Yallourn Fire Report No General Plan of Protection
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Appointment of a trained officer to advise the State Electricity Commission in the establishment of a…
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Fatal Fire in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 28 (A.A.P.). —Twenty-one persons were fatally burned and 22 severely injured early to-day, when fire swept the New…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--Twenty-one persons were burned to death in a fire early this morning in the New Amsterdam Hotel, San…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A change of weather to-day checked a spread of bush and grass fires in several areas, particularly in the Gippsland district…
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THE Weather Bureau has issued a bushfire warning following an increase in temperature and the Presence of squally northerly winds…
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THE Weather Bureau has issued a bushfire warning following an increase in temperature and the presence of squally northerly winds…
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THE Weather Bureau has issued a bushfire warning following an increase in temperature and the presence of squaily northerly winds…
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THE Weather Bureau has issued a bushfire warning following an increase in temperature and the presence of squally northerly winds…
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Early on Monday morning a three-roomed cottage, in Mulgoa Road, Liverpool, occupied by Mr. S. Russo, was the scene of a fire. The outbreak was in the…
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G. W. Tacon (of the Australian Red Cross Society), writing to Fairfield Council, complained that land adjoining his property in Hamilton Road was an…
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CANBERRA, Thursday. -- The Minister for Labor (Mr. Holloway) promised Mr. Fuller (Lab., N.S.W.) in the House of…
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CANBERRA, Thursday. -- The Minister for Labor (Mr. Holloway) promised Mr. Fuller (Lab., N.S.W.) in the House of…
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CANBERRA, Thursday. -- The Minister for Labor (Mr. Hollo way) promised Mr. Fuller (Lab.. N.S.W.) in the House of…
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NEW YORK, March 29 (A.A.P.).— Rice that can be cooked without a fire has been developed for troops undergoing severe bombing in the…
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MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Wednesday.—When Dauntless dive-bombers were over Kavieng on Saturday they…
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MELBOURNE.—El Arish (North Queensland) branch of the Australian Communist Party, the Country Women’s Association, and the…
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THE N.S.W. Bush Fires Relief Committee is busy affording rel[?] to small graziers, wheatgrowers, [?] and vegetable growers, dairy and…
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THE vexed question whether lighted cigarette hutts caused bushfires has brought an assertion from the Chief Secretary (Mr. J…
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AS POOL of foam marks near-miss by U.S. bombers attacking a Japanese destroyer, a direct hit sets the ship on fire. Action took place off New Ireland (South-west Pacific).--U.S. Office of War Information picture…
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INNISFAIL, Friday.--All rail traffic between Cairns and Townsville was held up for 16 hours this week when a low-level bridge over the South Johnstone River, four miles from Innisfail, was damaged by fire…
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