Cricketers Fight Fires
Two members of the King's Parade team turned up at the Sports Ground on Saturday afternoon to continue the match against…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
677 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 4 of 34
Rain Extinguishes Fires Sydney
Early this morning misty ram on the Blue Mountains extinguished fires at Springwood. Valley Heights and Katoomba…
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A fire which has been raging at Lewis Pords since last night swept large areas of [?]esslands and crops. To-night fire-fighters were still busy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gilgandra Fires Man Arrested GILGANDRA
A MAN has been arrested at Gilgandra and charged with Incendiarism. It is alleged that he has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chased by Fire
Well-known Bathurst hotelkeeper, Mr. Tommy Lenthall, and a party who went with him to fight the bush fires near Trunkey on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bathurst District's Blackest Week-End Bush Fires Ravage District Miracle Saves Whole Town of Trunkey Many Residences Destroyed Residents Rendered Homeless—public School Wiped Out One Man Suffocated Near Trunkey Heavy Damage at Freemantle Hundreds of Acres of Grass Destroyed Settlers Lose Everything Appalling Task of Fire Fighters
As a result of the record heat wave, last week-end was the blackest ever experienced in Bathurst district. Devastating bush fires in the Trunkey, Rockley and Freemantle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Boomley Blaze Two Homes Destroyed Other Places in Danger
CHILDREN were driven into Dunedoo on Saturday from the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Evans, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Prince Street
A grass Are in Prince Street, between Hill and Sale streets, yesterday afternoon was [?] by the Fire Brigade with on e…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Food for the Fire Fighters
Mr Jack Hall. of the Club House Hotel, on Saturday organised a fund in order to supply the fire fighters high road. Every hotelkeeper in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mysterious Fires Outbreaks at Gilgandra a Youth Charged Gilgandra
For the past few days mysterious fires have occurred in and around Gilgandra. At first the outbreaks were confined to grass fires but they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Fight Fires Abekcbombie Council's Measures Equipment and Organisation Plans
"In view of what is happening through the length and breadth of Australia at the present time, I think it would be a wise thing for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires Sweep Freematle Hundreds of Acres Destroyed Miles of Fencing in Flames Loss of Sheep Feared Gailant Fight for Homestead Apalling Task of Fire Fighters
Hundreds of acres of grass, many miles of [?]ing and the loss of a number of sheep is feared as a result of two fires which broke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] Saturday. Charred [?] in Fires' Wake. Victoria's Death List Now 63. Deluge Sweeps Western Australia
Whist fires and had are taking a toll of life in the eastern States of Australia, torrential rain and floods are causing widespread [?]in Western Australia. Fifteen, people lost their lives in New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Almost Wiped Out. Shall Town of Trunkey Man Dead, £25,000 Damage. Fires Rage Near Bathurst
More than £25000 damage has bean caused by hash fires which almost wiped out Trunkey, 35 miles south of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Demon Rages Whole Towns Wiped Out Huge Death Roll MELBOURNE
RAIN has fallen on the fire-blasted areas of Victoria and checked the flames. More than 80 people are known to have been burned to death, and others are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heat Wave's Intensity Record Temperature Registrations Bushfire Devastation in Two States Lithgow Outbreaks Create Temporary Alarm
In common with the rest of the State and Victoria, Lithgow district experienced the hottest day in living memory on Saturday, when there was a culmination of a heat-wave. unprecedented in local history…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Refugees Government Assistance Granted
The Director of Government Relief (Mr. Treble) will to-day wire £50 for immediate distribution amongst the bush fire refugees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Act Graziers' Official Praises Amendment SYDNEY
The secretary of the Graziers' Association of New south Wales believes that tho action of the Chief Secretary in Introducing an amendment to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Science Congress Abo. Color Line Denounced Economics and Bush Fires Canberra
After listening to an address by Mrs. C. Tennant Kelly of the Association fort the Protection of Nation Race, the Congress carried a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires (Continued from Page 2.) Careless Camper Gets Three Months' Gaol Lit Fire Which Razed Penrose GOULBURN
How an unattended camp fire was the cause of the destruction of a township was related in the Police Court to-day when Cyril James…
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