Bush Fires. Smoke and Heat Unbearable
Half the countryside appears to be on fire during the last few days. Mr. A. P. Gillogly and his assistant on the dairy farm on the Strathcedar Road…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
131 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 7
Wide Spread Fires Many Localities Ravaged
Within the past week many parts of our district have suffered from bush fires and reports of wonderful saves in property are to hand. At…
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In the heat wave of the week-end many bushfires were reported in the Dungog, Builahdelah and Wingham districts. For one blaze at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How to Handle Fire Bombs
A new set of instructions on how to deal with incendiary bombs was issued last week by the Minister for N.E.S. (Mr. Heffron). These…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wingham Volunteer Fire Brigade. Ordinary Meeting
The ordinary meeting of members of the above was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. H. Worthing on Wednesday night, 7th January, 1942…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bridges Burnt Out
The N.R.M.A. touring department reports that two bridges have been burnt out between Booral and Bukshdelah on the road to Taree, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peat Fire Near Ballina
Hundreds of acres of valuable swamp grazing lands have been burned out at Newrybar, near Ballina. The fire originated in slow burning beat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brisbane Fire Three Firemen Perish Brisbane
While fighting a fierce blaze, which destroyed a three-storey grocery ware-house in Turbot Street, Brisbane, early to-day, three firemen were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How to Handle Fire Bombs
A new set of instructions on how to deal with incendiary bombs has been issued by the Minister for N.E.S. (Mr. Heffron). These instructions cover the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires in Dungog District
Bush fires (states Dungog "Chronicle") have done considerable damage to culverts and bridges in Stroud and Wallarobba Shires and to bridges…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Merely a Rubbish Fire
This morning residents of West Kempsey in the vicinity of the recently subdivided Hostel estate, and those living on the high ground at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£80,000 Fire Sabotage Suspected
Sabotage is suspected as responsible for a fire that destroyed £80,000 worth of national emergency stocks at an army warehouse in Brisbane on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dungog Fires
The recent bushfires in the Wallarobba and Stroud Shires did considerable damage to bridges and culverts, and telephonic communication…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires
Speaking over the National Network, the chairman of the Bush Fires Advisory Committed (Mr. H. E. Messer) said that the goal of the committee was a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prevent Bush Fires!
Speaking over the National network, the Chairman of the Bush Fires Advisory Committee (Mr. H. E. Messor) said that the goal of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Incendiary Bomb and Fires
Water can be used on an incendiary bomb only in a fine spray. If too much water is thrown on to a bomb it will cause such a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Raging for Sixty Years
The world's biggest blaze isn't in Europe. It is still burning at New Straitsville, Ohio, in the heart of one of the richest Industrial regions in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Document Photography Saving Valuable Records From Fire Bombs
Destruction of valuable records by fire, normally a negligible business risk, became a serious menace in Britain during the ordeal by fire from the air. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wingham Volunteer Fire Brigade. Monthly Meeting
The usual monthly meeting of the above was held at the residence of Mr. c. A. H. Worthing on Wednesday night, 21st January, 1942…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade Inspection
Recently Inspector Parks of the N.S.W. Fire Brigade, visited Kempsey and was met by Mr. A. B. Lake, captain of the local brigade. After a tour…
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