Crops Destroyed Wallangarra Bush Fires BRISBANE
Hot weather in the interior caused serious bush fires in the Wallangurra district, where the whole of Bald Mountain is enveloped…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1932
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S. Australian Bush Fire Adelaide
A big fire is sweeping through heavy scrub country in the Broughton River district, and several homesteads are threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Bush Fire Three Towns in Danger Alarm in Victoria Melbourne
It was reported this afternoon that a big bush fire was burning on a 15-mile front between Running Creek and Towonga Valley in north-eastern Victoria. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£1500 DAMAGE Adelaide Store Fire ADELAIDE
A fierce fire last night in a bulk store owned by R. Gray caused damage estimated at £1500. Three horses were rescued from a stable after it had caught…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →University Fire Valuable Instruments Lost MELBOURNE
Valuable scientific instruments and records in the office, science rooms, and testing laboratories in the Metallography Department were destroyed in afire which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Everybody Thought It Was Fire Sydney
Melons and other garbage burning early this morning in the incinerator of a block of flats in Onslow-avenue, Potts Point, created an Illusion of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Rylands Operations Suspended Sub-station Outbreak
Operations at the works of Rylands Bros. (Australia), Ltd., Newcastle, have been practically suspended as the result of a fire in the electricity sub-station…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Race Acceptors For Saturday Cheaper Fire Rate Agitation At Cessnock Big Conference Held
Further efforts are being made at Cessnock to have the town, from a fire insurance point of view, reclassified so that property…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bush Fire-fighters Weather Change Welcome MELBOURNE
A welcome change in the weather brought much relief to bushfire sufferers and caused a lull in outbreaks in many Victorian districts to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Praised Work in Bush Fire Areas SYDNEY
The Secretary of the Unemployment Relief Council (Mr. C. Tye), who recently investigated outbreaks of fire in the western districts, pays a high tribute to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cessnock Town Fire Rate
The agitation for a reclassification of the town for fire insurance purposes has been renewed. The contention is that the town has all the qualifications to be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Nurses As Fire-fighters Students Make Perfume
GANDHI, Photographed on arrival in Italy on his recent tour. AS AN ADDED safeguard against fire, Dublin nurses are laught precautionary methods and regularly receive instruction in fire drill…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Arson Charge Melbourne Factory Fire "Firm Was Insolvent" Melbourne
Giving evidence at the coronial inquiry to-day into a fire which badly damaged the hat factory of Merchant and Company, Clifton Hill, on November 16, H…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lake Shire Toronto Fire Risk Reclassification Refused Bank Overdraft of £12,149
Those present at the meeting of the Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night were: The President (Cr. J. Johnston), and Crs. H. Richards, D. T. Johnston, G…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire on Wool Steamer at Wellington Full Speed to Port Radio Message Warned Port Firemen Cargo Ablazei Wellington N.Z.
Working in smoke helmets firemen fought all night a fire among the wool cargo of the steamer Port Fremantle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Menaces Cottages Sydney
Residents assisted the fire brigades in preventing a bush fire destroying three cottages in Marine-parade, Narrabeen, to-day. The task was made more difficult…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blaze at Waratah House Totally Destroyed Was Empty
Blazing furiously when the brigades arrived, a house in Chriatoe-road, Waratah, was burnt to the ground early…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murderous Maniac on Canadian Farm Family Stabbed House Set on Fire by Murderer Night Crime Winnipeg
Creeping into the home of Martin Slpar, at Elma, Manitoba, 50 miles from Winnipeg, an assassin fatally stabbed Slpar,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →121 DEGREES Queensland Heat Wave Fierce Bush Fires in West Brisbane
Intense heat in the interior caused fierce bush fires in the Mungindi district, where the thermometer reached 116 degrees. Fire swept 500 acres of dense scrub, leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Blaze
Fire destroyed a five-roomed cottage in Christoe-road, Waratah, early on Saturday. The alarm was given at 2.58 a.m., and…
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