Thousands of Volunteers Fight Fires
SYDNEY, Sunday:—The Governor (Lord Wakehurst) assisted fire-fighters to attack raging bushfires at most important station…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
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Big Brisbane Fire
BRISBANE, Sunday: — Damage amounting to thousands of pounds was caused by a fire which seriously damaged the large furniture…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfires at Many Centres Wide Heat Wave SYDNEY
A dense pall of smoke hung ever almost the whole of the State to-day, when heat wave conditions again caused numerous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Bush Fires Yass District Ravaged
SYDNEY, Monday:—Bush fires which swept through the Yass district on Sunday and to-day burnt out thousands of acres, destroyed…
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Many homes, numbers of sheep, horses and cattle and miles of grass land have been laid waste by bush fires raging in the Yass…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£6000 Blaze at Nanango Hotel and Eight Shops Destroyed
NANANGO, Monday:—Damage estimated at £6000 was done to-night by the biggest fire in the town's history. The Commercial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Home Nearly Razed by Fire Caretaker Away Fighting Bushfires BOWRAL
The residence at Bowral of the late Dr. W. S. Ziele (who died after a motor car accident some months ago), was practically destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cannon to Fire 117 Miles
The largest cannon the world has aver known is being perfected by by French military experts. Described as an electro-magnetic gun, it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Brisbane Fire Brisbane
Thousands of pound worth of damage was done by a fire which destroyed the four-storied furniture manufacturing establishment of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£10,000 Fire Damage at Bowraville
BOWRAVILLE: Fire caused £10,000 damage at Bowraville on Friday, when a theatre, the Nambucca Shire Council Chambers,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday:—Many big bush-fires are still burning in New South Wales but most of them are under control…
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Police to-day commenced inquiries into the cause of a fire in the sugar elevator at the Colonial Sugar Refining Company's works at Pyrmont…
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Although the fires in the Yass district were reported to be under control to-day, hundreds of men were out watching the…
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Responsible representatives of the Farmers' and Graziers' Association to-day denied the assertion made that farmiers, thorough carelessness, were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →£60,000 Damage in Brisbane Fire
BRISBANE.--Damage, of at least £60,000 was caused by a fire which swept the four-storied warehouse of Carricks Ltd., in Saul-Street, city,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Home Gutted in Fire at Midnight
Thought to have originated in the kitchen, a fire at midnight last night destroyed the six-roomed home of Mr. J. Keen, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Brigade Picnic
Arrangements for the first Mullumbimby Fire Brigade picnic for some years were made at a meeting on Thursday night. The event, which in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire and Explosions in Germany
LONDON, Friday:—A message from Basle (Switzerland) states that a loud explosion was heard in German…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Killed When Sentry Fires at Vehicle
BRISBANE, Sunday: — Peter Dawson, a young man, was fatally wounded yesterday when a sentry fired a shot after a delivery van…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£50,000 Fire Sydney
The damage is estimated at £120,000. The whole of the building was gutted. The only undamaged article was a safe which contained valuable papers…
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