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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
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Harry Oleinikoff, 24, a chiropodist, appeared at the Central Court to-day, charged with having on January 7 entered the shop of Madame Josephine Pty. Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →About 1 p.m. yesterday an outbreak of fire among dried grass on vacant land adjacent to the Wallsend Methodist parsonage bad the attention of Wallsend Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eighteen more people were burned to death in Victorian bushfires to-day, bringing the total to 20 since the fires started. Seven were trapped in two cars as they raced along a blazing bush track. The bodies of six were found at dawn to-day. No hope is held for the seventh…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman and children sheltering in a dug-out at Monnett's mill. Victoria, after a night of terror. They were later brought to safety along at rack cut through burning logs, housed and given food…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An open verdict was returned by the Acting District Coroner for Cessnock (Mr. J. R. Scott) when he held an inquiry yesterday into a fire which destroyed a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Straight from the hose's mouth. The baby elephant at Taronga (Sydney), enjoys a drink served this fashion. during the present heat-wave. Colorful ensembles chosen by these sunbakers may have dimmed the glory of the sand and sea, but they certainly added a spice of gaiety…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Raging bushfires, caused by the greatest heat-wave for years, have destroyed many homes and are imperilling others in Victoria and South Australia. Mt. Torrens, 30 miles from Adelaide, has been burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After a lull of a month, Sydney to-day was again ringed with bush fires. A dozen calls had been answered by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A heat record was recorded in Gosford to-day when the shade temperature was officially stated to be 112 degrees. Bush fires raged throughout the Holgate and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Spectacular, bill terrifying light on the rood near Thornton (Victoria) before was afforded by this tree blazing like a to rch. Flying sparks made the tracery of fine white line. In the blazing forest at 3 a.m., searchers were halied by fierce flames barring their…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fires are still raging in many parts of Victoria. The Kiewa Valley is aflame from end to end now, and the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) took his place among firefighters when a scrub fire broke out near his home at Devonport to-day. His four daughters, a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Eighteen persons lost their lives in bush fires to-day. The death roll since the fires began is 20. At least 10 people are missing. A timber worker, his wife and child, with four men,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The death roll in Victorian bush fires is now 20. The dark areas show where damage was done at the week-end and the light areas where the fires caused havoc yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Twenty children, aged from 4 to 12, and 20 women, one aged 75, spent a night of terror in a potato patch while, a handful of men fought a branch of the Healesville West fire, which surrounded the Cascades guest…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bushfires are raging again in Hawkes Bay. A fierce gale fanned the flames near Kereru, and settlers stood by all night, but a chance in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A howling northerly gale to-day caused forest fires to break out afresh on the mountainside near Erica. Because of the danger of carriers being trapped, no more provisions were sent out to the mills…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Devastation of the fire fiend in the vicinity of Narbethong, in the Victorian Gippsland area. The township is adjacent to an extensive pine forest…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →This map shows widespread territory through which, the fire sco[?] is sweeping. Huge areas have been devastated in Victoria and fires are report[?] to have leapt the Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When East Maitland fire brigade was called yesterday to a grass fire on the side of the railway line between George and High Street overbridges, the…
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