Preventing Bushfires. Federal Lead. Conference Plan. Canberra
The Minister for the Interior, Mr. McEwen, will recommend to the Federal Cabinet when it meets in Hobart that the Commonwealth should take…
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Bushfire Menace. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—As the Housewives' Association has arranged with the Minister for Social Services. Mt. Richardson, to take charge of the appeal for clothing for victims of the bushfires, might…
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Sir,—In open spaces of timbered or scrub country with only an occasional habitation, little can be done to avert danger from bushfires. There are no water supplies or…
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Contributions to-day to the Lord Mayor's Bushfire Relief Fund brought the total to £1006 17s 6d. Gifts included £20 from the…
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The most serious bush-fires that the Dominion has experienced for many years has broken out on the East…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.--A proposal that the Commonwealth Government should invite the States to a bushfire…
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THE blast of fire that swept three States last week, taking heavy toll in human…
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The Lord Mayor. Ald. N. Nock, yesterday received a donation of £20 for his, bushfire relief fund from the Governor, Lord Wakehurst, and Lady Wakehurst…
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Bowral and Mittagong fire brigades were called to-day to an outbreak of fire in the isolation block of the Berrima District Hospital, which was being used temporarily as…
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The N.S.W. Housewives' Association is appealing for Rifts of clothing for victims or the bush fires. Mrs. Eleanor Glencross president, says…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the Camp Fires with Dr. Donald Thomson.—iii. Within Inches of a Lonela End. Bennet Bay at Last. Signal Fires Myth
Before daylight in the morning—the seventh day of the journey to Bennet Bay—we were away making north. We returned to the beach, and the going was not so difficult as previously. Ordinarily, it would have been reckoned easy walking; but we were very weak from…
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Fire destroyed the weatherboard home of Mr. L. Gardner, in Martin Street, at 2 a.m. to-day. Excellent efforts by the townspeople, with…
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The Fruitgrowers' Federation is deeply concerned over the position of many of its members, due to the recent storm and fire losses…
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GRAFTON, Friday.--W. Haupt, of Grafton, who ruined his hat in throwing water on a blazing culvert, will be paid 226 compensation by Nymboida Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Peer's Plea for Fire Victims London
"Our primary duty is to our kith and kin," writes Lord Stradbroke, a former Governor of Victoria, to "The Times," in support of the…
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The bushfires on the East Coast have destroyed the homestead of the McLean family at Matawal. The family worked strenuously to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfire Menace. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The general opinion among city dwellers appears to be that the bushfires were chiefly due to the carelessness of the people of the bush. This is nonsense. If…
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CANBERRA, Friday. -- Although sheep in the same vicinity were burnt to death, a domestic pig, which dug to on a farm near Tidbinbilla, escaped when bushfires raged…
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CANBERRA, Friday. -- Thirty guineas was donated by the Dental Trades Con[?]erence to-day for the relief of persons affected by the recent bushfires…
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Sir,--In my opinion, Mr. Drummond's remarks about young men on beaches failing to give assistance in fire-fighting last Saturday have been wrongly…
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