Fierce Fight Against Fire
QUEANBEYAN, Friday.--Three large grazing properties and a church in the Carwoola district are threatened by a bush fire which is being fought by 100 men…
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Fire in Doctor's Surgery
The overheating of a chemicalsaturated mo[?] in a sink led to a fire and explosion in the surgery of Dr. John Davis, at Macquarie Street…
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THE exceptionally dry summer and the great expanse of long dry pasture—which is of excellent feeding value, but also a constant…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday.--Three hundred cattle were burnt to death in a fire at the Auckland City Corporation…
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REFERRING to the fact that sales of wax matches would be banned on and after Tuesday next in Sydney and Newcastle, and that similar sales…
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CANBERRA, Friday.--Hostile natives in New Guinea have been armed and used to fight against Australian troops…
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THE bush fires which started in the Yass district on Sunday are estimated to have destroyed over 50,000 acres…
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These sheep are starching the blackened pasture land for feed after a fire had swept through a grazing property, about 12 miles from Canberra, this…
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THE Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Hartigan) claims that his Department is being wrongly blamed for fires which occurred near railway…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—A bushfire which broke out in the Queanbeyan district to-day was burning on a five-mile front…
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A serious bushfire, 14 miles from Dubbo, yesterday, was first sighted by an RAAF pilot, who raised the alarm. Immediately,…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.--A bushfire is sweeping from Bungendore towards Canberra. Bungendore is just outside the…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Bushfire control officials in Canberra said to-day that 11 fires had broken out between Queanbeyan and…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Two hundred men are fighting a strong grass fire being blown in the direction of Mirboo North, in the Gippsland area,…
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BRISBANE, Friday—A fire soon after midnight on Thursday night in a three-storey building in Elizabeth Street severely damaged the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On the Land Wool Saved From Fires Drought in West
The speeding-up of transport from inland areas has saved a considerable quantity of wool which might easily have been…
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MELBOURNE. Saturday.--Insurance claims for damage in recent Victorian bushfires are estimated to total slightly more…
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Two aboriginal babies were burned to death at Mangeenan, 157 miles from Perth, yesterday…
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POLICE will press for severe penalties for breaches of the law controlling fires, at Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →W.A.N.S. present women characters from history; bright spot in camp fire burlesque; training highlight
Behind the scenes af the Conservatorium last night. Dora Howard and Frances Wallis who played Joan of Arc and Queen Elizabeth in the historical prologue…
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