Town Almost Wiped Out. Bush Fire Takes Toll Hundreds Homeless. MELBOURNE
Part of the township of Clunes, in Northern Victoria, was destroyed by a bushfire last night…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
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Big Fires Rage Damage in Oberonblack Springs Area Servicemen aid Firefighters Many Properties Endangered
Two bushfires breaking out in the Black Springs—O Connell district on Saturday afternoon converged into one solid wall of flame by Saturday…
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More than 40 houses, a public hospital and a hotel were destroyed at the week-end in one of the most serious outbreaks of bushfires since…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: After a destructive w[?] and fire in the Wangaratta flared up again today. The [?] fire bell called…
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Crowds of fire fighters are standing at the ready at Beechworth in case the town is again threatened by bush fires…
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Huge fires-are raging in heavily timbered country in north-eastern Victoria, 170 miles from Melbourne, and the town of Beechworth is in…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Crowds of firefighters are standing at the ready at Beechworth. In case the town is again threatened by bushfires. At…
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For three days and nights bush fires raged in the Oberon district, and were only got under control on Monday morning…
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According to the Wellington paper a fire broke out on the property of Mr R. B. Craig, Ben Buckley, on Sunday afternoon and then…
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The storms which passed over the district tins morning brought great relief to the hundreds of men engaged in…
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The Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. Neale, said this week that urgent representations had been made to him by the Shires'…
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A bush fire of alarming deminsions started on the Bell River reserve on Sunday last, and with more than a strong breeze blowing from the north…
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On Sunday last a call for firefighters by the secretary and captain of the Cumnock Brigade, to assist to quell the fire at Boomey was promptly answered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mystery Fires at Bathurst Cafe
Proprietor of the Gu[?]leaf Cafe (Mr. Gregor), is convinced that some one is trying to put him out of business. He said yesterday, that two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire at Bathurst Dairy Five Oat Stacks Burnt Down
"Wildfire" was how Bathurst firemen described the disastrous blaze yesterday afternoon which destroyed live oat stacks valued at £500…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: Firefighters at Beechworth now have the bushfires under control. Big breaks separate the fires from the town and…
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So far there have been no further developments with regard to the two R[?]terious outbreaks of fire which occurred at the rear of the premises…
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MELBOURNE, Friday: On the fifth anniversary of the worst bu[?]ires in Australian history outbreaks of fires were reported from dozens of centres…
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The Japanese forward base of S[?] 50 miles from Finschhafen on the Huon Peninsula of New Gu[?]ea is now under fire by Australian field…
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MELBOURNE, Friday: Weaknesses in fire defence were detected from the air yesterday by the Chief Fire Officer. Mr. Lawrence, when he made…
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