Bushfire Watch-tower
The tragic bush fires of recent months have appalled everyone by their widespread destruction of life and property. Many feel that in N.S.W. had more extensive precautions been…
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Combating the Bushfire Menace
Since die disastrous fires in Victoria in 1939 an efficient forest fire-fighting and watching organisation has been developed and we illustrate three aspects of its organisation (from…
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A meeting of the Valley Heights branch of the Blue Mountains Bush Fire Relief Fund was held on Thursday,…
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Fire destroyed the stables of Dennis Burns in Beamish Street, Campsie, yesterday. Workmen from an…
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ON two charges of lighting fires on Crown land at Londonderry, a young man, Keith Leonard Rutland, of…
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Sir,—Our progress and prosperity depends on the bounty of our seasons, and the more bountiful they…
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Sir,—I have travelled through portion of the Holbrook bushfire area. The devastation of that…
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Fodder reserves in New South Wales were quite inadequate to carry the State's livestock through many months of drought, the fodder specialist of the…
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LONDON, Fri. — The Royal carriage carrying the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and the Princess Royal will drive through streets with pavements lined with silen, mourning crowds when they leave Buckingham Palace for Westminster Hall for the funeral of…
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LONDON, Fri.-- The Royal carriage carrying the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and the Princess Royal will drive v. through streets with pavements lined With silen, mourning crowds when they leave Buckingham Palace for Westminster Hall for the funeral of…
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MANY claims for losses caused in the recent bushfires were being investigated by general insurance companies in Sydney, a representative of a large company said this week. However, the claims were…
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GRASS and scrub fires continued to be a big worry to landholders in southern N.S.W. last week. Although there had been no wholesale devastation as in border districts, a haze of smoke covered a lot of country and graziers were constantly on the alert…
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FARMERS throughout New South Wales are asking only one question today as they look at the blackened finale to some of the worst bushfires in Australia's history—"How best can we…
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DESPITE recent drought and bushfires, the number and quality of entries at last week's Nowra Show was the highest on record, according to officials. The dairy cattle sections,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Women's Interests Grim Stories of Bushfire Havoc From C.W.A. State Exec. Members Branches and Groups Rally To Help Victims
GRIM STORIES of dreadful losses of stock, pastures and property as a result of the devastating bushfires which have been raging throughout New South Wales were told by members of the Country Women's State Executive, who came from all parts of the State to represent their Groups at a meeting of the C.W.A. State Executive in Sydney this week…
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BOREE CREEK BRANCH of the country Women's Association, together with the local Branch of the Red Cross,…
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NO lull in widespread outbreaks of bushfires is likely until heavy and general rains put an end to the tinder box state of great stretches of country throughout Australia. In the meantime, greater resources must be made available to cope with fresh…
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Sir,—Mr. Noel Powell, of Bilpin ("Herald," Feb. 9), hits the nail on the head when he suggests that skilled men be…
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GOSFORD, Sat.--Scores of firefighters are fighting a big blaze at Tacoma, a small fishing village on the…
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GOSFORD, Sat.--Scores of firefighters are fighting a big blaze at Tacoma, a small fishing village on the…
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