Deadly Bushfires
In the “Workers’ Weekly” you have made the only attempt so far to deal with the bushfire question, and you go to the correct source for suggestions—…
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Unity in Beating Bushfires
A conference of commonwealth and State authorities to improve bushfire prevention methods, is…
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The ability of motor cycles to maintain vital communications under difficult conditions was demonstrated during the Victorian bushfires…
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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the National Military Band provided the feature items at a concert in the Town Hall…
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The wet weather was responsible for a great variety of dressing at the concert held at the Town Hall last night in aid of…
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THE fires in Victoria and N.S.W. bring to mind the truth of the saying that "Fire and water are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Original Verse Fire Fairies
There are fairies in the fire, that I know, If you kneel upon the carpet and then blow,…
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Next year we will have bushfires again, and the next year again. Let us burn off all the year round and have no bushes left to have bushfires with, How…
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After robbing two grocers' shops at Bankstown; thieves set fire to them. Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. G. R. Williams) yesterday inquired into…
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The Goulburn district stock inspector, Mr. W. F. Hildred, after visiting the grazing districts around Crookwell, where damage had been reported from bushfires, states that the…
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The Acting City Coroner. Mr. C. T. Wood, yesterday found that Harry Olienikoff, 24, chiropodist, had maliciously caused a fire in…
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There was an amazing scene at Waikato when a vast scrub fire was caught in a whirlwind. Volumes of smoke and sheets of…
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Harry Olienkoff, 24, chiropodist, was yesterday committed for trial by the Acting City Coroner, Mr. Wood, on a charge of maliciously setting fire to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Hy the Camp Fires with Dr. Donald Thomson.—iv. Placating the Ghosts of Arnhem Land. Ceremonial Dances. a Water Lily Diet
We stood outside the camp and waited. This was the critical moment. Two or three of the old men advanced, unarmed, slowly toward us, without haste, with a casualness that was too studied, too correct. A few words were exchanged—…
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Penrose, in the Moss Vale Circuit, has suffered heavily by the disastrous bushfire on Saturday, 14th January. Five Methodist families have lost nearly everything. Three Methodist homes were…
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Apart from the evident destruction, bushfires must leave a strange variety of impressions on the minds of those who witness them. The one I saw was…
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Aerial patrols over bush and forest areas in New South Wales, to give warning of bushftres were suggested yesterday at a meeting of the Bushfires…
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A thousand million feet of millable timber and about 4,000,000 acres of State forests were destroyed by the recent bushfires, in Victoria, according…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Bushfire Menace. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Every observant bushman knows that after a fire has passed over an area, that area is safe from serious fire for at least two years. He knows, also, that if the waste matter shed…
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Vila, capital of the New Hebrides, 1375 miles from Sydney, felt the effects of the Australian bushfires…
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