To Fight Bush Fires Local Organisation Formed
Dundas-Carlingford residents are first in the local field with an organisation for fighting and preventing local bush and grass fires. A bush…
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Motorist Started 15 Fires
A member of the N.R.M.A. has reported that a number of fires were caused at Holbrook recently by a motorist, whose car drew a gas…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fear Fires Through Paspalum
Fears that dry paspalum grass near their homes might result in disastrous fires were expressed by two ratepayers in letters to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A.W.U. Annual Convention Official Report Victorian Bush Fire Relief :: Pastoral Section Resolutions :: Agreements and Allowances :: Employment of Women Payment for Sundays
THIS is a continuation of the official report of 58th Convention of the A.W.U., Which concluded its sittings last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Refrigerators Lost in Bondi Fire
FIVE refrigerators were destroyed by a fire which broke out early today in the shop of P. W. Williams, plumber, Bondi Road, Bondi…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Interstate News VICTORIA Fire Victims
SECRETARY J. V. Stout submitted a recommendation from the Executive at a recent meeting of the Trades Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Many Fires in Helsinki Russian Raid on Finnish Capital
LONDON, Feb. 8 (A.A.P.).—A Russian communique reveals that more than 30 fires and heavy explosions were caused by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatally Burned in Tar Fire
ADELAIDE, Wednesday. -- A man, aged 61, was fatally burned at Mt. Gambler when tar he was heating boiled over, caught…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Refrigerators Lost in Bondi Fire
FIVE refrigerators were destroyed by a fire which broke out early today in the shop of P. W. Williams, plumber, Bondi Road, Bondi…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Sequel to Bushfires
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Cases arising out of the recent disastrous bushfires in Skipton district were heard ar Beaufort Police Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Measures to Prevent Bushfires
The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, yesterday urged shire councils to use their emergency powers under the National…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Communists Help to Organise Fire-fight BENDIGO—After a call for volunteers to fight bushfires sweeping down on Bendigo, Communists played a leading part in organising a united effort. CATHOLICS, protestants, A.L.P.
CATHOLICS, Protestants, A.L.P., U.A.P., U.C.P. and Communist Party members, business men and farmers were fighting side by side…
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CAMDEN, Friday.--Complete with fire-fighting equipment and emergency transport, 30 Burragorang Valley coalminers are spending their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nazi Gun Fires 1000 lb. ROCKET
LONDON, Friday.--A Zurich message says that the new German rocket gun fires a projectile weighing over 10001b. by means of compressed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nazi Gun Fires 1000 lb. ROCKET
LONDON, Friday.--A Zurich message says that the new German rocket gun fires a projectile weighing over 1000lb. by means of compressed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Marines Fire On Snipers In Solomons Bush
U.S. MARINES (above) firing at Japanese snipers hidden in the jungle at Bougainville. Landing eight miles behind the enemy lines, the Marines captured the field gun and turned it against the enemy. On right: Sergeant Francis H. Barr, a Marine combat correspondent,…
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U.S. MARINES (above) firing at Japanese snipers hidden in the jungle at Bougainville. Landing eight miles behind the enemy lines, the Marines captured the field gun and turned it against the enemy. On right: Sergeant Francis H. Barr, a Marine combat correspondent,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Marines Fire On Snipers In Solomons Bush
U.S. MARINES (above) firing at Japanese snipers hidden in the jungle at Bougainville. Landing eight miles behind the enemy lines, the Marines captured the field gun and turned it against the enemy. On right: Sergeant Francis H. Barr, a Marine combat correspondent,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Burned in Sub-station Co2 Waggon Used to Fight Fire
One man was badly burned and three othets were almost trapped when an electrical defect caused an explosion in an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Graziers Fight Bushfires
A group of prominent property owners in the Yass district who helped to fight the recent serious budh-fires in that area. From left: Mr. Amos Bush, "The Kurrajongs," Canberra Road, who lost all pastures and a haystack on his 600-acre farm; Mr. J. S. Magennis, manager, P. J…
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