In nine days bush fires have killed 68 persons in Victoria. Two of these were reported yesterday. More than one-half of the bodies were ...
Article : 512 wordsTowns in many areas of the State reported last night that fires had been checked by cooler conditions and rain, although there was ...
Article : 965 wordsState Cabinet appointed last night a Bush Fire Sub-committee to deal with all applications for relief by sufferers from the bush ...
Article : 1,393 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Action will probably be taken in the near future to build up an official organisation for the prevention of ...
Article : 324 wordsOn the unanimous recommendation of the finance committee, the Melbourne City Council voted £5,000 to the Lord Mayor's bush ...
Article : 226 wordsAs a result of the tragedies in the bush fires, the Forests Commission may ask the Ministry to vest in it authority to compel ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 408 wordsThe tremendous task of organising relief for nearly 1,500 refugees in the bush Are areas has been undertaken by the Red Cross Society in Melbourne, with ...
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Advertising : 308 wordsIf there were any reason to believe that present relief measures for bush-fire sufferers were inadequate, the Federal Government would assist, the Prime ...
Article : 139 wordsAfter an interview with the deputy leader of the State Parliamentary Labour party (Mr. cremean) yesterday, the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) agreed to ...
Article : 169 wordsFurther contributions of £2,567/16/9 to the Lord Mayor's (1939) Bush Fire Relief Fund, the total of which is now £11,204/12/10, were announced yesterday ...
Article : 118 wordsHearing of the widespread suffering caused by the bush fires, all officers and men of the British freighter Pilar de Larrinaga, which is lying at anchor in the ...
Article : 55 wordsPolice investigations into the causes of all bush fires are being intensified, and when inquiries are completed many prosecutions ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Governor (Lord Huntingfield) has received the following cable message from Miss Ruth Draper, the famous diseuse, who visited Melbourne last year:— ...
Article : 58 wordsA two-days' inspection of the bush fire areas will be made this week by the Premier (Mr. Dunstan), who will probably be accompanied by the Minister for Lands ...
Article : 310 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Monday. —Unusual effects of light, apparently due to the combination of low clouds and smoke from the bush fires in Australia, were ...
Article : 94 wordsAdvice of the safety of a number of refugees from Wood's Point was received yesterday by the Forests Commission through an amateur radio station. ...
Article : 102 wordsCouncillor Hemsworth, chairman of the Warrandyte branch of the Public Assistance Committee and organiser of relief for Warrandyte, has plans for building a better ...
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Advertising : 215 wordsMOE, Monday.—This afternoon the remains of Mr. Albert Bentley Saxton and his wife, who were suffocated in a dugout at Saxton's sawmill, Tanjil Bren, were ...
Article : 93 wordsDamage estimated so far at £35,000 has been caused to telephone and telegraphic equipment by the bush fires, the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs ...
Article : 138 wordsThe funeral of Mr. Frederick Topping, of Warrandyte, took place in the Preston Cemetery yesterday. Mr. Topping, who was aged 72 years, was burned in a fire ...
Article : 103 wordsThis weeks issue of "The Austialasian," which will be on sale to-morrow morning, will contain seven pages of pictures of the bush fire scenes in all the important ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Governor (Lord Huntingfield) has requested the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) to convey through the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) the following ...
Article : 72 wordsNHILL, Monday.—There was a tragic scene at the Nhill Cemetery yesterday when Walter Habel, suffering burns and shock, and supported by his sister and ...
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Advertising : 65 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—His Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) has received the following message from the Governor-General of New Zealand ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 17 Jan 1939, Page 2
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