Victorian fire disaster toll rises with town losses
A sweeping blaze across the Dandenong ranges and Gippsland ruins towns and mills in Victoria. Homes, bridges, and a railway line burn while hundreds are homeless and rescue workers race to find victims and recover bodies.
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Ures
Davey Vonald
Warnurton
Big Port's Creek
Church of England
Conduit
Mra Frentice
A. T ‘Wan Witting
Condah
Belgrave
Water Commission
Bunyip
Murphy
Watson
Joan A.mouth
Verah Hodges
Dorothy Grace Hodges
Children’s Hospital
Theer
Moneeth Mills
Powelltown
Verah
Florrie Hodges
St. Vincent's Poanttal
Selby
Dandenong Ranges
Dandenong
Gippsland
Morley’s Mill
Eriva
Latrobe
Local Debt Court Yields Mixed Outcomes For Residents
In Tuesday sessions of SMALL DEBTS COURT Viles and Viles and other local plaintiffs pursued several cases. Jonry Sing won £3 7s 9d plus costs, R Yelland awarded £26 12s 3d, while Wiles and Wiles with A Lawrence and J Nicholson saw defendants claim prior arrangement with tobacco growers and four months to pay. verdict favored plaintiff for £7 2s 6d with four months to pay, and one case favored the defendant with a receipt showing no prior dealings. Special sale on striped fuji shirts offered at 15s 6d by Stoddart's Ltd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viles & Viles
Butchers
Seourt
Viles & Viles Jonry Sing
R. Yelland
Wiles
Heat waves and political jests sweep distant lands
A hazy distillery of heat but reports show 104 in Sydney and 102 on Tuesday. Wongo Creek Hall Committee plans an Easter Monday sports day. Official circles anticipate a Queensland general election possibly on March 31. Britain’s national debt stands at £7,738,000,000, about £171 per person. The 1924 25 wheat pool final dividend will be paid February 24.
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Wongo Creek Hall
Auld Lang Shine
Queensland
Great Britain
Namoi Trotting Club Meeting Notice and Caution
A meeting of the Namoi Trotting Club is set for Saturday February 20 at 8 pm to discuss affiliation with the North Western Trotting Association, elect delegates, and draw up next meeting programme. Also a town notice warns trespassers on Kirconnell holdings after this date will be prosecuted. all previous permissions are revoked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Namoi Trotting Club
North Western Trotting Association
Veness
See
Kirconnell
Manilla
V. J. Byrnes
Manila
Mystery Farm Acreage Shifts on Bazzo Property
A remarkable soil movement is reported on the Pomona property of Mr. J Bazzo near Skyring's Creek Queensland. Seven acres of flat land have shifted about ninety feet since last June, dragging trees a stone wall fences and part of a banana plantation along with it as the land continues to move.
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Mystery Farm
J. Bazzo
Pomona
Skyring's Creek
Queensland
Mr Bazzo
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George Street
the Wonder Drapers
W. MO
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C. N. Scoet, Sm Beer Newsagent
Bary Films
Arthur Conan Doyle
Bansis Wallace
Lewis and —_ Love
Beery
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Samuel Hordern
Adelaide
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