Local Items Grass Fire in Wagga; Warning on Danger
The Wagga Fire Brigade received a call yesterday to a grass fire in Church Street. The fire was quickly extinguished and…
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Bushfire Danger
Regulations governing the lighting of fires in the open air are announced by the Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley. They are embodied…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arson Charge Follows Blaze at Barmedman
Following a £5000 blaze at Barmedman on Sunday night last, a man was arrested on a chare of arson at Barmedman…
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Following a £5000 blaze at Barmedman on Sunday night, of last week a man was arrested on a charge of arson at Barmedman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Flood Blocks Hume Highway £1670 Fire in Semi-Trailer
A flood blocking the Hume Highway at Tarcutta throughout Saturday and early yesterday morning caused a £1670 fire in a semi-trailer. The blaze began in petrol drained from a flooded…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—A man who was horribly burned when thrown from his car into blazing undergrowth in French is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brown Lucerne Hay Greater Fire Risk but Palatable To Stock
Brown lucerne hay is often made accidentally, but sometimes by design, points out the Division of Plant Industry of the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfire Victim Dies
SYDNEY, Monday: A man who was horribly burned when thrown from his car into blazing undergrowth in French's…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—A man was burned to death in his home at Granville early this morning. He was James Sydney…
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MELBOURNE, The R.A.A.F. has agreed to allot helicopters to the Forestry Commission in fighting Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Oat Crop Damaged
The first bush fire of the season broke out yesterday in a paddock of cats, being out for hay, on the property of Mr. J. Lewington,…
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The bush fire season is with us Everything thing points to an unusually dry summer a red hot one, with bush fires dust storms…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Restrictions on Lighting of Fires in the Open
In this issue the Jindalee Shire Council outlines the restrictions now operating on the lighting of fires in the open…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Total Loss is Gundagai Fire
A house about two miles from Cootamundra, along the Gundagai road, was completely destroyed by fire, together with the furniture and clothing of the occupants, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire at Jindalee Quick Work by Bridge
The Cootamundra Bush Fire Brigade extinguished a blaze on a Jindalee property, early on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Protection Lockhart Brigade Re-Formed
Lockhart Bush Fire Brigade was re-formed at a meeting held on November 9th. Cr. D. L. Browne (president) occupied the chair and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Paint Survives Ordeal by Fire
Paints which will resist temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit have been developed as a result of research by C.S.I.R., the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bushfire Season, 1948-1949
The bushfire season is with us. Everything points to an unusually dry summer—a red-hot one with bush fires, dust storms and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—Pears that a woman and two children had been burned to death in a bushfire which is raging along…
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