Prompt Action Saves Big Blaze
Saturday was a scorching hot day and there was enough breeze to fan encouragement to any bush fire that cropped up…
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Fire! a Coincidence
Quite a big fire is alleged to have been started near Wagga during the week as the result of the packing over a long trailer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Photographed During Sunday's Fire
Photographs taken during Sunday's fire between the Narrandera Road and the Murrumbidgee River,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lockhart's New Fire Pump
Mr. P. H. Ellerman, captain of the Lockhart Shire Council Emergency Fire Squad, has notified the members that the squad's new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grass Fire Near Camping Ground
Shortly alter 11 o'clock on Sunday morning a grass fire broke out on the drainage channel on Brobenah Road. The Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman's Narrow Escape From Fire
SYDNEY, Tuesday—Mrs. Isobel Mary Neville (80), semi-cripple, struggled from a blazing weatherboard cottage this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1500 bags of wheat destroyed by fire
MELBOURNE, Mon.: One thousand five hundred bags of wheat were destroyed when a fire swept through two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga People Thanked for Fighting Fire
It was because of the hundreds of volunteers from Wagga that Sunday's Narrandera Road fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department Reduces Zones in Making Recommendations of Wheat Varieties For Sowing in This State The wheat variety recommendations for 1954 sowing have been announced by the Division of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture. Council Wants Information on Police Intention Bush Fires in Junee Worry Aldermen
Sentiments much the same as some voiced at the Illabo Shire Council were mentioned at last night's Junee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Catches Fire on District Road. Eight Occupants Escape Unhurt
After an engine pipe blew out, a car caught fire on the Junee-Temora road on Sunday last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway to Probe Fire. Regret at Damage to Poplar Trees
The Commissioner for Railways has ordered that an investigation should be made into the cause of a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Places on Reserves
At the Gundagai Shire meeting held on Tuesday last, the question of building fire places on stock reserves was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lightning causes bushfire
Lightning struck a tree on a Westby property late yesterday and caused a bushfire which burned out about 500 acres of grassland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Fires in Railway Goodsyard
SYDNEY, Sunday: Arson squad detectives are investigating two tires which damaged railway property at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to halt fire in coal mine
SYDNEY, Sunday: Another seal is being built in an attempt to halt a fire in the State coal mine at Lithgow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charge of Lighting Fire in Bush Fire Period Without Permit
At the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Friday last, before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., Wilfred Sunshine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman charged with starting two fires
SYDNEY, Monday: A woman was charged in Lidcombe Court today with starting two fires at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at "Karoola"
A bush fire, said to have been caused by lightning, destroyed to-day about 120 acres of grass on Mr. Scott's "Karoola" property…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Blackened Tanker Towed to Port
LONDON, Tuesday — The blackened skeleton of a Royal Navy tanker, Wave victory (8128 tons) lay in Swansea Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Large Blaze in Manly Factory
SYDNEY, Thursday—Employees fled for their lives from a blazing building in Manly to-day, when an optical goods…
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