How Do Bushfires Start?
Dear Sir,—After reading the letter by “L.M." to this column last Friday, one wonders what would happen if this comrade's suggestions were put into…
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Bushfire Relief Fund
The Lord Mayor's Bushfire Disaster Relief Fund is approaching £13,000. Gifts to-day included: Brewers' Association of N.S.W., £100:…
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Stating that trees along the frontages of his property, Masons Drive, would be a danger in the event of further bush fires, Mr. G. J. Sargent asked the council…
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"It's a disgrace to the present council chambers; I don't know what it will look like when the new building is up," said the president (Cr. Stone) at Blacktown…
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On the recommendation of the health inspector, Dundas Council decided on Wednesday to order the owner of land in Holway-street, Eastwood, to make and…
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Last night a Tasmanian bush postmistress told how she had stayed working the telephone switch with her little daughter until her home was practically surrounded by fire. She was Mrs. C. A. Dobson, of…
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Finding that Mary Ann Beveridge maliciously set' fire to a cottage at the soldiers' settlement,…
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Never wash a dog in petrol and the nlet him go. The Deputy-Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade (Mr. W. H. Beare) gave this…
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Judge Stretton, who as a Royal Commissioner, is investigating the recent bush fires in Victoria, today told a witness at the Alexandra silting that he had been guilty, in his evidence of wilful prevarication…
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Mr. R. A. Hudson, honorary secretary of the Lilyfield branch of the Loyal Orange Lodge, in a letter to the Editor of the "Herald." condemns what he describes as the "appalling…
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Open findings were recorded by the City Coroner, Mr. tingale, at the inquests to-day into the deaths of eight people who perished in bushfires in the…
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Militiamen were called out from their training camp near Seymour this morning to fight a bushfire which threatened the Strath Creek township…
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A terrific explosion occurred last night when a bushfire set alight to a large farm building in which gelignite and detonators were stored…
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WHEN bushfire swept into the little Tasmanian town of Pyengana West on Monday, the postmistress and seven children were nearly smothered in a tiny weatherboard house…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--One of the tragic bushfire's was lit by some fishermen to burn out scrub to give them an easier path to a creek…
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Several houses near Handley Avenue, Thornleigh, were threatened by bush- fires yesterday. An Unoccupied cottage owned by the…
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Penrith Council decided on Monday night to vote £5 to the district fund inaugurated at St. Marys to provide relief to sufferers from the recent bush…
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For the entertainment to be held in the Dungowan Theatre, Penrith. to-night, in aid of the bush fires relief fund, transport is being provided by…
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"GOLDEN WATTLE" (Ati[?]bah).—Since Christmas we have had some abominable bush-fires. The home of one of our friends was almost destroyed on that hot Saturday…
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A DROVER, who pleaded guilty at Boggabri Court to a charge of falling to a charge of falling to extinguish a fire, was fined £20…
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