SCIENCE Ashless cigarettes, fire-proof wood
Cigarettes that burn without ash were no mere postwar fantasy, insisted Business Bourse, a US marketing and research…
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Serious Suburban Bushfires Homes, Orchards Threatened Blaze Fought by Hundreds
MILES of blazing bushland at Marsfield, on the outskirts of Eastwood, were menacing scores of homes and orchards late this afternoon…
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MILES of blazing bushland at Marsfield, on the outskirts of Eastwood, were menacing scores of homes and orchards late this afternoon…
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MILES of blazing bushland at Marsfield, on the outskirts of Eastwood, were menacing scores of homes and orchards late this afternoon…
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A heavy pall of smoke, hundreds of feet in the air, hung over the metropolitan area today from fierce bushfires which were threatening property on the North Shore line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Alert in Victoria-- 24-Hour Ban on Gas Units
MELBOURNE, Monday. --Because of bushfire danger, cars with gas producers have been banned for 24 hours five miles outside Melbourne. With hot winds blowing, the day has been declared "critical" by the Forests Commission, which is holding men and equipment on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire Fighters At Work
THREE Ere fighters spray flames with portable extinguishers in an attempt to check the bush Ere outbreak at Marsfield, near North Ryde, today. Other fires were' reported near Gordon, Epping, and Eastwood…
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THREE fire fighters spray flaines with portable extinguishers in an attempt to check the bush fire outbreak at Marsfield, near North 2 Ryde, today. Other fires were reported near Gordon, Epping, and Eastwood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Caught Lighting Fire
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Police to-day caught a man allegedly in the act of lighting a fire, which subsequently raced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Off The Beaten Track Fire-eater on Fire
Side-show fire-eater William Foster, 17, caught fire last night. Practicing his act at Tweed Heads he omitted to squeeze the petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Threat To Roseville Links
Properly and Roseville golf links are threatened by bushfires which broke out in the Lindfield-Roseville district again…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires Menace North Shore Homes 20 Outbreaks in Victoria
Threatening homes, which were saved only by the combined efforts of firemen, police and volunteers, bushfires raged at Gordon, Eastwood and Thornleigh, and in French's Forest, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Fight Fire At East Lindfieid
A large number of soldiers, firemen and more than 50 civilians are fighting a bushfire covering more than two square miles near East Lindfieid, north of Roseville golf links. SIX houses are threatened in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers Fight Fire At East Lindfield
A large number of soldiers, firemen and more than 50 civilians are fighting a bushfire covering more than two square miles near East Lindfield, north of Roseville golf links. SIX houses are threatened in Mel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Women's News Hospital Party to Meet Naval Nurses Dover Command W.R.N.S. Work In "Hell-Fire Corner"
The drafting of 200 W.R.N.S. ratings to come to Australia to join Royal Naval establishments here has lent new interest for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfire Threatens Fireworks Factory
A big fireworks factory was endangered by flames from a bushfire in a gully below Waterloo Rood, Epping, last night. Factory officials fear the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lindfield Bushfire Spreading
A large number of soldiers, firemen and more than 50 civilians are fighting a bushfire covering more than two square…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Put on Weight While Fighting Bush Fires "State's Fattest Fireman"
After a hectic time fighting bushfires, 25 stone Ted Horwood, volunteer fireman, of Baulkham Hills, says he has put…
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A grass fire oc[?] Monday and na[?] premises. [?] allotment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Menace of Fire"
Long, dry grass and tangled masses of dead blackberry bush were "a real menace of fire to nearby homes," Mrs. E. Wearing and Mrs…
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