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Advertising : 535 wordsA 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 wordsGoods to the value of £12,500 have already been purchased and distributed by the Lord Mayor's (1939) Bush Fires Relief Fund ...
Article : 274 wordsSir,—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 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—Damage to Australian postal facilities resulting from the bush fires in the recent heat wave had been ...
Article : 213 words"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 wordsMr. Frank Nell, managing director of the Tivoli Circuit of Australia, in conjunction with the Bookmakers' Association of Victoria, is arranging a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 183 wordsOpposition 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsTo 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 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—A recommendation that the Federal Ministry should invite the State Governments to a conference to discuss a Commonwealth wide ...
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Advertising : 730 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—Subscriptions in Tasmania toward a fund for the relief of Victorian bush fire sufferers amount to £1,629. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsA 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsForms 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 wordsAn 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 wordsAlthough most of the bush fires which ravaged the timbered mountain country of the State last week are now under control, ...
Article : 132 wordsALBURY (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 wordsSir,—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 wordsBEECH 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 wordsAction 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsLEONGATHA, 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 wordsSir,—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 wordsThe 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 wordsSYDNEY, 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 wordsSir,—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 ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 20 Jan 1939, Page 2
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