SOLDIERS fighting the flames in Toomuc Valley, between Pakenham and Cockatoo, this afternoon. This was the chief of a series of fires in areas near the city. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 748 wordsThe Weather Bureau issued another warning early today that serious danger of bush and grass fires continued, but it ...
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Article : 244 wordsCANBERRA.--While realising the difficulties in the way of Commonwealth control of bushfire fighting, because of the lack ...
Article : 593 wordsSatisfaction that the attitude of women manpower officers interviewing country girls for diversion to ...
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Advertising : 146 wordsPrivate screenings of two gangster films and "Perils of the Royal Mounted" ln a suburban theatre conducted by a lad projectionist ...
Article : 210 wordsPolice are searching for a party of hitch-hikers who are believed to have started a grass fire between seymour and ...
Article : 95 wordsSemi-trailer buses were unsuitable, the Chairman of the Melbourne Tramways Board (Mr H. H. Bell) said today. The ...
Article : 68 wordsWODONGA.--The first fire of the season in the Bethanga district occurred late yesterday near Mr Albert Terrill's property, along ...
Article : 80 wordsToday, a normal-leave day for the RAAF, all stations in fire areas stood by "on call." Parties of Army fire-fighters ...
Article : 36 wordsTen tons of straw and chaff and the back of the building, were burned by a fire at the store of C. E. Bishop, grain merchant, ...
Article : 58 wordsSharks drove bathers from the water at Elwood today. Two large sharks appeared in shallow water, within about four yards of the ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Sat 22 Jan 1944, Page 3
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