Nattai Shire. Fire Relief Fund. Moneys Disbursed
The Nattai Shire Bush Fire Relief Fund has reached the total of £1542 15s. 9d. of which £1496 has been disbursed. At a meeting of the Shire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
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Amended Regulation Fires Act
An amended regulation in the Government Gazette of March 17 in respect of the Careless Use of Fires Act has deleted the name of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Bate Asks Questions. Bush Fire Sufferers
Mr. Jeff Bate: Can the Minister for Social Services say whether the Government has provided funds through the Rural Bank for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Sufferers (Extract from Hansard, 2nd March, 1939)
Mr. Jeft Bate: Can the Minister for Social Services say whether the Government has provided funds through the Rural Bank for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Berrima Fire. Prosecution Not Warranted
Nattal Shire Council requested the Chief Secretary some time age to make fall investigation into the circumstances surrounding a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prosecution Not Warranted Berrima Fire
Nattai Shire Council requested the Chief Secretary some time ago to make full investigation into the circumstances surrounding a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Failure to Extinguish Fire. Hard Case at Bowral
At the conclusion of a case at Bowral Police Court on Friday in which John Cole, of Glenquarry, was with lighting a fire in an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Failed to Extinguish Fire
The bush-fires which caused so much damaged in this district on January 14 were recalled in a case heard before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Luxembourg. Brigade Makes Good Save
A fire which broke out in the rear of tile Luxembourg guest home, at Bowral, early on Thursday morning, caused guests to hurriedly gather…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfire Relief Fund Committee Finalising Disbursements
A further meeting of the Wingecarribee Bushfire Relief Committee was held on Thursday night last at the Council Chambers, Moss Vale,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protection from Bush Fires. Councillor Urges Early Action
At the meeting of Nattai Shire Council on Saturday Cr. Toohey said steps should be taken to establish bush fire brigades immediately so that they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early Call to Fire Brigade. Mittagong Cottage
A call at 1.5 a.m. on Sunday brought nine out of the ten members of Mittagong Fire Brigade to the scene of a fire near the Maltings. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Damage. Engineer's Report to Nattai Shire
At the meeting of Nattai Shire Council on Tuesday the Engineer (Mr. R. H. Huntingdon) submitted a report regarding the repairing of bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What Our Editor Thinks Bush Fires
GREAT LOSSES are suffered by reason of bush fires, many of which are easily preventable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Menace. Nattai Shire Is Organising
Nattai Shire Council is taking steps to see that the devastation caused in the district by bush fires in January this year does not recur. Bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Making Fire With Sticks. Bowral Pilot Learns Art from Blackfellow
Exciting adventures in buffalo shooting are a feature of the letters written from the Northern Territory to a friend in Sydney by Mr. Gordon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Damage. Council to Raise Loan
The devastating bush fires which swept this district in January of this year caused widespread damage and Nattai Shire Council suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Prevention
The Nattai Shire Clerk writes:— Owing to the extraordinary growth of grass throughout the streets in the residential areas of the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brief Mention. Bush Fire
As we went to Press, we received an unconfirmed report that a bush fire at Yanderra had destroyed two cottages there. A number of men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire at Yanderra. Week-end Cottage Totally Destroyed
Fanned by a wind of almost gale force a bash fire destroyed a cottage at Yanderra on Monday and menaced several other residences. It is thought…
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