£120,000 Damage In Yass Bushfires SYDNEY
Losses from the bush fires in the Yass district are estimated at £120,000. Nearly 15,000 sheep have been destroyed, 5000 of them on one…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
209 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 11
Started Fires in Street Man Remanded For Observation
A 68-YEAR-OLD returned soldier was remanded for eight days for medical observation by Mr. A. B. Collins. S.M., in the…
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A MAN left his wife and two children at the dinner table, ran from his home, and drove four lorries out of a blazing garage in Sussex…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£70,000 Sydney Fire
SYDNEY, Monday.—According to, fire brigade officers the damage caused by the fire at Nicholson's musical establishment, George Street, city,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At Wallerawang Court two men, John Agnew and Russell Lyne McKay, were each fined for the alleged careless use of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →England Found It Hard To Keep The Home Fires Burning LONDON, Februvary5
Half the homes in England this week end were without coal, or down to the last few scuttles. Many big factories are closing because of the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Between 4 o'clock yesterday morning and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon 40 firemen police, and volunteers fought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Causes Damage in Kitchen
A fire which broke out in the kitchen of a house at 140 Hebbard Street yesterday afternoon was extinguished with a garden hose by…
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The Premier (Mr. Mair) reiterated last night that the carelessness of tourists caused many recent bushfires. He said that in lighting…
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Three men were almost trapped by a bushfire in a valley at Ilford, in the Lithgow district. They saved themselves by scrambling 200 yards up a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plane Fire In Pictures
GRAPHIC PICTURES taken after the landing of the air liner Bungana at Dimboola (Victoria) following a desperate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Bushfire Near Wagga Sydney
Twenty bushfire brigades, and many volunteer fire fighters, including a squad of police, last night fought a fire in valuable grass and timber…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Damage estimated at nearly £20,000 was caused by a fire at the pithead of the Glebe colliery at Merewether, near…
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An appeal for travelling motorists and campers to exercise greater care with matches and cigarettes when passing through station properties was made today hy Mr. J. Pedroja, of Horse Lake Station. The appeal follows the outbreak of a bushfire on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Censorship Under Fire Full Inquiry To Be Made SYDNEY
THE War Cabinet, which met In Sydney yesterday, was expected to make a complete investigation into the manner in which the arrival of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfires in the Harvey Ranges Sydney
A message from Parkes states that a lerce bushfire has been raging since Monday in the Harvey Ranges. It has now assumed a 10-mile front,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vic. Bushfires Raze Pasture Lands
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Bushfires are threatening towns in the northeast of Victoria, namely Sandy Creek, Noorongong, Callandoon, and Bolga…
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Last Friday a bush fire started on Mr. J. Parrington's property Bulla Park at about 11.30 a.m. Fire fighters from the surrounding…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— Many volunteers were called to aid police and firemen in fighting bushfires which broke out at North Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Sweeps Stations Wilcannia Area Suffers
SEVEN thousand acres, of grass country and 161 fencing posts were burnt in a huge fire which swept part of Bulla, Park, Nelyambo and…
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