Bush Fire Fund Amount Exceeds £18
The bush fire relief fund now totals £18106, as the result of further donations received yesterday. Donations not yet acknowledged are…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
445 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 23
Fire Bug? Fear at Narromine Five Outbreaks In Week £10,000 Blaze Yesterday Narromine
An incendiarist is believed to have been responsible for a fire which, early to-day, gutted the Macquarie Stores, resulting in a loss of £10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Closes To-morrow Bush Fire Relief Fund NEARLY £20 SUBSCRIBED
The contributions made locally to the Lord Mayor's Bush Fire Relief Fund now total £1913. Donations received on Saturday were:— Uncle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Narromine Seven Fires in Week Damage Totals £16,000 Business Section Guarded Narromine
The seventh fire since last Sunday, all believed to be the work of a firebug, occurred last night, when a small weatherboard cottage was found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Cost £400,000 for Insurance. Melbourne
At the half-yearly meeting of the Victorian Insurance Co. to-day. the chairman. Mr. L. S. Miller, stated that his company would lose more than…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coramba Sawmill' Damaged by Fire. Coramba
Mr. T. B. Timms sawmill at Booklana was somewhat damaged on Friday night last when a fire broke out near the boiler and engine. The cause of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brisbane Fire Woman Burned To Death Sister in Serious Condition. Brisbane
Mrs. Maud Brownlees, 53, was burned to death in her home at the Valley, Brisbane, this morning. In escaping from the fire, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£60,000 Fire Seven Ansett Planes Destroyed In Hangar Machines Fully Insured Melbourne
Complete mystery surrounds the cause of a fire which destroyed seven aeroplanes in Ansett's hangar at Essendon aerodrome early this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Relief Fund
Since the bush fire relief fund closed on Tuesday, a further amount of 5 has been received from E., H., E., O. and C. Sanders, making the total of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Use of Aeroplanes Bush Fire Prevention Forestry Commission Policy
Mr. W. R. H. Johnson, of Oliver street, Grafton, has received the following letter from the Minister for Forests, Mr. Roy S. Vincent:--…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conviction Quashed Fined for Lighting Fire. Melbourne
Finding that the Executive Council had not the power to proclaim a danger period for the lighting of fires on dates other than those recommended by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Exhumed Human Remains in N.Z. Hut Fire Tragedy Sensational Developments Auckland
Further sensational developments occurred to-day in connection with the reported death of Gordon Robert McKay, in a fire at Piha, on…
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A fire early yesterday morning which destroyed the Centennial Theatre and an adjoining private dwelling and dental surgery, did…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£11,000 Fire Ballina Theatre Gone House--Dental Surgery Four Escape in Night Attire Lismore
Over £11,000 damage was caused at Ballina early to-day when fire destroyed the Centennial 'Theatre and an adjoining private dwelling and…
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As a result of lighted paper and matches being dropped into a letter collection box in Tamworth on Tuesday night, nearly all the contents of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Horror Twenty-One Dead Hotel Guests Trapped
HALIFAX (Nova Scotia) Thursday. A fire destroyed an old landmark, the Queen's Hotel, and two other buildings and damaged a fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Inquiries Follow N.Z. Fire Victim's Life Insured for £40,000. Wellington (N.z.)
There was a further development in the Gordon Robert McKay case, when a message was sent to California, asking the police there to endeavor to…
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A long-range scheme for salvaging the timber from 6000 square miles of burnt-out forests, at a cast of move than £300,000, will be presented to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Get Out or Be Burnt Out." Narromine
"If you do not shut up or get out you will be burnt out." That was a sentence in an anonymous letter received by Mr. Jack…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Open Verdict 12 Bush Fire Victims Coroner's Comment State's Fiercest Fires Melbourne
The City Coroner, Mr. Tingate, returned an open finding at the conclusion of the inquest into the deaths of twelve persons who lost their lives…
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