Mandurama Fires
GREAT damage was done by bushfires in Mandurama district. Three fires which broke out in one day were linked up within a few hours by a…
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Fire Loss Assessors Elect Office-bearers
QUEENSLAND, Victoria, South Australia, and N.S.W. delegates of the Institute of Fire Loss Assessors of Australia yesterday elected the…
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QUEENSLAND, victoria, south Australia, and N.S.W. delegates of the Institute of Fire Loss Assessors of Australia yesterday elected the…
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Fighting flames' in fumes from gin and rum which poured from bottles broken by heat, firemen saved £20,000 worth of liquor…
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THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) says he has been disturbed to hear that some people are under the erroneous impression that lighted…
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IT has town made clear that the fundamental responsibility in connection with the outbreak of bush-fires in New South Wales rests with…
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COMMENTS that great flocks of sheep were thronging the roads from Victorian bushfire areas were made at meeting of the Wade Shire…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Although firemen fought a blaze in the Forestry Commission's firewood dump at Brooklyn last night for eight and…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Although firemen fought a blaze in the Forestry Commission's firewood dump at Brooklyn last night for eight and…
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Sourabaya (Java) was heavily bombed on Saturday for the second time in three days…
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LONDON, Monday.-- Mount Vesuvius, overlooking Naples, has begun erupting again with thunderous…
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Damage estimated at about £1000 was done by fire last night to the home of Major-General F. A. Maguire, in Redmyre Road, Strathfield…
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LONDON, Monday.--British guns fired on German shipping trying to slip through the Straits of Dover last night. Firing…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.--A fire which destroyed a fashionable six storey apartment house in Brooklyn left 173 families homeless…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.--A fire which destroyed a fashionable six storey apartment house in Brooklyn left 173 families homeless…
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MACARTHURS HEADQUARTERS, Monday.—A strong force of Liberatois again attacked the Japanese naval base at…
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A.W.U. members of the Allied Works Council in Victoria provide timber for fencing and buildings destroyed in areas burnt out in the recent bush fires. This work is being done in co-operation with the State Forestry Dept…
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LONDON, Wednesday.--German planes attempted another brief, fire-raising raid on…
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LONDON, Wednesday.--German raiders showered incendiary bombs on London last night in another attempt to set the city on fire. The defenders put up a thunderous ack-ack…
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TROOPS, at an Army fire-fighting school near Sydney, burning a fire-break yesterday with a portable flame-thrower. Beaters stand by to control the fire. Members of the New South Wales Fire Brigade instruct the troops at the school, which was inaugurated…
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