Thousand Men Fighting Vic.bushfire Melbourne
Severe bush and grass fires continued yesterday in various parts of the State. Only a few miles from Tangil Bren, which was burnt out…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
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Trains Said To Have Caused Grass Fires
The general,opinion in Ivanhoe is that several grass fires which have occurred there this summer have been caused by trains…
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Flames fed by more than 3000 gallons of petrol leaped high during a blaze which threatened portion of the plant of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage to Liner Fire on Queen Elizabeth London, February 21
SLIGHT damage was done to giant Cunard White Star liner Queen Elizabeth (85,000 tons) by a fire last night…
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Although fires seldom follow motor collisions, there is the hazard of petrol being ignited in the event of a bad smash, thereby endangering the life…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News In Brief Elderly Couple Trapped in Fire
MELBOURNE, Friday— When an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Alec Woodman, were trapped in a fire between Parkesville and Balranald, they…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday—Destruction by fire of a large Public Works Department store at Wairoa caused £20,000 damage. Employees…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →People Escape Bushfire By Sitting In Sea
SYDNEY, Saturday—Five cottages and a general store were burnt when bushfires swept through Tathra, a pleasure resort 11 miles from Bega…
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BATHURST, Monday— More than 100 men today succeeded in getting control of a fire which broke out yesterday on the property of Mrs. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Killed While Fighting Fire Katoomba District Suffers SYDNEY
TWO hundred firemen, policemen, and civilians fought two bushfires in the Katoomba district last night. Hundreds of acres of scrub…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Found In Midst Of Bushfire With Throat Cut
LEETON, Wednesday.—With his throat cut and a deep wound on the left wrist, Arthur Herbert Wilsor (29) was found in a fiercely burning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local and General Wilcannia Bush Fire Brigade
The Hen. Secretary. Mr J Buck, acknowledges the undermentioned sams since last publication.—Previously acknowledged 27 7 0…
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Smoke in the vicinity of Davies Motors, Oxide Street, was responsible for a call being put through to the Central Fire Station at 2.10 p.m…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A man was shot as he ran from the scene of a fire in the partly constructed ballroom at Luna Park, Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fierce Fires in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Many homes and mills were threatened by fierce fires which burnt heavily through timbered country yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Miner Friday, March 15, 1940. Bush Fires
SWEEPING over Bouthern and central Australia yesterday. the long awaited cool change ended one of the severest March heat waves on…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—More than 1000 men assisted the Katoomba and Leura Fire Brigades last night in a successful right against a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hotel Fire Begins With Explosion SYDNEY
AFTER a loud explosion a fire broke out last night in the Ivanhoe Hotel, Blackheath, and destroyed a greater part of the premises…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Damage estimated at about £3000 was caused by a fire which destroyed part of a shed, about 120 tons of oaten hay,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires in Victoria Economic Structure Threatened MELBOURNE
THE chairman of the Forests Commission (Mr. Galbraith) said today that if bushfires, such as had been experienced in the past two years…
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