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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
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A RUSSIAN division on the Salla front is hastily throwing up fortifications at Markajarvi, and the Finns are attacking their front and Flank in the hope of annihilating them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MUNDUBBERA, Monday:— A man, lying on a cane chair with the smouldering end of a cigarette between the fingers of his left…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hampered by poor water pressure and a strong south-easterly wind, firemen had a difficult task in preventing flames from a bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →TWELVE Italian sea-planes, five Italian liners, two French warships and one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Tuesday:—A volunteer was killed, two houses were destroyed and other properties were saved only by the desperate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire lighting need not be irksome. To get a fire going quickly does not mean you need a tremendous lot of sticks or fire lighters. Here is the way…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Wednesday:—Serious bush-fires continue to rage over a wide area of the State. Sydney was almost encircled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENOA. Wednesday:—Preliminary investigation reveals that the Orazio fire started after a series of explosions in the port motor. Members of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday:—The Paris radio says that a fire which lasted for 36 hours at the Max Huete steelworks in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Only the timely arrival of the fire brigade saved a number of homes from destruction by a scrub fire at Guildford to-day. More than 60…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Paris radio announced to-night that a 36-hour fire which broke out in the Maxhuete steel works in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EDEN CREEK: "Bomber" Akers had a miraculous escape from serious injury yesterday afternoon when the lorry he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. John Mazzer's home at Dungay was burned to the ground on Wednesday night during Mr. Mazzer's absence in Lismore. The fire, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A large heap Of dry grass on the bank of Leycester Creek, at the foot of Simmons-street, North Lismore, caught alight yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bushfires threatened an ammunition dump at Liverpool to-day, and hundreds of soldiers helped the Liverpool Brigade to fight the outbreak with…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Damage to the extent of £10,000 was caused at Bowraville early this morning when the theatre, council chambers and three shops…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The third fire in Lismore in three days occurred yesterday afternoon when the Fire Brigade was called to the residence of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Nominations for the election of members of the Beard of Fire Commissioners, which closed at noon yesterday, were announced last night by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Damage estimated at £8000 was caused by a fire which almost completely destroyed the premises of Brown's Tyre Service, in Granville…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GRAFTON, Friday:— Damage totalling £10,000 was caused at Bowraville early this morning when a theatre and council cham-…
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