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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
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Lilyvale Station, 70 miles west or Cobar, on the Wilcannia-road, was swept by fire. The owner had his sheep on one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Although the debris is still smouldering, the fire, which swept through the main business centre at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SPEAR-HEAD OF RUNNING FLAME photographed from "The Sun" 'plane 8000 feel above Nymagee (large picture). Circle: Culling a fire-break through the tail gran in the fire's track…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In this map, the far west and Federal Territory bush fire areas are shown by shading. Areas from which stock losses have been reported are shown in black. Inset: Stations around Cobar where tho fires are fiercest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Many of the huge bush fires have now assumed such alarming proportions that volunteers have been forced to give up trying to keep them in check…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spell-oh for bush fire-fighters on a station near Cobar…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire which almost completely destroyed a six-roomed weatherboard cottage in Jersey-avenue, Penshurst, last night, is being investigated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Firemen succeeded about 3 o'clock this morning in extinguishing the fire which swept through the business centre of Parkes. The water supply was cut off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a 70-mile-an-hour chase along King-street Newtown, this afternoon the police fired four shots at two youths on stolen motor cycles. No one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A complaint was made to the East Maitland Municipal Council last night by the Manager of Fernwood Colliery (Mr. R. J. Thompson) about the depositing of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Condonnerie Station, 28 miles from Cobar.—Fire-fighters returning to the attack after a brief rest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Except for a possibility of scattered (hundershowers in the fire-infected areas, following a cool change expected to reach there to-morrow, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Following a series of 10 mysterious bush fires in the Riverton district, police aid has been invoked by farmers and residents, who held a meeting yesterday to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The great bush fires raging in the Far West how no signs of contraction, despite desperate efforts on the part of a large number of fire-fighters to get the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Compelled to retire, owing to sheer exhaustion, many of the fire-fighters, who have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Menindle, two car loads of fire fighters, numbering 12 men, were trupped in between two fires, but, by setting alight to the grass,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rain is badly needed in many Victorian districts to put an effective check on bush fires which threaten to destroy property and valuable timber country. Fires were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →While many of the fires in the areas nearest to Cobar have completely spent themselves, and other are slowly dying, fresh fears were aroused by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four buildings constructed of weather-board were destroyed by fire early this morning. The outbreak originated in Holdstock's bakery. Within a few…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Following a change in the direction of the wind yesterday, the fire-fighters were able to gain control of the numerous bush fires in the Victorian timber areas. It was…
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