On the recommendation of a subcommittee comprising the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) and the Minister for Lands (Mr. Lind), ...
Article : 1,367 wordsWidespread fires are still menacing life and property in remote areas of the State. Fears are held that with the stronger hot winds forecast for to-day townships may be in danger. Last night Walwa was threatened by fires on three fronts ...
Article : 823 wordsWhile it is impossible at present to estimate the extent of the damage caused by the bush fires throughout Victoria, the value of ...
Article : 252 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—A man died in the Bega District Hospital late yesterday from burns suffered when his clothes were burned off ...
Article : 324 words"I'm not dead," declared Jim McLean, foreman of the Royston Saw Mill, at Rubicon, which was wiped out by fire on Tuesday, when he came down to Rubicon for ...
Article : 360 wordsThere are no fires now near Monett's settlement, where 13 dwellings and other buildings were destroyed on Sunday night, but ...
Article : 299 wordsWALWA.—Mr. W. Coysh, grazier, of Pine Creek, who was missing, is safe. He took refuge in a creek, while fire in big timber raged over him. ...
Article : 718 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.—Although the fire in the Mount Doran ranges, near Egerton, is still burning, the damage is limited to the standing timber in the ...
Article : 105 wordsValuable records and instruments at the Observatory's magnetic station at Toolangi, on the Healesville road, were lost in the fire which swept through the ...
Article : 69 wordsA proposal by the deputy leader of the State Labour Parliamentary party (Mr. Cremean) that a Royal Commission, be appointed to investigate the causes of ...
Article : 192 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—Flames 300ft. high were checked just in time in the Copping district yesterday, when firefighters saved three houses. Damage to ...
Article : 64 wordsBRIGHT.—Fires raging near the Kiewa Hydro-Electric camp abated to-day. The fire that destroyed homes at Deep Creek has advanced to Red Bank, and is still ...
Article : 860 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—More than half-a-dozen bush fires, the biggest of them covering a five-mile front, raged in the Adelaide hills to-day. Nearly all of ...
Article : 109 wordsStating that they regarded "The Argus" appeal as a fund to which they should give the utmost support the directors of the Plaza Theatre, Northcote gave ...
Article : 126 wordsDeep appreciation of the efforts of their employees to assist in quelling the bush fires and of their response to calls for volunteers, particularly in the Rubicon ...
Article : 68 wordsBANKRUPTCY COURT.—Before the Deputy Registrar.—In No. 3 High Court.—At 10.30.— public examinations in re Alfred Edward Metcalfe, Cecil Samuel Marks. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. J. A. Harding, a well-known Echuca district grazier, has died, aged 86 years. At one time Mr. Harding held extensive grazing areas in New South ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 13 Jan 1939, Page 2
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