£400,000 Claims for Relief Vic. Bush Fire Victims Applications Total 1500 MELBOURNE
Applications by bush fire victims for relief totalled 1500 when the time for lodging claims expired. They represent claims amounting to…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
445 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 23
Young Man Fined £15 Charge Arising From Bush Fire Unusual Features in Grafton Case Appeal Against Verdict To Be Lodged
Glyn Williams, of Coaldale, a youthful stock inspector employed by the Department of Agriculture, appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., charged with having, on December 7, ignited inflammable material within ten yards of grassland, the gras…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fought Bush Fires Woman's Heroic Effort
The story of a heroic fight put up by a lone woman to save her home and four-months-old baby from raging bush fires is told by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local School Teachers Abandon Alice Springs Trip Heat and Bush Fires
Two local school teachers who had planned a motor trip to Alice Springs during the Christmas vacation, have returned home without having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burning Off By Inexperienced People Cause of Bush Fires. Melbourne
Burning of scrub by inexperienced people was the principal cause of bush fires, said the president of the Hardwood Millers' Association, Mr. F. J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FINED £15 Young Stock Inspector Aftermath of Bush Fire
Glyn Williams, of Coaldale, a young stock inspector employed by the Department of Agriculture, was fined £15 and £4 5s 4d costs at Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Danger Relieved by Rain. Melbourne
A fall of rain relieved the anxiety of fire-fighters in the Otway Forest today. Rain is falling steadily in Melbourne, and from appearances rain is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire in N.Z. Damage Set At £100,000 New Government Building Destroyed. Wellington (N.z.)
Begun eighteen months ago and on the verge of completion, a four-storied building which was to have been occupied by the Social Security…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Preventing Bush Fires
Sir,--In view of the horror of devastating fires, bringing enormous loss not only of material wealth, but the infinitely, greater loss of precious life…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maclean Red Cross Help for Bush Fire Sufferers
The Maclean branch of the Red Cross has received a letter from headquarters authorising them to conduct an appeal for clothing for the relief…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fires Inquest on Victims Manslaughter Charge? "All Points to One Man" Melbourne
Stating that the person who had caused the fire might yet find himself charged with manslaughter, the City Coroner, Mr. Tingate, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£10,000 Damage Fire in Queensland. Brisbane
Damage estimated at £10,0000 was caused by a fire in Millaa Millaa, North I Queensland, yesterday. All the buildings destroyed were of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.Z. Fire Arson Suspected. Wellington (N.z.)
A hint that he suspected that an incendiarist was responsible for the fine which destroyed the new Social Security Building yesterday, was given…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rep Cross Help Bash Fire Victims Grafton Ladies Assist 1 Fund to Be Launched
A public meeting of ladles of Grafton, which had been convened By the Grafton branch of the Red Cross Society, was held in the Town Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman's Skull Found in Bush Fire Area. Melbourne
Mystery confronts police in identifying the skull of a woman which was discovered over the week-end in the hills at Marysville, near Anderson's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Courageous Nuns Rescue Babies From Fire. Melbourne
Great courage was shown by nuns last night when they rescued babies in a fire which broke out in St. Joseph's Foundling Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Man Arrested While Fighting Bush Fires. Tumut
Police to-night charged a young man with the murder of Michael Joseph Downing, 38, a laborer, of Tumut, who was found dead in a yard adjoining the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wonderful Response Bush Fire Fund Red Cross Ask for Clothing
"The opening day of our appeal fund in connection with the distressed people, who have been affected by the terrible bush fires in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Demonstration
Coffs Harbour Fire Brigade will be represented among the 100 fire brigades of the State at the big demonstration at Katoomba from February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hospital Fires Detective Investigating Woman Inmate Questioned. Melbourne
A young woman inmate of the Broadmeadows Foundling Hospital was questioned to-day by a detective who is investigating a series of mysterious…
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