An Urgent Sos From Fire Areas Vic. Townships Menaced 15-Mile Front Melbourne, Wed
It was reported this afternoon that a big bushfire is burning on a 15 miles front between Running Creek and Towonga…
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BUSHFIRES. Thrilling Incidents. Dash Through Flames in Car
Many serious bushfires which have broken out in country districts have been extinguished or are under control as a result of persistent and heroic efforts of settlers and…
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SOME well-meaning" people have advocated the formation in the city of fire brigades to be rushed to the country whenever bush fires break out. As a means of minimising the heavy loss from fries such a plan would be utterly, valueless…
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Within the last few days Hurstville Eire Brigade has received two malicious false alarm calls. One call was to attend at Wright Street, Hurstville, on…
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St. John's Park Agricultural Bureau again wrote to Cabra-Vale Council, on Monday night, asking that the Board of Fire Commissioners…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners drew Granville Council's attention to unpaid contribution due by the council for the fourth quarter of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lorry on Fire
When the driver of a motor lorry, ow[?] by Daniel Clarke, carrier, of Old South Head road. Watson's Bay was transacting business at the South Head Signal Station yesterday the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at Bexley. Incendiarism Suspected
Two fires which were found beneath the floor of the weatherboard house of Miss Martha Harris, at Mimosa Street, Bexley, at an early hour last Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electric Light Pole on Fire
At 2.27 a.m. last Saturday the Hurstville P.D. car driver noticed a high tension electric power pole in Queen's Road, near Park Road, Hurstville, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cronulla Fire Brigade Recreation Club
The moonlight excursion to National Park on Friday, January 22 last, proved a wonderful success. Two launches with 160 aboard left Gunnamatta Wharf at 8…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BUNGENDORE Camp Fire Mystery. Coroner's Inquiry
The inquest, adjourned from Bungendore, into the death of a man whose charred remains were found in a paddock near Bungendore on November 19, 1931, was continued…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ratable Property. Meat Industry and Fire Board Lands
The Local Government Department has informed municipal and shire councils that a proclamation in the "Government Gazette" makes any undertaking of the Metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Sufferers Minister's Offer of Snow Lease Country
THE offer of the Minister for Lands, Mr. Tully, to make 40,000 acres of snow lease country available to western stock owners who lost their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Factory. Owner Committed for Trial. MELBOURNE
An inquiry was held to-day by the City Coroner into a fire which occurred on November 16 at the hat factory of E. J. Merchant and Co., Queen's-parade, Clifton Hill. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ANOTHER C.P. Man Fights Fire Unusual Meeting Near Barellan
IT seems that Mr. Collins is not the only Country Party M.H.R. who has been fighting bushfres lately. The following account of Mr. H. K. Nock's…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hat Maker Charged with Arson Ex-Fire Chief's View of Lightning MELBOURNE, Thurs
At a coronial inquiry to-day into a fire which badly damaged the hat factory of Merchant and Co., at Clifton Hill on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bushfires Again Desperate Battles in South
AS was expected, the return of hot weather to the inland districts revived the bush fire peril during the week, and extensive, outbreaks have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Neither Money Nor Thanks for Bushfire Workers Davidson Caustic
Scathing criticism of the letters of Mr. McEvoy (the Western Graziers' secretary, who helped to organise the recent Boo Guard bushfire stunt)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Weather Aids Bushfire Fighters Melbourne
A welcome change in the weather brought much relief to bush-fire sufferers, and caused a full in the outbreaks in many Victorian districts…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sprinklers and Fires
So severe was the heat in the city on January 22 that several automatic fire alarms were set in operation, summoning the firemen…
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