This Week Grave Fire Danger
CALAMITOUS bush fires may be experienced in N.S.W. within the next few weeks unless the greatest precautions are observed, the Chief…
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Gas Producers As Aid to Fire Fiend
URGING that gas producora on motor vehicles should be banned, if possible, Mr. G. C. Barllott, senior agricultural instructor, stationed at…
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Bushfires this afternoon threatened the village of Hammondville and also Australia's famous tourist…
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Temperature reached 102.2 af 1.40 in Sydney today, but began to fall after 2 o'clock. Bushfires at Liverpool threatened homes and hundreds of firemen were called out. AT noon the reading was 98.3 and…
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Temperature reached 102.2 at 1.40 in Sydney today, but began to fall after 2 o'clock. Bushfires at Liverpool threatened homes and hundreds of firemen were called out. AT noon the reading was 98.3 and…
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Temperature reached 102.2 at 1.40 m Sydney today, but began to fall after 2 o'clock. Bushfires at Liverpool threatened homes and hundreds of firemen were called out. AT noon the reading was 98.3 and…
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THE bushfire season is here again —that annual threat which is extremely widespread this year, because of the general winter rains…
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Bushfires today were raging in several country districts, and lesser outbreaks were reported in Sydney suburbs. Between 11.30 am and 12.30…
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WOLLONGONG, Saturday.—Corrimal School of Arts and contents, including billiard tables, library books and a piano, were completely…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Brigades fight 25 fires in yesterday's scorcher Gasping crowds were on the beaches at 5a.m.: country towns sizzled on
THOUSANDS of people were on the beaches at 5.30 am yesterday morning cooling…
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BRISBANE, Monday. --The whole of Fraser Island off the coast at Maryborough, which has one of Queensland's most…
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BRISBANE, Monday. --The whole of Fraser Island off the coast at Maryborough, which has one of Queensland's most…
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LONDON, Monday.--One hundred thousand tons of rubber is burning at a dump in Indo-China, 18 miles from Saigon. THIS represents about half the…
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LONDON, Monday.--One hundred thousand tons of rubber is burning at a dump in Indo-China, 18 miles from Saigon. THIS represents about half the…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (A.A.P.).— The Annamese who are resisting the advancing French troops near Saigon, in French Indo-China, are…
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A bushfire which broke out at Spring Ridge, in the Quirindi district, on Friday was brought under control yesterday in the mountains…
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A bushfire swept through 60,000 acres of grassland at Spring Ridge, near Quirindi, and caused heavy damage before it was brought under control yesterday…
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FIRE brigades extinguished numbers of small grass and scrub fires in the metropolitan area today. Outbreaks were at Lane Cove…
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Firemen quickly extinguished blaze in hold of ship tied to wharf at Darling Harbor this afternoon…
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A fire this afternoon gained a strong hold in 200 acres of bushland at Dobroyd Point, near Manly, and local police were sent…
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