell. where one…

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