Bush Fires Damage at Junee Many Farmers Suffer June
The bush fires yesterday are said to have been started by sparks flying from a burning stump between Junee and Old Junee…
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Over-insured Bush Fire Cause? Farmer's Theory "Always Frightened"
Giving evidence to-day before the Royal Commission inquiring into the origin of bush fires, a Parkes district fanner expressed the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Helping Victims of Tas. Bush Fires Hundreds in Poverty Big Area Affected Hobart
AS a result of the di[?]rous bush fired which devastated practically the whole of Tasmam's prninsnis, considerable distress and poverty…
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Many miles of fencing were destroyed in a bush are in Grong Grong district. Starting on the property of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Life in Melbourne Melbourne, March 18. Boards and Fires
One effect of the almost tragic fire that occurred right in the business centre of Collins Street has been to disclose the methods of the officials or boards, or whatever they…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stopped by Rain Fires Near Gundagai Man Badly Burnt Gundagai
A fall of rain early on Saturday stopped three big bush fires close to Gundagai. One, on Henry Osborne's Gunnong…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stop Press. King-street Fire. Man Arrested
The name of the man who was injured in the explosion that preceded a fire in King-street early this morning is Marka Merchogga, aged 41 years, of Brook-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Shop Fire. Mysterious Explosion. Man Badly Injured
A mysterious explosion, resulting in a fire, occurred in the fruit and tobacconist shop of A. Nizitch, King and Sussex streets, city, shortly before 1 a.m. to-day. An unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Fiend "Could Be Foiled" Witness Confident
THE Royal Commission, which is inquiring into the best matheds of [?] the danger of bush fires, resumed its sitting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Shops Gutted Fire at Gundagai Gundagai
An early-morning fire yesterday destroyed two shops in the heart of the town. They were owned by Mrs. W. Paine, and were occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire and Cyclone at Junee Superhuman Efforts Sharefarmers Suffer
A bush- fire started at East Marrar yesterday, and travelled to wards Junee, and another broke out in another direction from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Stand, or I'll Fire!" Three Youths Caught Many Thefts
The sight of a revolver pointed at them by a plain-clothes policeman frightened three young men who were seen climbing over a fence from a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BUSH-FIRES. Over-Insurance of Crops. Witness's Allegation
Over-insurance of crops was given as one of the causes of bush-fires by a witness before the Royal Commission on Bush Fires yesterday. The commission consists of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bush Fires a Farmer's Theory OVER-INSURANCE
The over-insurance of crops is the cause of some outbreaks of bush fires in the opinion of a Parkes farmer, John Raymond Postlethwaite, who gave…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Set Fire to Their Crops Over-insuring Danger to Settlers I What Some Farmers Do What causes bush fires?
John Edward Postlcthwaitc,a Nelungnloo farmer, told the Commission yesterday that bush tires sometimes followed over-insured crops…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Raging Inferno Bush Fire Fight Motor Car Beaten Grong Grong
Travelling along a log fence, choked with dead undergrowth, a huge bush fire outdistanced a flying motor car, which, in a desperate…
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KATOOMBA, Tuesday.--Erington electric press and job printing office, in Katoomba- street, with the plant and stock, was completely gutted by fire yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Woman Smoker Bed Catches Fire
WHEN Mrs. Winifred Hewitt, who is the sole occupant of a flat in Lamrock-avenue. Bonel retired to bed shortly after midnight last night. she…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire at Gundagai. Gundagai
Early yesterday morning fire destroyed two shops in the centre of the town, owned by Mrs. W. Paine, and occupied by Messrs. Worthington and Beeby as electricians and…
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At 4.44 a.m. on Friday, Parramatta fire brigade was called out to George-street, where a single-seater Dodge ear was found to be ablaze on a vacant allotment…
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