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Fires & bushfires, 1946

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Goering on Trial Did Not Fire the Reichstag Realised Germany Could Not Win

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 3

NUREMBERG, Tuesday: Goering absolutely denied that he set fire to the Reichstag. He was giving evidence, on his own behalf, at the War…

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Bush Fire Control by Helicopter Victorian's Plan

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday: A member of the R.A.A.F. who plans to control the bush fire menace by the use or helicopters left Britain at the…

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Fire at Griffith Machinery Pool Depot

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 4

A fire occurred at the M.I.A. Machinery Pool Depot. Griffith, on Monday morning lest. The local manager, Mr. E. Thompson, with…

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Fire at Tottenham

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 2

Residents of Tottenham, near Trundle, formed bucket brigade to fight a fire which destroyed a bulk store and two cottages in the…

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Young Gundagai Girl Badly Burnt Falls Into Open Fire

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 28 March 1946 · page 6

When playing at her home one day recently, little Beverley Crane daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Crane, of Gundagai, tripped and…

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Western Victoria. in Two Years-fire & Flood

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 4

In two years, fire and water came to the lush social-squatter Western District of Victoria. At the end of the 1944 summer bush…

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Radio an Aid to Bush Fire Fighting Special Facilities For Councils

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: Shire councils were being afforded special facilities to purchase modem radio equipment from the Department of…

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Army Ordnance Store Fire Allegation of Deliberate Action

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 1

PERTH, Monday: The Nngarin Army ordnance fire, which on February 19 caused damage estimated at £250,000, was investigated…

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Bushfire Radios Not Favored in Wagga District

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 2

The shire councils in the Wagga district are not impressed with the value of portable radio equipment for use as part of the bush fire…

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Items of News Fires in the Open

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 2

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) advised yesterday that the lighting of fires in the open was now permitted between 7 a.m. and…

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Fires in the Open

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 4

The Chife Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) has advised that the lighting of fires in the open was now permitted between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. However, a…

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Political Question "No Cease Fire!" Says Mr. Menzies

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 2

The leader of the Federal Opposition, commenting on the political truce suggested by the lender of the Opposition in the Senate, said as far as he…

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Fire Engine Driver Sound Over An Interesting Point

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 3

A case ct much interest was decided at Sydney last week, when for the first time in the history of the Fire Brigade in New South Wales, a…

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Fire at Eveleigh Workshops

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Electrical equipment and machinery in the blower room at Eveleigh workshops was badly damaged this afternoon…

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Fire Destroys Building at Yanco High School Historic McCaughey Homestead Razed; Inmates Escape

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 2

At the Samuel McCaughey Memorial High School, Yanco, early yesterday morning, the historic old weatherboard building—the original home of the late Sir Samuel McCaughey—which was used as the maids'…

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Historic Weatherboard Building Destroyed By Fire at Y.A.H.S. Teachers and Boys Save Contents

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 2

AT 3 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the maid's quarters of the Yanco Agricultural High School, Yanco, and…

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Five Dead in London Fire

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Charles Henry Clarke lost two young children, his niece, his sister-in-law and his mother-in-law in…

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Careless Use of Fire Leeton Man Fined

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 4

At the Lesion police court Charles Diamond was fined £5 with 8/ costs for the careless use of fire. It was alleged that he burnt rubbish…

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Radio for Bush Fire Fighters Special Purchase Facilities Offered to Shire Councils

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 4

Shire Councils are now forded special facilities purchase modern radio equipment from the Department of…

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Restrictions on Lighting of Fires

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 4

An announcement by the Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, draws attention to the fact that the direction on 26th October…

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