Bad Victorian Fires. Death Roll 13, Many Shelter on Beaches
MELBOURNE, Friday: An unconfirmed death roll of 13 was reported late to-night following an outbreak of bushfires…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
328 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 17
Devastating Fire On Riverina
SYDNEY, Sunday: One person was killed and 1.1 injured when 20,000 acres of valuable grazing land was…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday: Victoria's blackest week of tragedy and desolation in five years was caused by practically State-wide bush fires which, ended on Saturday night with this terrific toll:…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Fires in the Ballarat and Geelong districts are now under control, but Bendigo, Harcourt, Sutton Grange and Sedgwick fires are reported to be still burning fiercely with no wind, but…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The damage caused by the Victorian bush fires in the past week is now estimated to exceed £2 million. The Commonwealth Government has made a grant for this amount as relief for victims of the fires in Victoria and New South Wales…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: The death-roll in the Victorian bushfires now totals 19…
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CANBERRA, Monday: The Commonwealth Government will consider proposals to divert Allied Works personnel to rebuild…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Destroys Guest House
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Over 30 guests and several members of the staff had a narrow escape from death at 1 o'clock this morning…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday: When a 50-roomed guest house at Sassafras was destroyed by fire in the party hours of this…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—With record food targets to meet this year, the Commonwealth Government is faced with miles of devastated grazing and dairying country as a result of the tragic bushfires in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Bill providing for compensation to bushfire workers is being prepared for submission to the…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Estimates of some members of the State Bushfire Relief Committee are that the bushfire damage may…
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The harrowing accounts of the bush fires in Victoria with lamentable loss of life (21 deaths) and dreadful devastation of property, are a reminder to us of what the North Coast might…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A Bill providing for compensation to bushfire workers is being prepared for submission to the Government…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday:--The State Relief Committee which met for the first time today says that the bushfire…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — The State Government has planned to give relief to people who may be rendered homeless by bushflres, The Premier (Mr. McKell) said to-day the police had been instructed to…
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AUCKLAND. Thursday (AAP).— A 16-years-old pine plantation, which would have returned a yeild of £100,000, has been destroyed by…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—New outbreaks of fires are blazing fiercely between Ganbrook and Packenham. This was reported…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—New outbreaks of the old fires in the western districts are flaring up and blazes in Melbourne bayside areas were reported yesterday. Several townships in Gippsland were…
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The N.R.M.A. declares that while the blame for starting bushfires has often been wrongly laid upon motorists, they must still…
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