Chickens Lost in Fire
The overheating of a kerosene lamp in a chicken brooder caused a fire to break out in the yard of Mr. W. J. Wesland's residence at 129…
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Pomingalarna Homestead Destroyed by Fire All Efforts to Save Building Fruitless
"Pomingalarna" homestead, the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Copland, seven miles from Wagga on the Urana Road,…
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On Christmas Eve. 1943, Mr. J. E. Hackney, of Jugiong, was fighting a bushfire in the Jugiong district when he was severely burned and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£50,000 Fire At Ballarat
MELBOURNE, Sunday: Only the blackened walls of the whitework factory of E. Lucas and Co. at Ballarat remained standing to-night after a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Well Known Wagga Homestead Destroyed by Fire All Efforts To Save Building Fruitless
"Pomingalarna" homestead, the home of Mr and Mrs David Copland, seven miles from Wagga on the Urana road was completely destroyed…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Escaping ammonia gas several times forced firemen out of a blazing building at Redfern to-night. The building was that…
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The historic Pomingalarna homestead. Wagga, home of Mr. and Mrs. David Copland, was destroyed by fire early on Tuesday morning. Firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfire Regulations Control of Sparks From Tractor Exhausts
Regulations recently gazetted require all farmers to fit spark arrestors to the exhausts of motor tractors, power driven harvesters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cease Fire Order Given in Syria British Intervention De Gaulle Reported As "Furious"
LONDON, Friday: An order to French troops in Syria and Lebanon to cease fire was issued last night by the general officer commanding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Latest (Second Edition) Grave New Turn in Syrian Crisis British Forces Ordered to Intervene French Warned: Must Cease Fire "To Avoid a Collision"
LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden) has revealed that Mr. Churchill has sent a message to General de Gaulle, stating that the Allied Commander in Chief in the Middle East has been ordered to intervene in the Syrian crisis to prevent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cease Fire Order in the Levant Follows British Action Backed by U.S.A. Bombshell to French Government General De Gaulle "Furious"
LONDON, Friday. (A.A.P.): An order to French troops in Syria and Lebanon to cease fire was issued last night by the general officer commanding the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rifle Which Fires Around Corners German Invention
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).—"The Germans during the last month of the war invented and put into production a rifle which…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The U.S. War Department has announced two new incendiary bombs for use against the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire at Leeton £8000 Damage Narrow Escapes From Building
Damage estimated at £8000 was caused when the Soldiers' Club at Leeton, a large two-storey building of brick, wood and cement, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Historical Building Destroyed A Spectacular Morning Blaze Soldiers' Club in Ruins
AT daybreak on Sunday one of Leeton's largest and historic buildings, formerly the home of the "father of irrigation,", the late Mr. L. A. B. Wade, and other Resident Commissioners of the M.I.A., and during the past five years the well-appointed Soldiers' Club, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire at Leeton Soldiers' Club Destroyed
Damage estimated at £8000 was caused when the Soldiers' dub a Leeton, a large two-storey building of brick, wood and cement, was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Leeton Fire Historic Building Gone
The Leeton Soldiers' Club, which was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning was one of the largest and most historic buildings in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local Government "Hire and Fire" of Employees Forestry Memorial Plan
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Commenting on recent legislation affecting country areas at the Shires' Association conference to-day, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain's "Wall of Fire" Australian Inventor's Claims
SYDNEY, Sunday: Claims by Mr. Leslie Ault garage proprietor ol Wollongong, that he invented the wall of fire with which it was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wall of Flame Defences Inspired by Australian Bush Fires
A London business man, who claims to have inspired tie idea for Britain's wall of flame defences, against a Nazi invasion, says he got…
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