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AFTER every severe visitation of bushfires, there is widespread speculation as to their origin, but the cause is actually known in less than five per cent, of cases. THE doubt, of course, applies only to the individual case. Most of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE summer of 1931-32 in Australia will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A unique close-up of one of the big Cobar fires…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THOUGH the.big fires of the far west have been subdued, conditions throughout most of the inland districts have remained favorable to the spread…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Numerous small outbreaks of bushfires are still occurring in southern inland districts. During a fire near Cowra a homestead was burnt and two stacks of hay were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →UNEMPLOYED from Young and Burrowa yesterday gave great help in arresting a bush fire that had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A five-roomed weatherboard and fibro-cement cottage at Salt Pan, Pittwater, valued at about £600, was destroyed by fire last night. The house was owned by Miss Stenning, of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Firemen playing water on the charred ruins of a weatherboard cottage in Penrose-street, Lane Cove, which caught fire yesterday and was completely destroyed. The damage was estimated at about £1000…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →BUT for the swift action of firemen in subduing an outbreak in a grocer's shop in Glebe Point-road early this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire destroyed a six-roomed weatherboard cottage, owned by Mr. Quelch. A little furniture was all that was saved. The owner was away on holidays and his wife and family…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A pretty problem in legal ethics is raised by the recent controversy between the director of the New South Wales State lottery (Mr. Whiddon) and our Chief Commissioner of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BELIEVED to have been the victim of a fiendish design on her life, Miss Martha Harris, 52, who lives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is more than a suspicion that a number of the bush fires in the Junee district have been deliberately started…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A glare in the dark western sky, like an aftermath of sunset! But at 9 o'clock, after a sultry, scorching day, it could have but one meaning and that—fire!…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cheers went up for the Penrith boys of the fire-fighting brigade, as the big 'buses, on their way back to Sydney, Pulled up in this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Their clothes ablaze with petrol, two men, A. Rushby and V. Turton, fled in terror from a railway petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To afford assistance to settlers in the western part of the State who have been affected by the recent bushfires, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fierce bush and grass fires have been raging in practically all parts of Victoria during the week. During the wet winter there was a heavy growth of grass, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two bushfires are now raging, one in the Young district and the other near Albury. Yesterday the Young fire menaced the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Minister for Lands, Mr. Tully, announces that, with a view to affording assistance to settlers in the western part of the State, who have…
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