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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires
168 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 9
Plans for the organisation of the civilian population to meet an emergency were outlined to-day at a conference of metropolitan local…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Hampton, the Chief Commissioner of Boy Scouts in England, in tracing the history of the Scout movement at a luncheon of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush fires yesterday afternoon destroyed 12 houses and four shops at Selby, and ten homes at Laver's Hill, Crowes and Wyelangta. A number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Not a great number of motor vehicles catch fire nowadays, but the N.R.M.A. technical department points out that the risk of fire can be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Half of King Island was swept by bush fires yesterday. At least eight homes and two schools were destroyed, thousands of acres of grazing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage estimated at £6000 was caused at Walgett this morning in a fire which gutted a block of three shops. A cafe proprietor, Jim Papas,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News of further damage due to bushfires in Victoria reached Melbourne this, morning. In the Otway and Beech Forest districts a service…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The value of motor cyclists in maintaining efficient communications in time of emergency was strikingly demonstrated during the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The story of a heroic fight put up by a lone woman to save her home and four-months-old baby from raging bush fires is told by the Telegraph Point…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bush Fires Advisory Committee which was formed in 1937 has been very active in bringing before the notice of the general public the particular…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Almost in the same breath of news that tells us that 1000 much million feet of millable timber and four million acres of State forests were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the above was held at the residence of Mr. A. Worthing, on Tuesday night last, January 31. Owing to the absence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The local branch of the Red Cross Society has opened a depot at Lacey's Garage, at which donations of used or new clothing for the victims of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The tragic results of the recent bush fires, particularly in Victoria, have made it clear that there must be a wide re-organisation of existing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The house at "Clarefield," Rollands Plains, occupied by Mr. C. Middlebrook, was burned down early last Friday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fitfy-seven houses were destroyed by bush fires in Victoria, which occurred on Monday, but with a change of wind at night there was not much…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire caused £100,000 damage in Wellington early on Thursday morning when it destroyed or damaged 30 to 40 buildings, including the new…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A demonstration of the methods used to fight bushfires, in which over 600 men from all parts of the State will participate, will take place at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A demonstration of the methods used to fight bushfires, in which over 600 men from all parts of the State will participate, will take place…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A demonstration of the methods used to fight bushfires, in which over 600 men from all parts of the State wilt participate, will take place at…
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