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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
324 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 17
MACKSVILLE, Thurs.—One banana plantation has been burnt cut and many others are threatened by a large bushfire burning on the slopes of Mt. Yarrahap-pinm, about 15 miles south of Macksville…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, announced to-day that he had extended the prohibition, throughout the State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Thursday—Residents of the tiny township of Barnawartha, 16 miles from Albury, huddled in the brick and stone railway building this afternoon and watched a fire sweep through the town…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Give Evatt), said to-night reports showed that 29 homes of aborigines at Wallaga Lake, on the South Coast, were not destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MACKSVILLE, Thurs.— An appeal tn the people of the Nambucca to donate cattle and cash to assist…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SEELANDS. — A large number of residents attended a recent meeting at the Seelands Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KEMPSEY, Fri.—Kempsey to-day was blanketed by smoke from surrounding bushfires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LISMORE, Fri. — Fanned by blistering winds, aided by temperatures well over the century mark, bushfires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MACLEAN. — The hearing was concluded at Maclean Court of Petty Sessions in the prosecution by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LISMORE, Fri.—A are engine to-day crashed into a bridge and almost fell 30ft. into the Richmond River…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday—Thousands of Forestry workers and volunteers to-day fought bush fires in 14 State forests in New South Wales. By to-night, four forests had been wiped out, seven were still raging and three were under control after severely damaging the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grafton Fire Brigade received two calls within two hours at the height of yesterday's hot wind storm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires and blistering gale winds caused at least £60,000 damage in the Clarence-Coffs Harbour area yesterday during the hottest day this summer. Eleven banana plantations and three houses were destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LISMORE. Sun.—A bush fire which this week-end burned out 10 square miles of country in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KARANC[?], Sun.—Volunteer firefighters trying to control blazes in the Karangri-Upper Orara districts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Sunday.— Five homes and three garages were destroyed as Blackheath in the Blue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires whipped up by a gale force norwesterly wind last Friday morning ravaged the Coffs Harbour district and caused havoc, to banana plantations and forest land. Twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Mon.—The Minister for Conservation (Mr. Weir) said to-day he was most concerned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Mon.—A jeweller at Burnley to-day fired three shots at a man who allegedly grabbed a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Mon—.Bushfires broke cat afresh to-day in the Blackheath and Shipley districts, Blue Mountains,…
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