Items of News Brigade Called to Rubbish Tip Fire
At 12.20 p.m. yesterday the fire brigade was called to extinguish a fire which had started, in shavings at the North Albury rubbish tip. Last…
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Farmer Caught in Circle of Fire i[?] Wheat Paddock
Trapped in a circle of blazing wheat, J. Stinson, a farmer, of Beckom, near Ardlethan, was severely burnt about the legs when he dashed through the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Airliner Destroyed Fire After Landing Two Soldiers Injured Darwin
In making a forced fending half a mile from the Darwin aerodrome to-day, the Guinea Airways Lockheed Electra airliner, Moresby, struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Brigades in Holbrook District
District Bush Fire Brigades set out the following particulars, and asked Holbrook Shire Council yesterday for registration: Carabost, J. R…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Does Considerable Damage Sydney
A fire destroyed three floors of the building occupied by Henry Foggan, auctioneer, in the city early this morning. Forty firemen unavailingly tried…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Wool Cargo Not Sabotge Brisbane
Spontaneous combustion is believed to have caused the fire which broke out in a cargo of wool aboard a liner at Hamilton wharf last week. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Invalid Woman Trapped in Hotel Fire Rescued by Licensee and Workman Melbourne
When a fire broke out in the bar of Markillie’s Hotel, Glenferrie road. Malvern this afternoon, an invalid woman (Miss Lillian Wells) was helpless in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Some Advice on Their Prevention
With the approach of the Christmas and New Year holidays the Bush Fires Advisory Committee makes an earnest appeal to all p[?]rs,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Prevention In Conargo Shire
At Conargo Shire Council meeting yesterday the engineer (Mr. Fitznead) informed Cr. Carse that £89 had been spent this year on equipment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire on Nyangay
A fire broke out on Monday on the Nyangay property close to the Ramsay boundary, near Boorooban, and burned about 60 to 70 acres of country before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Preventing Bush Fires. Campaign Activities
Reports from country districts recently received by the Bush Fires Advisory. Committee and from field officers of the Rural Bank, indicate a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fire Hay Menace Valuable Property In Wagga District
A bash fire which broke out yesterday at Borambola Park, about 23 miles, from Wagga, will threaten some of the best property in N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tin Now Believed Dead in Hotel Fire Brisbane
Ten persons are now believed to have perished in the fire which destroyed the Grand Hotel at Goomeri on Saturday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fire on Poole’s Hill
Albury Fire Brigade, co-operating with a number of civilians, put out a grass fire, which broke out on Poole’s Hill shortly before 11.30 o’clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nine Now Known to Be Dead in Hotel Fire Brisbane
The remains of nine persons have been found in fee ashes of the fire which destroyed the Grand Hotel, Goomeri (in the Murgon district), on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boys Blamed for Fire Attempt at School Tell-tale Footprints Sydney
Police believe that the attempt to burn down St. Peters Public School yesterday was the work of a gang of boys, who apparently broke into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bag Home Fire Second Child Dies Father in Critical Condition
John Ralph Clark, aged 10 years, another of the children of the Beechworth prospector whose home was burned down at Yellow Creek, died…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Third Child Victim of Beechworth Fire Dies
The tragic bag-hut fire near Beechworth on Tuesday claimed its third child victim yesterday, when Evelyn Martha Clark, aged…
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Nine persons were burned to death, and a number of others injured when the Grand Hotel at Goomeri, a small i town 173 miles north-west of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World Says Good-bye to an Eventful Year Worst Fears of People Realised War Came After Months of Tension Hitler Made Front Page News Drought and Tragic Bush Fires Passing of Pope Pius XI and Mr. Lyons ("Mail" Special)
Before the "Mail" is published again, 1939—momentous in our history—will have passed. In the progressive march of events few of us realise just how momentous the year has been…
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