Victorian Bushfires
MELBOURNE.—Bushfires near Beechworth are under control with big breaks separating them from the town and no danger is…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
439 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 22
Thousand Fighters Beat Bushfire
MUDGEE. — After fighting a bushfire at Ben Buckley, between Yarrabin and Wellington. since Sunday afternoon, more than 1000…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Firefighters at Beechworth have the bush fires under control. Big breaks separate the fires from the town. There…
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Bushfire dangers are vividly represented in the Bushfire Exhibition which opened at Winn's Ltd., Newcastle, to-day…
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MELBOURNE.—Chief Tire Officer Lawrence made a four-hour flight over the bushfire area near Beechworth yesterday and was…
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LONDON, Jan. 13.—The Allied air raid on Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, on Tuesday, was the greatest so far against a single area in the Balkans,…
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Lloyd's and other leading non-tariff insurance organisations had for many years rated Newcastle an "A" five district, said Mr. L. B. Saddington,…
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Our unopposed advance on Tuesday from the line of the Buri River to Gneisenau Point has been one of the most surprising…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven Perish in Victorian Fires Homes Destroyed May Total 200
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Seven persons are known to have lost their lives in one of the worst days of the bush fires in Victoria. Because of the difficulty of communicating with many of the fire areas, only scanty details are available of the destruction caused…
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MELBOURNE.—Eighteen people have been burnt to death or reported missing in the bushfires. The death-roll is expected to mount rapidly, as many severely burnt people in hospital are not expected to recover…
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CANBERRA.—A special National Security Regulation was Issued by the Federal Government today conferring on the…
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THE sympathy of all other Australians will go out to those who have suffered in the bushfire disasters in Victoria and…
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JUNEE.—About 8000 sheep are believed to have been destroyed and between 12,000 and 20,000 acres of grass burnt by a…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The deathroll in the Victorian bush fires, now reported to be under control, has reached 18. At least 3000 people are homeless. Hospitals throughout Victoria are filled with the injured…
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LONDON, Jan. 16.—Swedish reports state that fires blazed in the German City of Brunswick all day yesterday, following the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—One person was killed. 11 injured and 20,000 acres of valuable grazing lands and many thousands of sheep and cattle have…
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MELBOURNE.—A revised estimate of the death roll of the bush fires in Victoria on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, is that 20 people have lost their lives and nearly 50 others are in hospital…
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The bush fires in Victoria, though they took a smaller roll of human life than the disastrous outbreaks of 1939, were widespread,…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—A Commonwealth grant of £200,000 is to be made available for relief of those who suffer losses through bush…
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WAGGA, Monday.—The fire which started at Bethungra on Saturday, and threatened Mutama village, was brought under…
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