State Govt. Makes Concessions to Fire Areas
SYDNEY, Thursday: The Premier (Mr. McGirr) today confirmed that the State Government would give £20,000 as an initial grant for bushfire relief…
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Fire Damage May Be £5,000,000
Bushfire damage throughout the State was estimated at £4-million to £5-million, the Minister for Social Welfare (Mr…
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"The supply of water to Cootamundra will be maintained if the public continues to observe the restriction on its…
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A fresh outbreak of the bushfire occurred on Hampstead's property at Blowering on Wednesday at noon, but was soon got…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Agistment For Fire Area Sheep Small or Large Mobs Available Helping Unfortunate Farmers Reorganise
The District Agronomist, Mr. J. G. Ballantyne, is endeavouring to arrange tor the gistment of sheep in the…
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While donations to the Wagga Relief Appeal for distressed and graziers have been steadily mounting, more contributions of stoc[?] agistment and cash are urgently needed. Agistment is requited imm[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Bate, M.h.r. to Tour Bushfire Areas
Mr. Dalvid Fairbairn. M.H.R. has been informed by Mr. Jeff Bate, the Federal Representative of the Fire and…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.; Members of the Bushfire Committee will visit hard-hit bushfire areas of Riverina within the next…
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The Minister for Labor and industry and Social Welfare (Mr. Finnan) has recommended to the Premier (Mr, McGirr) that an…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Police are investigating fires which broke out in two suburban homes today, causing £1000…
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CAMPBELLTOWN, Friday: Albert Stephen Welsh, Bulli Road, Appin, was fined £25 with costs for a breach of…
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The Wagga Fire Brigade was called out yesterday to extinguish a small grass fire in Tompson Street, near…
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The Holbrook Shire Council will send three or four cartons of clothing to distressed residents of the Victorian village of Barnawartha, which was wiped out on Thursday. The Shire Clerk (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vast Fire Causes More Havoc: Tumut to the Murray Two men in hospital and huge stock losses reported
A homestead is believed to have been destroyed, two men are in hospital and hundreds of head of stock were burned to death as a result of fires still burning in the vast region from…
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OFF TO FIGHT bushfires (Above) these New Australian have just left a bus which rushed them from the Bonegilla Reception Depot to the Talmalmo area where a fire was threatening the township. BELOW: Climbing a steep rocky mountainside to reach the fire several miles away…
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The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) and members of the N.S.W. Bushfire Relief Committee yesterday carried out a survey of the bushfire damage in the Mangoplah and Burrandana districts. At Mangoplah the party…
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Wagga is indeed fortunate in having located on her boundaries units of the R.A.A.F. and the Australian Army, and in the city itself, its own militia unit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Former Gundagai Resident’s Big Loss in Bush Fires
Mr. Bert Barton, of the Tooma Soldier Settlement, and formerly of South Gundagai, was a heavy loser as a result…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Graham continues tour of bush fire areas
Continuing his survey of the bushfire areas over the weekend, the Wagga Member and Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) with Mr. F. L. Hedges of the Bush Fire Relief Committee, visited Coreinbob on Saturday afternoon and explained the provisions of the relief scheme to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junee Reefs Bush Fire Brigade Planning to Buy Two More Power Units
Important business was tranacted at a meeting of the Junee Reefs Bush Fire Brigade last week, and at times…
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