Radio's Part in Fighting Bushfires Melbourne
Several experimental wireless sets, capable of being carried on the back of a forest officer while on duty, are on their way to the Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1939
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 44
Bushfire Victim Is Police Belief; Skeleton Found GOSFORD
Attracted by the barking of his dog, Mr. K. B. Chapman, of McMaster's Beach, late last night found the skeleton of a man lying in the bush about…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bush Fires
Sir,—Perhaps during the last fortnight the danger, tragedy and lose caused by bush fires have revealed to the city resident the lot of the people on the land…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Stop Bush Fires National Conference is Suggested CANBERRA
A recommendation that the Commonwealth Government should place a suggestion before the States for a national conference of appropriate authorities to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Suddenness of War "Something Like Bush Fires," Says Mr. Hughes ORANGE
"No one could tell in the week before the bush fires that their menace was upon us." said the Minister in charge of Recruiting (Mr. W. M. Hughes) at a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →£25,000 BLAZE Sydney Furniture Factory Firemen's Hopeless Task Sydney
More than 90 men, who were working in the furniture factory of Charles Dickinson, Ltd., at Leichhardt—One of the largest in Sydney—had to run for their…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Destroys Launch Man and Son Escape in Dinghy BRISBANE
A 35ft, launch, valued at £500, was destroyed by fire to-day. The owner Charles Jarvis, and his son, Henry Jarvis, were on a trip to Moreton Bay. When…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seek State Help Poultry Farmers Want £20,000 Loss by Fire and Heat Sydney
Poultry farmers were left in a desperate plight by the loss of up to 50 per cent. of their stock and much property during the recent heat wave and fire outbreaks, the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Big Bushfires in New Zealand Auckland
The most serious bushfires that New Zealand has had for many years have broken out on the east coast of the North Island…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →English Fund Mooted for Australian Bush Fire Victims London
"Our primary duty is to our kith and kin." writes Lord Stradbroke, a former Governor of Victoria, to "The Times." in support of the suggestion…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Worst in Years New Zealand Bush Fires Property Damage Heavy Wellington (N.z.)
Bush fires which have broken out on the East Coast of the North Island are the most serious New Zealand has experienced for years. Much damage has been done…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire-fighter Compensated for Burnt Hat Grafton
Something new in compensation claims was before Nymboida Shire Council meeting. W. Haupt, of Grafton, rained his hat…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Radio Sets Burnt South Grafton Fire GRAFTON
Damage estimated at several hundreds of pounds was caused by a fire which completely destroyed a store-room in Skinner-street, South Grafton, this…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Fire Amidst the Ice (Aboard Motorship Wyatt Earp) December 13
PERIL by fire struck the motor-ship, Wyatt Earp, in the midst of the Antarctic drift-ice. During the last neck, the pack about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Steel Works Coal Conveyor Was Destroyed Damage Estimated at £10,000
Fire wrecked an enclosed coal conveyor, 500 feet long, at the works of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. early on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New Zealand Bush Fires Family's Efforts to Save Valuables Wellington (N.z.)
While a bush fire roared towards their homestead at Matawai, the McLean family worked strenuously to save their belongings, digging a huge, pit in which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bush Fire Victims Move to Open English Fund LONDON, January 21
"Our primary duty is to our kith and kin," writes Lord Stradbroke, a former Governor of Victoria, to "The Times," in support of the suggestion that a British…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the Path of the Bush Fires
A farmhouse in the Lisarow district which was reduced to a tangled mass of blackened galvanised iron by the fires that raged on January 14…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aid for Bush Fire Victims Government to Distribute Fund Sydney Collections Sydney
The State Government will be asked to accept responsibility for distributing money collected for the Lord Mayor's New South Wales bush fire disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Risks That Can Be Avoided
Not a great number of motor vehicles, catch fire nowadays, but the N.R.M.A. technical department points out that the risk of fire can be added…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →