BUSHFIRES. 22 Nov 1940 Dangerous Summer Ahead Then. Dangerous Summer Ahead Now. Dry Winter Then. Dry Winter Now. Nothing Unprecedented.
1940 ‘BUSHFIRES.’, Wheatbelt Tribune and Koorda Record (Wyalkatchem, WA : 1940 – 1954), 22 November, p. 1. , viewed 12 Nov 2019,https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/250821037?searchTerm=bushfires&searchLimits=#
In this week’s enlarged issue, we present for the consideration of our readers a great deal of matter dealing with bushfire control.
The articles are contributed by experts -and gleaned from authoritative sources, and we hope that they will receive the attention they deserve, and will play some part in reducing the fire menace during the dangerous summer ahead.
The information given is, we think, of a practical kind, and to follow it will-not impose undue
labour on anyone.
The dry winter just ending makes additional caution necessary in order to preserve vitally important feed for stock, and it will be found that to ensure safety, a great deal of co-operation has been arranged between the Forestry Department, the local governing bodies, and the “people in every community.
Ever since the first settlers began to cultivate Australian soil, the bushfire has been one of the greatest obstacles to prosperity and safety which farmers have had to face.