Threw Valuable Pearls In Fire
AUCKLAND, January 24.—A probationary nurse, aged 19, whose name was suppressed, was committed for trial…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
260 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 13
Bush Fire Victims Still Undaunted Women Refuse Shelter At The Beaches ADELAIDE
Faced with a herculean task, settlers in the Macelesfield-Meadows-Echunga district are working day and night trying to rehabilitate their bush fire-ravaged properties…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Secretary Fires 20 ROUNDS (Special to "The Miner")
LONDON, January 24.—Mr. Hore Belisha today fired, 20 rounds from a Bren gun at a target 200 yards away. The Secretary for War was visiting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News In Brief Fire At Hospital
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A foundling hospital st Broadmeadows in the Newcastle district, containing 270 children, narrowly escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire Claims May Exceed £500,000 MELBOURNE
IT is expected that claims exceeding £500,000 will be lodged by bush fire sufferers before applications…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judge To Inquire Into Cause Of Fires MELBOURNE
JUDGE Stretton, a member of the County Court Bench, accepted yesterday a Royal Commission to conduct an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Trapped by Fire Aboard Wreck Engineer's Escape MELBOURNE
ATTEMPTS to salvage the steamer Kakariki, which was sunk two years ago in a collision off Gellibrand light, in Hobson's Bay, with the loss of five lives, have again been delayed. The almost submerged wreck caught…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(Frosts And Bush Fires; N.Z. Weather Paradox Auckland (N.z.), Jan. 26
MIDSUMMER frosts are the latest development in New Zealand's extraordinary winter- in- summer weather. These have followed a series…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victorian Bushland ls In Mourning Fauna Destroyed by Bush Fires (By a Correspondent)
AWEEK'S inferno has accomplished the destruction of a century. For years zoologists and natural history societies have been warning the people of Australia that wild life was inevitably dwindling with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Use of Motors During Fires
DURING the terrific heat wave which many parts of Australia experienced, probably little thought was given to the huge saving in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Killed When Fighting Fires; Farmer's Fate HOBART
George Clarence Wagner, farmer, of Winnaleah, father of 10 children was killed when fighting a bush fire. The shell of a tree was blazing near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fruit and Vegetable Prices Rise Effect Of Heat And Fires
FRUIT prices were likely to continue to be high for about a month until the trees and plants had had an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man on Charge of Arson Frock Shop Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.—When the case against Harry Olienikoff (24), chiropodist, who is charged with having maliciously caused a fire in a frock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Helping Bush Fire Victims
WAR is perhaps the only other national calamity which could have drawn the nation together as the bush fires have done. Everywhere…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Victims Start Again
BUSH FIRE SUFFERERS have settled down to the huge task of cleaning up the ruins of their homes and property. Many are co-operating to expedite the erection of miles of fencing, and others have made a start on constructing new residences. Top—Mr. W. J. Wilson clearing ruins on his property on the outskirts of Meadows. Below—Mr. W. A. Connor's property being ref[?]ed near Meadows…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A survey during the week end of claims for assistance already lodged by bush fire sufferers…
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NARACOORTE, Monday.—In the Police Court Messrs. A. C. de Garis and E. A. Jellett ordered Robert Little (19), laborer, of Naracoorte, six…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Again In Victoria MELBOURNE
HUGE fires last night wiped out 10 homes at Lavers' Hill, Crowes and Wyelangta, and were blazing almost completely across…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →King Island Fires
LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—Half of King Island was swept by bush fires yesterday and at least eight homes and two schools were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Outbreaks of Fire Melbourne
Several outbreaks of fire have been reported in Victoria, and ono fire is raging on a 20-mile front. The danger is that several outbreaks of the…
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