Big Fires In Victoria Morwell and Yallourn Three Burned to Death
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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Fined £5 for Failure to Extinguish Fire
At the Tumut Police Court Arthur W. Graham was fined £5, with court cost 10/, for leaving a fire in the open air at Gocup on January 30…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—During the week-end residents of Griffith and Temora noticed a "ball of fire" smashing across the sky. and later…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Bush fires swept a wide area of the suburban and nearer Sydney districts to-day. The outbreaks included a fire at St…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday: When a truck taking water to a bush fire near Queanbeyan to-day overturned. William Talbot, aged 47 married, was…
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LITHGOW, Tues.—Huge bush fires, the severest in the history of this district, are now raging around Rydal. Sodwalls and…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Twelve people are now dead, about 130 houses have been destroyed, and thousands of sheep and cattle have perished as a result of bosh fires in Victoria. A train of 50 tracks caught alight at Yallourn…
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Special directions have been issued by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) to all shire councils in the State, under the emergency powers conferred…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Owing to damage done to the State [?]sctricity undertaking at Yalburn, where an open coal cut is…
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A destructive fire occurred in the Misses Grant's property on Toorak road on Thursday afternoon last, when a large quantity…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday: After an all-night battle the Lithgow fire brigade is still trving to quell [?] of the State's worst bush fires,…
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At the Tomtit Police Court Arthur W. Graham was fined 25, with court costs 10/- for leaving a fire in the open air at Gocup on…
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Special directions has been issued by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) to all shire councils in the State, under the emergency powers conferred on…
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Financial relief for bush fire sufferers will be made available at once. Announcing this the premier (Mr. M'Kell) said that…
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At last month's annual meeting of the Gundagai Graziers' Association Mr. Alec Nicholls informed the meeting that, when requested to take meat…
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The death roll in the latest bush fire outbreaks in Victoria now totals at least 18. More than 100 people have either been treated or admitted…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: Reports now being gleaned by the police in the Gippsland areas indicate that the bush fire damage…
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Many acres of valuable pasture land, some crops, and miles of fencing were destroyed by bush fires in New South Wales on Wednesday…
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ALBURY, Friday: Two brothers were committed for trial at Albury Police Court yesterday on a number of charges of having maliciously…
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The Cootamundra fire bell rang during the lunch hour on Wednesday, and the outbreak proved to be at the back of trim's shop, in a shed…
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