Huge Timber Yard Destroyed Sydney Fire
SYDNEY, Friday: Homes and premises were threatened by a fire which destroyed a huge timber yard at Granv[?] Shortly before the blaze reached…
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Four Injured in Fire Explosions
MELBOURNE, Tues.: When 500 detonators loaded with fulminate of mercury exploded during a fire which razed the…
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Many farmers throughout the Upper Murray catchment area, and in Riverina, invite disaster from bushfire through failure to take proper precautions around their homesteads…
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Mr. R. H. Forge exposed himself to considerable danger in Junee yesterday afternoon when he disregarded fire…
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An official inquiry into the cause of the disastrous bushfires in the Riverina last summer will begin on Monday at the Wagga Court House. It is exoected to last at least…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SPEND £1,100 on Power Units Shire Council and Bush Fires
The Illabo Shire Council will ask the Bush lire Advisory Council to expend tire whole of the 1952 grant of…
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Junee residents will recall a bush fire which broke out on the lower section of "hospital hill" some months ago…
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Witnesses required to give evidence at the bushfire inquiry which starts at the Wagga Courthouse this…
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NEW YORK, Monday: A family of seven—five children and their parents—perished when fire destroyed their…
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"The Court will, be asked to decide whether there has been such a degree of negligence as would enable it to say if an indictable offence had been committed." Sergeant Don Goode, of the Sydney Police…
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At Wagga this week the District Coroner (Mr. A. N. Bott) is probing the origin of the disastrous bush fires which swept over…
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Carrathool Shire is prepared to spend approximately the same amount on the…
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Last Friday, an important conference of District Bush Fire Brigades was held at the Gundagai Shire Council…
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Forl every sheep killed by fire in this district, 20 are stolen. If compulsory insurance of sheep is to be brought about it…
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The Kyeamba Shire Council will ask Mr. E.H. Graham (Minister for Agriculture)to press for the availability of Government subsidy for sums of money raised by bushfire brigades for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brief Clash Over Price at Fire Inquir
A brief clash involving legal adviser a witness yesterday highlighted the bush[?] [?]quiry in Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£3/4-million loss estimated in Holbrook district fires Wagga Inquiry Continues
The bushfire which swept though the Holbrook district on January 25 caused a total of more then threequters of a million pounds worth of damage to properties and stock, the bushfire inquiry in Wagga was told…
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The bushfire which swept through the Holbrook district on 25th January caused it total of more than threequarters of a million pounds worth…
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A revolutionary method of fire fighting with steam fog that has been developed in Miami Florida (U.S.A.)…
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Thirteen witnesses at the bushh lire inquiry at the Wagga Court. House on Thursday told the District Coroner (Mr. A. N. Bott) that they lost…
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