Fire Prevention In Forest Areas Soil Conservation Study. Sydney
Mr. R. S. Vincent, Minister for Mines and Forests, accompanied by Mr. E. H. F. Swain, Commissioner for Forests, and Mr. E. S. Clayton, Director of the Soil…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
298 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 15
Bush Fire Danger
While the present heat wave and drought conditions continue many motorists are compelled to drive through areas where bush fires are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires How They Start Defence of the Farmers
"Carbon," of the R.A.C.A., who is regarded as one of the leading motoring authorities in Australia, spiritedly defends the farmers against the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swift New Craft Joins Thaes Fleet of Fire-floats
A new type of high speed motor boat which does just over twenty knots has just been added tot he fleet of Thames firefloats for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Engine on Fire Plane Strikes Eagle Douglas Forced To Land Pilot Saves Passengers Plucky Air Hostess Praised. Melbourne
With flames roaring from the starboard engine and some of the 11 passengers screaming from fright the Douglas airliner, Bungana, made a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire On 10-Mile Front Hundreds of Fighters. Sydney
A serious bush fire is raging 30 miles from Wagga, on the Tumbarumba side, menacing many station properties. The fire is travelling on a 10 mile…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rush Fires Threaten Wagga Township Volunteers Win Battle Many Homesteads Saved. Sydney
After fighting a fierce outbreak which had been raging for four days. 25 miles south-west of Wagga, an army of volunteers to-day brought it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trapped on Sixth Floor Hotel Fire In N.Z. Housemaid Burned to Death. Wellington (N.z.)
Miss K. Mathews, a 20-year-old housemaid, was burned to death yesterday when a fire gutted a six-storey private hotel at Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damaged by Fire
Fine destroyed an electric switchboard and damaged portion of the ceiling and one end of the refrigerating chamber at Messrs. Riley and Wilson's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Air Raids Fire Resistant Woods Australian Tests Satisfactory. Sydney
Extraordinarily satisfactory tests in favor of Australian timbers were made to-day by the National Emergency Services, the Forestry Commission and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ten-mile Front Bush Fires Near Parkes Homesteads Threatened. Parkes
On a 10-mile front bush fires have been roaring through the Harvey Ranges, 22 miles from Parkes, since Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Threaten Townships Militia Helps In Fight Heavy Damage in Victoria Melbourne
Three townships in the Tallangatta district are endangered by huge bush fires. Close on a thousand men,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Curbed By Rain Heavy Stock Losses in Victoria. Melbourne
Thunderstorms in some places arid good rain in others have curbed the bush fires which have swept through the Ovens and Mitta Valleys in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Damage Fire in Timber Yards. Sydney
Thousands of pounds worth of damage was done to-day by fire which swept through part of the A. and E. Ellis Pty., Ltd., timber yards, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inverell Fire £30,000 Damage Wine Cellars Destroyed. Inverell
Damage estimated at £30,000 was done by a fire which destroyed the wine cellars of Bukkulla vineyards this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires 1000 Men Fight One 3000 Sheep Perish Woolshed Destroyed Near Yass Wagga
The worst fire in the Tarcutta district for over thirty years was fought throughout to-day and to-night by 1000 men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →February, 1940. Bush Fires
They scorched the dark-fringed forest with tongues of red-gold flame, As onward, ever onward, by fierce winds fanned they came,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Lives Lost Victorian Bush Fires Aged Husband And Wife Death From Severe Burns Melbourne
Bush fires which broke out in Eastern Gippsland yesterday were responsible for two aged persons being so badly burned that they died…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fresh Outbreaks Bush Fires At Adelong Fight to Save Property. Sydney
Bush fires in the Adelong district on Saturday night broke out afresh again to-day. Reports indicate that the fires had advanced rapidly on Sunday in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Forest Saved Fire Near Bathurst. Bathurst
The State pine forest at Kirconnel narrowly escaped destruction by fire last night and this morning. A bush fire, swept along by a high wind,…
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