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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 535 words
  3. SURVIVED THREE FIRES Family's Ordeal

    A small dug-out in a back yard saved the lives of a family at Icy Creek, near Noojee, which was swept by the fires. The dug-out had been constructed by ...

    Article : 287 words
  4. ASSISTING VICTIMS COMMITTEE AT WORK

    Goods to the value of £12,500 have already been purchased and distributed by the Lord Mayor's (1939) Bush Fires Relief Fund ...

    Article : 274 words
  5. Letters to the Editor THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION

    Sir,—In your paper during the last week I have been most interested to read accounts of addresses on "Education" at the Science Congress Mr. J. R. Darling, ...

    Article : 136 words
  6. DAMAGE TO PHONES £60,000 Estimate

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Damage to Australian postal facilities resulting from the bush fires in the recent heat wave had been ...

    Article : 213 words
  7. Safer Forests COURAGE OF PIONEERS

    "We will cut this timber before the ants and the sun get it; we will make roads through the devastated areas; and, for the third ...

    Article : 865 words
  8. VARIETY ARTISTS TO HELP

    Mr. Frank Nell, managing director of the Tivoli Circuit of Australia, in conjunction with the Bookmakers' Association of Victoria, is arranging a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 183 words
  9. UNIONS WANT INQUIRY Federal Grant Urged

    Opposition to any increase in taxation on low incomes was expressed in a resolution passed by the Fibrous Plasterers' Union, which has decided to ask the ...

    Article : 175 words
  10. TRADE WITH JAPAN

    Sir,—I have read with amazement the letter. "Trade With Japan," in your issue of Thursday, signed "Alex. Stewart." He says: "Geographically, the Eastern ...

    Article : 232 words
  11. SOIL EROSION ISSUE

    To consider the recent bush fires in relation to soil erosion, a conference of scientific and public organisations will be organised by the Australian Natives' ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. DISCUSSION BY PREMIERS

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—A recommendation that the Federal Ministry should invite the State Governments to a conference to discuss a Commonwealth wide ...

    Article : 131 words
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  14. TASMANIAN FUND

    HOBART, Thursday.—Subscriptions in Tasmania toward a fund for the relief of Victorian bush fire sufferers amount to £1,629. ...

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  15. URGENT RELIEF

    The relief committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund yesterday appointed a subcommittee to deal with the relief of bush fire sufferers whose need is urgent. ...

    Article : 215 words
  16. NOT A VICTIM

    Sir,—Having received numerous inquiries and letters of sympathy, permit me to state that the news broadcast and published recently to the effect that my home ...

    Article : 69 words
  17. PICTURES TELL STORY

    A concise survey of last weeks disastrous bush fires in Victoria, with special pages of photographs and a complete chronological record of the events ...

    Article : 92 words
  18. CAUSE OF BUSH FIRES

    Sir,—Are we to be loaded with the expense of a commission on the causes of bush fires—causes which are only too easy to see? Those of us who have been ...

    Article : 460 words
  19. APPLICATION FORMS

    Forms of application for assistance by bush fire sufferers were sent yesterday by the Cabinet Bush Fire Relief Committee to all affected areas, where notices will be ...

    Article : 129 words
  20. PENSIONER GIVES £5

    An old-age pensioner called on the Rev. George Gilder, vicar of Holy Trinity Church of England, Coburg, and quietly slipped five £1 notes into his hand. She ...

    Article : 72 words
  21. FIRES QUELLED

    Although most of the bush fires which ravaged the timbered mountain country of the State last week are now under control, ...

    Article : 132 words
  22. COUNTRY ASSISTANCE

    ALBURY (N.S.W.).—The bush fire relief fund at Albury has reached £500, Albury Red Cross Society giving £50 and the Albury Country Women's Association ...

    Article : 488 words
  23. BUSH FIRE RELIEF

    Sir,—A warm-hearted resident of Berkeley street, Hawthorn, wrote notes to all householders in the street asking them to give a tin of canned fruit for bush fire ...

    Article : 252 words
  24. BEECH FOREST FIRES

    BEECH FOREST, Thursday.—Fires burning in the vicinity of Chapple Vale and Laver's Hill have caused great anxiety, and employees of the Forests ...

    Article : 56 words
  25. REPAIRS TO ROADS

    Action has already been taken by the Country Roads Board to repair roads damaged by bush fires in Gippsland. The board has allocated £1,600 for the ...

    Article : 149 words
  26. PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    Sir,—Can any reader define the difference between the so-called public school "spirit" and common or garden snobbery. Mr. Oliver Baldwin, son of the ex-Prime ...

    Article : 149 words
  27. CRITICISM OF RAILWAYS

    LEONGATHA, Thursday.—"If an ordinary person lights a fire at a period of the year when such is prohibited he is brought before the court and fined; yet the ...

    Article : 152 words
  28. OFFER OF SEEDS

    Sir,—To assist in an early start in reproductive occupation, we shall be pleased to make available through the Relief Committee collections of vegetable seeds ...

    Article : 58 words
  29. RE-EMPLOYING MEN

    The use to which the sustenance branch of the Labour Department can be put in reabsorbing into industry those men whom the bush fires have left ...

    Article : 105 words
  30. SWAGMAN FINED

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—At the Tumut Police Court John James Joseph Quinlan, aged 30 years, swagman, was fined £30, in default 60 days' imprisonment, for ...

    Article : 89 words
  31. WHAT! ANOTHER TAX?

    Sir,—More than one politician suggests a special tax on account of fire calamity. While the wave of voluntary giving is so splendid the suggestion is ...

    Article : 85 words
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