Raging Bush Fires All Day Battle in District Valleys Fight to Save Homes
Between 40 and 50 men waged an all-day battle against a fierce bushfire in the vicinity of Cullenbenbong on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1938
467 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 22 of 24
£150,000 Blaze Spectacular Fire at Waterloo Sydney
The whose of the Australian Glass Manifactureis Co.. Ltd.. works at Waicrloo. valued at millions of pounds was three tened to-day when a fire…
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It was estimated to-day that more than 30 houses were saved from the menace of the bush fires which rased in the Blue Mountains in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Windstorm and Fires at Albury ALBURY
A windstorm of high velocity rayed . in Albury last night and continual clouds of dust wore whirled through the streets, making conditions most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fourteen Brigades. Fought Fire at Glass Factory. SYDNEY
The whole of the Australian Glass Manufacturing Co's works at Waterloo valued at millions of pounds was threatened by a fire which gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bank Notes Lost in Fire Hay Home Destroyed HAY
The most serious fire for many years took place last night when one of the bluest residences in Hay, owned by Mrs. Wentworth Hill. and occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Toll Twenty Homes Destroyed Children's Dangerous Picnic Sydney
A Check of the damage done by bush ares dance the week-end showed that 20 hours had been destroyed between the Hawkesbary River and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newnes Junction How Bush Fire Started
At the recent installation of office-bearers of Katoomba, Chapter of the O.E.S., Sister Jean Donald was installed as Worthy Matron. Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Bush Fire Menace Near Gosford GOSFORD
A big fire broke out in the jungle [?]ountry south of Ocean Beach to-day [?] was fought by the local fire brigades and volunteers. In some places…
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NOW that the bush fire season has set in in earnest. everyone should be careful. At yesterday's meeting of the Cudgegong Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crisis Averted Sydney's Water Supply Result of Hsat and Bush Fires Sydney
How near Sydney was to a water shortage on Saturday was revealed by the chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board, Mr. Upton, to-day. He…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →School Fire Boys Interviewed
A number of boys have been interviewed in connection with the fire which occurred in a class-room at Lithgow Primary School on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nearly on Fire Station Master's Home
CRIES of alarm by his daughter, Miss Nell Weekes, warned Mr Weekes, stationmaster, that the residence he occupies was…
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A bush fire which might have had very serious results began on property adjoining the Co-operative Society's orchard last Thursday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Bush Fires Rydal Experience Night-long Fight Appeal to Picknickers
In a letter to the Editor Mr. Laurence Salak, of Rydal, tells of the strenuous efforts which some fellow landholders made to conquer the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Branch Office of Central Western Districts of Australia’s Largest Fire. Marine and Accident Insurance Co
The Decentralisation policy of the Queensland Insurance Co. could not have been demonstrated better in 1938 than by the erection in Anson Street, Orange, of one of the most modern business premises outside Sidney to house the central-western branch of the great organisation. Other branches of national firms are accommodated in the Queensland Insurance Building…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire Carelessness
The menace in the present season of the careless use of fire in the district was stressed at the meeting of the Bathurst Pastures Protection Board…
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Criticism of carelessness' by a compratively large number of Bathurstians in burning oft rubish and grass In the present hot, dry and windy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass and Bushes Alight Near Woollen Mills Appeal by Fire Captain
A fire broke out in blackberry bushes and grass on the bank of Farmer's Creek near the Bowenfels woollen mills yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Bathurst Fires
Tow fires occurred in Bathurst yesterday. Caused in an unusual manner, the first fire which occurred in a laundry attached to a house in…
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