REMISSIONS ? Rewarding Prisoners For Fire Work
According to Prisons Department officials, a special remission of sentences on the prisoners in the afforestation camp at Mannus, who fought…
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Good Save Petrol Waggon On Fire Driver Prompt
Excitement was caused on Spit Hill, Mosman, this afternoon when a large petrol tank waggon caught…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BUSHFIRES In Timbered Country. Pine Forests Burnt. Prisoners Fight Flames. Wagga
Bushfires in the district south-east from Wagga are menacing a large area of State pine forests and homesteads. Owing to the intense heat yesterday and to-day, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Prisoners Save Town Line Up with Bags and Bushes Bushfire Fight
Fighting to the verge of collapse, prisoners from the afforestation camp helped to save the settlement of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fine Save Bush Fires Fought By Prisoners Under Control
TUMBARUMBA, Wednesday. THIN wisps of smoke on the western horizon were still rising from the ruins of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Forest Fires. Moss Vale
Acknowledging representations by the Wingecarribee Shire, the Minister for Mines and Forests (Mr. Vincent) has directed that announcement of the intention of forestry…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mystery Fires Unknown Incendiarist Causes Alarm
Knowing of no one who holds a grudge against him, Mr. G. Holmes, a large property owner at Mudgee, is at a loss to understand why…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Inquiry Into Fire
Police are investigating a fire that broke out last night in a house at Beauchamp Street, Punchbowl. Neighbors saw a reflection of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Prisoners' Work Mannus Fires Now Under Control
TUMBARUMBA, Tuesday. -- The fires that have been blazing on a 30-mile front in the Mannus district since Sunday are now under control…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Suspicious Fire at Kogarah
A fire which severely damaged two rooms and contents of a six-roomed house in Beauchamp Street, Punchbowl, last night, is being viewed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspicious Fire. Thieves Suspected
Police believe that thieves set fire to a house at Punchbowl last night after they had broken into it. Brigades from Campsie and Lakemba extinguished the outbreaks…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mysterious Fires. Three Outbreaks at Mudgee. MUDGEE
The police are mystified by three different outbreaks of fire in Mudge[?] last night, all the premises being owned by the one man. The first fire was discovered by W. Palmer,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Towns Are Threatened Alarmed Settlers Await Dawn Forest Fires
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Sweeping all before it, a bush- fire eight miles wide has destroyed 5000 acres of State…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hayshed Destroyed by Fire. Bombala
A hayshed, containing a large quantity of hay belonging to a farmer, Charles Rlchaidson, and situated three miles fiom Bombala, was destroyed by fire last night. The loss is…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Country News. Fire Damages Store. Forbes
A fire gutted the interior of the electrical store of Mr T. J. Heffernan,Rankin-street, early this morning. Mr. Heffernan and his wife, who occupy rooms at the rear of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Stevens Fires First Shot In The Referendum Campaign U.A.P. & U.c.p: Committee to Conduct Fight Preserve Constitution and Vote "No!" Labor's Duty Cleanse Rolls, Appoint Canvassers and Scrutineers
FOLLOWING several months of finessing since the bill was passed by Parliament, the Premier, Mr. Stevens, fired his first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BUSHFIRES. Worst Outbreak Checked. Settlers' Losses. Albury
A close watch is being kept over the burning timber in the Tumbarumba district, but the fire is under control. Unless winds spring up, the position is considered safe…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bush Fires Not Serious Melbourne
Although some small bushfires are still burning between Yackandandah and Kergunyah and between Bright and Tawonga towards the Bogongs,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Bush Fires Abate in Victoria More Damage Unlikely Melbourne
Reports from the majority of country centres affected by bushfires indicate that he outbreak have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Remission Prisoners Who Fought Fires
"Men who act in that way and show courage and good citizenship will certainly receive the fullest recognition." said the Minister of…
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