Bush Fire Claims Large Amounts Expected SYDNEY
Hush files claims, amounting to £163,000 have already been received by members of the fire Accident Underwriter's Association in New…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
416 stories in New England's papers · page 8 of 21
Bush Fire Losses Impossible to Estimate Total Heavy Claims Lodged SVDNEV
Bush Urn claims amounting to £108,000 have already been received by members of the Fire, Accident and Underwriters'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kentucky Fire Residence Destroyed Original Building On Settlement
A four-roomed weatherboard cottage, owned by Mr. C. Colless, and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Whitby, was destroyed by fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bullet in Fire Woman Injured BALLINA
A bullet which had been gathered up in some rubbish and thrown into the fire exploded and wounded Mrs. A. T. Glen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Fire £25,000 Damage MELBOURNE
[?] of the Blackburn coal [?] Blac[?] were des[?] [?] morning doing com[?] [?] £25,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cabin Lamp Causes Fire
Driving on to the Brake Sands off Deal with its cabin in flames, the sailing barge Pudge, of the London-Rochester Trading Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Spent His Penny on Fire Call
Given a penny to buy sweets, Derek Pitman, an eight-year-old Wolf Cub, spent it on a tram journey to the fire station to give the alarm of fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Producers' Problems City Sentiments Local Industries Land Hunger Bush Fires and Wax Matches
A tremendous lot of rot is talked, especially in the towns and cities, about the danger of wax matches as being a great cause of bush fires. Wax…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Floods After Fires Motorists Held Up Fire Victims Flooded Out MELBOURNE
Menaced by bush fices a month age, portions of Victoria are now fearing floods as the rivers are rising rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Inverell Fire Brigade Visit to Katoomba
Members of the Inverell Fire Brigade wish to acknowledge, with many thanks, the following donations towards the cost of their visit to take…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Share Farmer Charged. Failed to Extinguish Fire
At Moree Police Court, before Mr. V. H. Wells, P.M., Ernest Croft, a share farmer, was found guilty on a charge of leaving a fire in the open…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Red Cross Helps Bush Fire Sufferers
On Thursday last two large cartons of clothing (1 cwt.) were forwarded to Red Cross headquarters for distribution to bush fire sufferers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flower Show Attracts Hundreds of Visitors Town Hall a Blaze of Color Gardeners Triumph Over Dry Season
There was an amazing array of fine blooms at the 21st annual flower show of the Glen Innes Horticultural Society, held in the Glen Innes Town Hall on Saturday afternoon and night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Seven 'Planes Destroyed in Fire Damage Estimated at £50,000 MELBOURNE
A fire which broke out in the hangar of Ansett Airways Pty. Ltd., at Essendon Aerodrome early this morning, destroyed seven…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Mystery Man Burned To Death In New Zealand Developments Expected Insurance Companies And Police Co-operate SYDNEY
Sensational developments are expected from police inquiries into the reported death in New Zealand, on February…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newspaper Building Destroyed By Fire SYDNEY
Fire last night completely destroyed the old "Advertiser" newspaper building at Parramatta, used by the "Cumberland Argus" as a storeroom…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Halifax Fire Landmark Destroyed Halifax (N.s.)
A fire coupled with a 26 m.p.h wind destroyed an old landmark, the Queen's Hotel, and two other buildings, and damaged a fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parramatta Fire £5000 Damage to Newspaper Office SYDNEY
A fire last night completely destroyed the old Advertiser newspaper building at Parramtta used by the Cumperland Argus as a storeroom…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.Z. Fire Mystery Police Communicate With California AUCKLAND
New Zealand police have communicated with authorities in California requesting them to endeavour to interview a man who left Auckland for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Fire Twenty-one Dead Damage £60,000 Halifax Nora Scotia Thurs
A fire, coupled with a 26-mile wind, destroyed an old landmark, the Queen's Hotel and two other buildings, and damaged a fourth…
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