Huge New Bush Fire
Disastrous losses were caused by a huge bush fire which broke out in the Ladysmith area at 1 p.m. yesterday…
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Huge Bush Fire Sweeps on to Jingellic
Smoke spiralled thousands of feet as yesterday’s disastrous fire at Holbrook swept towards Jingellic. It was this…
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CANBERRA, Fri.: Minister for the Interior (Mr. Kent Hughes) today set up a court of inquiry to investigate the outbreak today of one of the worst bush fires in Canberra’s history…
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Hundreds of fighters fought desperately at Walla again yesterday as farther fires raged through the district…
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Leaping hundreds of yards at a time, the fire charged towards Jingellic, behind Dora Dora. First property in this area to be devastated in this area to…
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Total of £57/13/ was subscribed at a meeting at Kergunyah last night to aid the destitute Crockett family, of Huon…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Disastrous bush fires flared up in many parts of N.S.W. today, destroying at least 56 homes, hundreds of sheep and cattle; huge areas of State forests, and thousands of acres of pastureland…
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OSLO, Fri.: The base used by a French scientific expedition in Adelie Land, in the French sector of the Antarctic, was burned down…
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Albury Fire Brigade had an “easy” day yesterday. There was only one small grass fire on Monument Hill, near Pemberton…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Fire today completely destroyed one of Melbourne’s most beautiful buildings, Wilson Hall, at the…
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Six brigades fought a four-hours battle between Springhurst and Chiltern, in the Chiltern Valley, yesterday, as fires…
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With unabated fury, the worst bush fire for eleven years swept through Holbrook district yesterday causing devastation estimated at half a million pounds, Racing over tree-tops and along pastures, flames trapped and incinerated thousands of sheep and…
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Constant contact was kept with a spotter plane which flew over the fire, Twenty-four-year-old Ron Franklin (above), of Canberra, takes a message from “Baker Charlie” ready to report to police in Holbrook. The air control station at Holbrook received and relayed messages from the plane throughout the day…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Chief Secretary (Mr. Olive Evatt) has prohibited the lighting of any fires in the open until February…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: A forestry official said tonight that a huge fire had broken out today in the Piliga West State forest, near…
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But for the assistance of rural brigades, a fire which broke out on a property near Albury Aerodrome on Saturday may…
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The holocaust which resulted from a small grass fire at Mangoplah on Tuesday has taken toll of two lives and devastated millions of pounds’ worth of rich pasture, over an area 80 miles long and 35 miles…
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Fires which were burning last night in the Cudgewa area may threaten the rich Tallangatta Valley if rain is not received. Strong northerly winds may sweep the blaze from the Bluff, the…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: Aftermath of the Victorian bushfires is setting in throughout fire-blackened outback areas of…
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WELLINGTON, Mon.: Smoke that drifted across the from bush fires in [?] mingled with the. smoke of…
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