Accident Verdict at Urana Fire Inquest
At Urana on Monday, Mr. T. A. R. Nolan, District Coroner at Lockhart held inquiries concerning the cause of three deaths at "Caloolahah Station", Urana, on the 14th September…
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Shire Engineer will control bushfire operations
When Lockhart Shire Councillors heard the Shire Clerk (Mr. Ron Selleck) read the minutes of the recent Lockhart Shire Bush…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Fire-fighters battled for five hours today to extinguish a bush fire which…
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The Yanko Shire Council, in conjunction with the New South Wales Bush Fires Committee, has organised a conference of councils and other…
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A meeting of the Euroley Bush Fire Brigade was held at the home of Mr. W. Watts on Monday evening last…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday: National Service Trainees could not take over the job of f! fighting bushfires in…
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A wooden building was totally destroyed early on Saturday morning when it caught fire. The building, owned by Mr. A…
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This is the first of a series of periodical notes on Bush Fire Fighting, and is written with the hope of achieving a greater…
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NARRANDERA, Friday: Ninety delegates from all parts of South West Riverina attended the regional conference of bush fire brigades convened by the Yanco Shire Council and held in…
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SYDNEY, Monday—An officer of the Forestry commission said today that only 10 days remained for the sale burning-off…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday: An elderly woman was burned to death, two men almost suffocated, and another man injured in a fire which broke out in a house in Summerville Road, Yarraville…
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MELBOURNE, Monday—An elderly woman was burned to death, two men almost suffocated, and another man injured in…
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WHEN an empty semi-trailer crashed over the side of the big road cutting on the Hume Highway near Tumblong last month, it burst into flames, and was completely destroyed by fire…
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KATOOMBA, Sunday: Fire fighters were busy on the Blue Mountains today dealing with outbreaks in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The bushfire danger this season in N.S.W. might be as serious as last year, the executive…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Bushfire danger Bushfire danger periods would operate over a substantial part of…
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On Tuesday representatives of Shire Councils, Forestry Officers, the Police, and of all the Bush Fire Brigades within the Urana Shire, met in conference at Urana Shire Council Chambers to discuss methods…
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WASHINGTON, Wed. A new self-propelled 85-ton artillery piece, designed to bring atomic…
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If all members of the community had the intelligence quotient of the average 12-year-old, this article would be unnecessary. But experience has shown in the past that, in the matter of the…
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On Friday last about 90 delegates representing various shire councils and bush fire brigades was held in the Council Chambers, Narrandera…
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