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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
379 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 18 of 19
The public meeting called to form bush fire brigades throughout the district decided on swift action to get the necessary authority to bring the brigades into operation. A delegation was appointed at the meeting to wait…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CORAMBA.-- At Coramba Court of Petty Sessions. Andrew Toms, of Brooklana, appeared before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Friday--To-day's interzone match lacked the fire usually expected when two top-class nations meet in the Davis Cup competition…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Fri.--Police have issued summonses against 17 men for alleged offences which resulted in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LISMORE, Friday. --A patient undergoing a major operation at Campbell Hospital, Coraki, was among 28…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COFFS HARBOUR, Sun.-- Extreme heatwave conditions caused a freshening of some bushfires in the Coffs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A bushfire which rapidly reached major proportions broke out in scrub country between Wombah and Esk River on Saturday. The fire spread rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday-- Hot weather to-day caused extensive bush fires throughout the State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although the bush fires which broke out in the Orara East forests last week are now under control, the town continues to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fanned by a high wind a fire which had been burning in the Billy's Creek area for some weeks, destroyed a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TOKIO, Mon. (A.A.P. Reuter)-- Nearly 3500. persons were left homeless when fire destroyed 800…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Mon.-- Many homes were threatened to-day by a bush fire which swept on a five mile front…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COFFS HARBOUR, Tues.-- The first steps in the formation of a Bush Fire Brigade at Coffs Harbour were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday-- Because of acute bush fire danger conditions, the Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, to-night announced that the prohibition on the lighting of open air fires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BELLINGEN.-- District Forestry Officer, Mr. J. W. Wheen, of Urunga, estimates that fires have ravaged approximately 60,000 acres in his district, which is practically the Bellingen Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →High winds late to-night fanned a gigantic bushfire on a 10-mile front from Richmond to St. Mary's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TULLYMORGAN-- There was a large attendance at the meeting at Tullymorgan to discuss the formation of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ISMAILIA, Tues. (A.A.P.).-- Four British Centurion tanks exchanged fire with Egyptian terrorists before dawn to -day, following the death of an officer and the wounding of four British military police in an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tues.-- Fire today destroyed the Austral brick works in Princes Highway. St. Peters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A recommendation that local councils be given unconditional power to proclaim or set aside bush fire…
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