Building and Car Destroyed by Fire
On Monday evening of last week Mr. A. C. Utting, of Maragle, was a heavy loser when a combined garage and shed on his…
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C.e. Bishop's Appeal for Fire Precautions
At the back of Bishopthorpe, Canberra, there is a scorched and blackered hill. Many of the trees are dead, many more have…
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A general fund to provide relief for Riverina victims of the recent bushfires has been opened by the Wagga branch of the Country Women's Association…
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Mr. J. S. Taylor, a member of the State Bush Fire Committee, visited Berrigan the other day and discussed bush fire matters…
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TUNIS, Wednesday — Police tired on Nationalist demonstrators yesterday when they hurled a grenade and showers…
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At a meeting held in Sydney recently the N.S.W. Rahabilitation Committee decided to make a first fortnightly payment…
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Lady Luck has not smiled on the Tumbarumba sub-branch of the R.S.L. this year in regard to its unregistered race…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes For Women C.W.A.news For all women C.W.A. bushfire fund Blind cricket C.W.A. news
The C.W.A. Rest Room has been uppermost in the minds of Wagga members for many a year, until last year, in…
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A fire totally destroyed the Ariah Park Public Hall, and its contents, including valuable picture projection equipment…
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The Wagga District Agronomist (Mr. A. G. Ballantyne) advises that the Minister for Agrics[?]ture…
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TOKIA, Friday —.Japan's worst post-war blaze, which yesterday threatened to destroy the entire coastal city of Tottorl…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Inquiry Into Fivebough Fire Burning Off Operations Had Costly Consequences
The District Coroner, Mr. W. R. Cox, conducted an inquiry at Leeton Court House on Tuesday afternoon of last week into the circumstances of a fire that occurred in the Fivebough Swamp area on the afternoon of January 11, a hot and windy…
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The bush fire hazard has now been completely relieved with, the good substantial falls of rain, states the District Agronomist…
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Yesterday morning near Tumblong, on the Hume Highway, a furniture van was completely destroyed by…
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Lockhart Shire Council, through its president, Cr. W. K. Day, and its clerk, Mr. R. B. Selleck, has convened a…
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CYRACUSE (New York) Monday: While her husband was sleeping a young woman soaked his bed with kerosene…
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The Gundagai Shire Council has convened a conference of all District Bush Fire Brigades, to be held on May 2nd. The idea of the conference is to co-ordinate the work…
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VANCOUVER (British Columbia), A.A.P.: A fire started by a grain dust explosion caused damage estimated at…
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The Leeton Fire Brigade was called out yesterday when a fire broke out in the electrical fittings at Mr. W. Shaws store in Yanco…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two-way Radio for Fire Fighting Shire Council Discuss Proposal
At Monday's meeting of the Tumut Shire Council the Engineer, Mr. G. Page, reported as follows on the question of the possibility of installing radio equipment for use in bush-fir o fighting "The letter of the 20th March…
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