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Article : 535 wordsVictoria's most disastrous bush fires of the past have occurred during the month of February, and in the State's worst outbreaks the death roll was 40. ...
Article : 240 wordsBAIRNSDALE.—The Minister for Lands and Forests (Mr. Lind) worked with 50 men all Saturday night fighting a fire burning on 1,000 acres over Mounts ...
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Article : 119 wordsA contingent of 465 men will be sent to Tasmania by the Gallipoli Legion of Anzacs for the Anzac Day celebrations this year. ...
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Article : 98 wordsSome strange results of the weekend heat:— Water temperature at 9 a.m. yesterday— 74deg.—was the highest ever recorded at ...
Article : 560 wordsThe State Electricity Commissions Rubicon power station was in danger from a fire which raged, out of the control of the forest officers, volunteers, and men ...
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Advertising : 355 wordsFRANKSTON, Sunday.—Firemen and volunteers battled all day to-day against one of the most devastating outbreaks of fire in the history of Frankston. The town ...
Article : 290 wordsAll electric supply to places beyond Dromana was cut off by the Dromana blaze, the State Electricity Commission announced last night. To a late hour no ...
Article : 54 wordsYEA, Sunday.—After having walked two miles after he had been burned in a fire Frank Gillan, a young man, was assisted to the yea Hospital, where he ...
Article : 67 wordsSeveral urgent appeals from families burnt out in recent bush fires have been received by the State Relief Committee. Wearing apparel for adults, boys and girls, ...
Article : 65 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Tropical downpours yielding as much as 16 inches at some points, have fallen along a narrow coastal strip in the ...
Article : 80 wordsDROUIN, Sunday.—When firefighters at Longwarry had exhausted their water supply yesterday they pumped whey from a dairy ...
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Article : 120 wordsLeaping the Latrobe River, the flames roared up a gully toward that settlement. Such was the demand upon the water supply in the ...
Article : 221 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—A smash and grab raid on S. B. Heiser's Jewellery shop, in Penny's Arcade, Adelaide street, early yesterday morning, brought the total of ...
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Advertising : 120 wordsThe president of the Flinders Shire (Councillor E. Rudduck) said last night that a meeting would be held early this week to arrange for the relief of distress ...
Article : 92 wordsDeprived of liquor and locked in a house by his wife, a man drank bay rum shampoo, ammonia, rubbing alcohol, and hair oil, ate 100 ...
Article : 68 wordsECHUCA. Sunday.—After an explosion in a shed on the property of Mr. William Beeson, farmer, of Bamawm, William Lockhead, aged 45 years, employed on the ...
Article : 81 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Accosted by two men, one of whom had a scarf round his face. Victor Henry Stingle, aged 20 years, of Catley street, Burnie, was ordered at ...
Article : 73 wordsA substantial improvement in the train service on the Port Melbourne line will be introduced on Monday next. Instead of a 12-minute service at peak periods and a ...
Article : 69 wordsECHUCA, Sunday.—Andrew Adam. son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Adam, of Bandon Park, was bitten by a black snake when swimming in a pool near his home ...
Article : 91 wordsKYNETON. Sunday.—The Kyneton Agricultural Society has decided to invite the Duke and Duchess of Kent to visit the town in November to open the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 9 Jan 1939, Page 2
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