Bush Fire; Quick Action by Brigades
About 11.30 a.m. on December 19, a fire broke out in a crop of wheat being harvested on the property…
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Town Fire
The wailing, weak and restricted, of the fire alarm siren on Sunday, 20th December, was heard by Mr. E. Butterfield, who out of curiosity left his home to investigate…
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MELBOURNE, Friday: Damage estimated at £30,000 was caused when fire gutted a 19-roomed mansion home owned by Mr. John Liston, a Melbourne solicitor,…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday: A bushfire yesterday razed about 430 seres at Salisbury West, 14 miles from Inglewood,…
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A fire late yesterday destroyed 60 acres of sub clover on Mr. J. J. Wenke's "Carinya" property at Walla Walla. The fire spread to within a…
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A major bush fire outbreak occurred on “Bundarbo” early in the holiday period, when close on 1,000…
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A favorable wind yesterday prevented a bushfire on a Colinrooble property from spreading towards the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires in Junee District Brigades Appear Well Organised
Since Christmas there have been half a dozen bush fires in the Junee district, mostly concentrated in the Wantiool…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass and bush fire at Square Knob House Narrowly Saved Splendid Work by Brigades
A grass fire broke out on Mr. H. W. Baldwin's property at Square Knob shortly after 2 o'clock on…
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A fire broke out in the yard, at the rear of Lanham's Cycle Store in Pine Avenue on Monday afternoon about 2.30 o'clock and…
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The Commissioner for Forests, Mr. E. L. S. Hudson, said last week that most fires which caused damage to State Forests on the North Coast and Tablelands started…
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While Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Kirkwood, of Dullah, were at Griffith on Christmas Eve, a fire broke out…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: Four lionesses in a cage were pushed to safety through blazing straw at Perry's…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: A grass fire which swept 10 acres of grass at Essendon aerodrome this morning was…
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A district landholder became "quite alarmed" at a recent bush fire when he was told that he had been ap-…
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A fire broke out in Junee this morning near the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hinds, of Percy street, and…
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NARRANDERA, Sunday: About 100 acres of grassland was burnt when a fire broke out at about 6.30 p.m. on…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday: Fire destroyed more than 1000 tons of milling logs and plant and buildings belonging…
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Two bushfires within a few miles of Wagga burnt out a total of more than a thousand acres of grass, timber and stubble during the weekend…
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Dense columns of smoke rising high into the air towards, the south attracted the attention of many people in Leeton…
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