Sunny Corner Bushfire Brigade Formed
The rainfall for January was only 81 points, all in small sprinkles, that did practically no good, drying out almost at once. Rain is badly needed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
642 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 33
Bushfire Fiend Big Mt. Lambie Blaze Brigades Are in Action Homestead in Danger
Volunteer brigades from Wallerawang, Rydal and Meadow Flat are fighting a bushfire at Mount Lambie which is threatening Mr. Harry…
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A fire which broke out in the sawmill of Mr. David Hughes, on the Kanimbla-road, about three miles from Little Hartley, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Guest House Blaze In Second Night Outbreak Boarders Have Exciting Escape Sydney, This Afternoon
When a large guest, house on Dangar Island, in the Hawkesbury River, was gutted by fire early this morning 12 men and two women had…
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In communications to yesterday's meeting of the Turon Shire Council the councillors were informed of the formation of Bush Fire Brigades at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cause of Bushfires "Carbon" Stands by the Farmers. How Bush Fires Start.—
During the holiday week-end, I did a leisurely tour of some two or three hundred miles through the bush fire zones. To suggest that they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire Brigade Subsidy Suggested by Turon Shire
At yesterday's meeting of the Turon Shire Council. Cr. W. H. Berry. submitted a proposal for the subsidising of each Bush Fire Brigade to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dash for Life Escapes From Fire Blaze on Island Sydney
Twelve men and two women fled for their lives from a burning building on Danger Island in the Hawkesbury River, early today…
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A severe fire broke out on Taylor Bros.' property, Ilford, on Monday, 5th February, at 3 p.m. By the time the Ilford, brigade, in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire Wagga Threatened Blaze Now Under Control WAGGA
After fighting a fierce fire which has been raging for four days 20 miles south-west of Wagga, an army of volunteers to-day brought…
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IN addition to bush fires near Wagga yesterday, there were outbreaks at Merrewether (Newcastle) and Lithgow. Damage estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mudgee Graziers' Council Resolutions for Conference Bush Fire Origins Abolition of State Parliaments
AT the annual meeting of the Mudgee District Central Council of the Graziers' Association on Wednesday last there were present…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rydal Saved Grim Battle to Beat Bush Fire Gallant Fight by Volunteers Rydal
When a fierce bush fire today was within a mile and a half of Rydal, a few miles west of Lithgow., a sudden drop in the wind…
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A BURGLAR was chased along King Edward street, Pym[?]e, this morning by John Hurley…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Danger at Meroo
THE people of the Meroo district are very afraid that, if great care is not exercised by picnickers and others a serious outbreak of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burnt to Death Girl Trapped in Hotel Fire Wellington, N.Z.
Miss K. Matthews, 20 years old housemaid, was burnt to death yesterday when a fire gutted a six-storey private hotel at Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Night-long Fight 150 Volunteers Bushfire's Advance Stemmed
A hundred and fifty men, comprising the volunteer bushfire brigades at Rydal, Tarana, Sodwalls, Wallerawang and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burglar Surprised Fires on Householder SYDNEY
A burglar who was .surprised early this morning moving about a room occupied by John Hurley at Pymble, bolted when Hurley awakened and…
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Most of the firefighters withdrew their vigilance about noon on Saturday, when everything seemed to have quietened down. Never was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires Sunny Corner's Effort Saves the Township
The bushfire on Sunday at Sunny Corner would certainly, if unchecked, have been the most disastrous ever known here, as it would Have swept…
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