The Bowraville Fire
The fire which destroyed Mr. T. Grant's barn at Bowraville last week, destroyed £700 worth of paspalum seed owned by Mr. F. H. Manusu. It…
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Fires & bushfires, 1921
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Bush Fires In the West
OWING to the phenomenal growth of herbage in the west, and the animals of eat it, bush fires will be much in evidence with the advent of the hot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires. Havoc in the West. 300-Mile Front
Never in the history of settlement in the Far West has the whole country been so menaced by bush fires as at present. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →500,000 Acres Burnt Out. Sydney
Unless good rain falls quickly all the grass lands in the country west of the Darling and Lachlan will be destroyed by fire. Five hundred thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Commissioners. Visit to Kempsey. Question of Site for New Station
The Mayor (Ald. H. C. Henderson), Aldermen N. E. Savage and W. O'Meara, Captain Lake and members of the Fire Brigade met the Hon. E…
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It is reported that a returned soldier has been burnt to death at Cardiebig, in the western district while trying to save his wife and…
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The past few hot days that brought an unearned perspiration to the brow of coastal folk, have proved a fairsized inferno to the settlers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Commissioners Visit. Station Site Discussed
Three members of the New South Wales Loard of Fire Commissioners visited Kempsey on Monday last, and met Mayor Henderson, Akin. W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Drigade Board. Visit of Commissioners
On Monday night Hon, E. H. Farrar, M.L.C., Ald. E. Collins (Wagga), and Ald. W. Taylor (of the metropolitan area), representing the Board of Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires Quenched Good Rain in the West
The whole of the fire zone was drenched with rain on Friday night, and reports from several parts of the west state that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big City Fire. Explosion in Film Shop. Flame Bridges Park Street. Six shops gutted, Others Damaged
Following n terrific explosion in a film shop on Saturday, Park street, between Pitt and George streets, was bridged with flames…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heroic Father. Saves Child From Fire
Albert Roy Cox, a young returned soldier, living at Lachlan (Tas). put his two-year-old daughter to sleep and then left the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires in West
The west is now threatened with a repetition of the worst features of the great fires of about three weeks ago ; indeed, greater…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lightnings Mysteries. How Like Gun-fire
Speaking of the phenomenon of electric explosion, a strong flash of lightning causes a sudden expansion of the air immediately around it,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →News of the World. Commonwealth Liner on Fire. London
A fire on the Commonwealth liner Boorara, in hold six, which was full of copra, readied hold five before it was extinguished. The damage was very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£1,000,000 Damage. Sydney's Greatest Fire. P.F.A. Buildings Destroyed. £600,000 Worth of Wool. 5000 Lightless Homes. Sydney
The greatest fire in Sydney for many years occurred this morning, when the great store of the Pastoral Finance Association; full of wool, was, destroyed,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Careless Use of Fire
A CANE-GROWER named William Stokes was sued at Murwillumbah (N.S.W.) recently for damages caused by his careless use of fire. It was stated that be was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire. £850,000 Goes Up in Smoke
One of the biggest and most spectacular fires in Sydney for many years broke out on Kirribilli Point, Sydney, on Tuesday morning, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Fire at Macksville
A big fire occurred at Macksville at 1 a.m. this morning. A garage and three cars were burnt. The cars were the property of the War Wattle Co…
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