Clothing Etc. for Bush Fire Suffepers
Mrs. J. P. Leahy reports a satisfactory response to the C.W.A. appeal for clothing for useful articles to be forwarded for the benefit of sufferers…
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Poignant Bush Fire Scenes at Corryong and Walwa
Top Left: A familiar scene in Walwa at the height of the fire. Families had their belongings packed tot leave at a moment’s notice if the flames invaded the town…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Corowa Charity Club Will Help Bush Fire Sufferers
Mr. R. Thompson will act temporarily as secretary of the above club in Corowa, for the purpose of organising a Community Singing night. in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Bush Fires Sixty-four Now Dead Two-thirds of State Affected
Victoria's greatest bush fires in history were whipped into fury on Friday by the scorching northerly winds accompanied by the highest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Relieve Bush Fire Sufferers Relief Fund Opened in Corowa
In common with many other places Corowa people extend their sympathy to the many sufferers from bush fires in various paris of the States, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tumbarumba Fires Under Control Light Rain Helps
The fires which have been seriously threatening Tumbarumba are now well under control, and light rain, which fell steadily throughout yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grass Fire at Corowa
On Friday afternoon about 6 p.m. the fire siren was sounded, there having been an outbreak of fire in the old police paddock near the second…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Olive Street House
Shortly before 11 o’clock yesterday morning, the Albury Fire Brigade was called to a fire which had broken out in a room behind a house…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Albury Helps the Fire Victims
Bush, grass and forest fires have struck again, and 66 people in Victoria, in addition to a smaller number in N.S.W., from, infancy to old age, are dead. Every summer brings its fires, but it is doubtful if any visitation in the history of Australia was so: destructive of human and animal life…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two More Fire Victims Melbourne
Another victim was added to the list of bush fire deaths to-day, when William House, aged 50. who was trapped by a fire at Drummond on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fearful Fires Victoria's Awful Experience. Death Roll, 66 MELBOURNE, Monday Night
The death-roll in the most disastrous bush fires ever known in Victoria is now 66. This includes 38 more victims reported since Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Swelters. Record Shade Heat. Fires in Suburban Areas. SYDNEY, Monday Night
Sy dney experienced its all-time heat record on Saturday, when the official temperature went to 113.6, but a cool change came before dark…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Upper Murray Fires Satisfactory Position at Walwa Another Wind Storm Is Only Fear
Reports from Walwa yesterday indicated that the bush fire position there was very satisfactory. Only one danger zone appeared to exist—a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prevention Talk Now Suggestions by Minister “Most Fires Start on Crown Lands” Canberra
The transfer of the control of bush fire [?] from the Lands Department [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smoke From Fires in Australia Blown Across to N.Z. Wellington (N.z.)
Smoke from the Australian bush fires has blown across the Tasman Sea and is particularly noticeable in the [?]castal districts. Gales swept through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Will Give Aid to Fire Victims Sydney
Memorand[?] indicating the chacter and extent of the damage cause[?] by the bush fires in N.S.W. and the basis upon which assistance could be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Hotel Destroyer. Fire at Tallimba. West Wyalong
The Tallimba Hotel, at Tallimba, was completely destroyed by fire, yesterday morning. The guests escaped in their night attire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Raw Follows Fires Wimmera’s Heavy Falls End of Drought May Be Near Melbourne
Very heavy rain fell in the Wimmera last night and this morning, when almost every district benefited to some extent. Excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Most Fires Will Be Under Control To-day” Man Missing at Hotham Heights Reported Safe Melbourne
The Forestry Commission reported at midnight that the position was easier in all areas where fires were still burning. Given a continuance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appalling Fire Tragedy 16 Men Trapped at Fitzpatrick’s Mill [?]Everal Ex-deniliquin Residents Die
The tragedy of the appalling loss of life in the most disastrous bush [?]res which have ever swept Victoria extended to the Deniliquin district [?] Saturday with the news that 15 of 16 men at Mr. James Fitzpatrickâs [?]wmill at Matlock, in the Warburton district, had perished when the…
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