Wodonga’s Fire’ Swimming Pool
Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 6
Wodonga has a fine swimming pool in the Wodonga creek. Recently it was out and is now [?] ideal spot for the hot days. Top: General view of the pool, showing springboard with a swimmer about to take the plunge. Lower Left: A mud fight in progress…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fierce Fires Near Jenolan Caves SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 3
Large bush Ares broke out on McEwen’s Creek, near Jenolan Caves, yesterday afternoon and Kinor[?] Guest House five miles from the caves was razed to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dread of Bush Fires
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 2
A bush fire broke out on the pro[?]erty of Mr. George Cheshire, Burrowye, and driven by a strong wind, soon spread to the hill country, where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Burning Fiercely SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 5
Fanned by a strong wind, bush fires in the Jenotan Caves area arc Still burning fiercely, and this afternoon the flames were about half a mile from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fewer Fires
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 2
Albury Fire Brigade has been having a very quiet time lately, the last month having been the most fire-free December for eight years. Albury was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Wodonga West
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 2
A particularly devastating fire occurred at Wodonga West early on Tuesday night, a four-roomed cottage, the property of Capt. T.. Jones, being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telephone Exchanges And Bush-fire Fighting
The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 3
Representations recently were made by the Graziers' Association of Victoria emphasising the necessity for the officer-in-charge of small country…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Outbreak of Fire
The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 1
At about 3.45 o'clock yesterday afternoon an outbreak of fire occurred in a vacant allotment next to the home of Mr. W. Cupit, Wood street. A fence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Chiefs Declared "Black" Brisbane
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 2
At a mass meeting held last night of Brisbane firemen, two brigade officers were claimed by a resolution to have been guilty of negligence at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Near Balldale House Destroyed £44 in Notes Lost
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 2
One of the most unfortunate features of afire which destroyed a house on Mr. Paddy Ryan's property at Morebringe[?] near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£80,000 Fire in Brisbane Inquiry Into Firemen's Deaths
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 3
On Tuesday three firemen lost their lives flighting a fire which burnt our the three-storey grocery warehouse of R. M. Gow & Co. Pty. Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Fire-proof Countryside Urged by Bush Fires Advisory Committee
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 January 1942 · page 3
The Chairman of the Bush Fires Advisory Committee (Mr. H. E. Messor) states that the goal of the Committee is a fire-proof…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Store Destroyed by Fire
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 January 1942 · page 4
Mr. H. White’s general store at Moulamein, with the whole of its contents, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on Ship Fought Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 January 1942 · page 4
Fire larigades successfully fought a fire in the roal bunkers of a steamer at an Australion port to-day . The fire was detected early this afternoon and the ship’s officers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Praise for Fire Fighters (To the Editor)
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 January 1942 · page 5
Sir.—As captain of the [?] Fire [?] I take opportunity on behalf of the brigade to [?] our [?] at the very [?] in which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Dead in Apartment Fire Lynn (Mass.), Jan. 21
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 4
A disastrous fire, which raged throughout the night, destroyed a large apartment building. Five dead have been identified, 28 are still missing and 27 have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Items of News Fire Brigade Oct
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 January 1942 · page 2
The-fire brigade received a call about o’clock yesterdays afternoon to a Are in the kitchen of a weatherboard cottage in Day street, Albury West,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire at Moulamein White's Stores Completely Destroyed
Riverina Recorder · Saturday 24 January 1942 · page 3
While the big dust-storm was at its height on Monday afternoon, the general store of Mr. Hurry White, situated in Nyang and Barrata Streets…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →13 Railway Trucks Destroyed by Fire Goulburn
Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 3
A cigarette butt dropped in a horsebox used to bring horses to Goulburn for the big Anniversary trotting gala is believed to have caused a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Volunteer Fire Fighter Dies Prom Burns Ivtelbouene
Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 January 1942 · page 3
Allan John Ditch burn, aged 43, chemist, of Main st.., Bacchus Marsh, received fatal burns when, as a volunteer fire fighter, he was out with over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →