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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
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[?] SYDNEY, Sunday.—Two serious grassfires, one on a 20 mile front [?] the other on a 50 mile front, are sweeping towards Walgett (popu[?]on 1800), in north-western New South Wales All available men from Walgett and Brewarrina, 80 miles away, are out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MADIUM, JAVA (AAP-Reuter).— Two Indonesian fire brigades were "invited" three days ahead of the event to attend a fire recently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A grass fire in High Street, Lismore, yesterday took an officer and six men of the Lismore Fire Brigade almost an hour to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—After raging out of control on a 20 mile front, 25 miles north-west of Brewarrina a bush fire was brought under control late tonight. Fanned by a strong southerly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A bushfire, which broke out and extended on the properties of Messrs. G. W. Hillyard and Webb, has been brought under control…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Tuesday. — Bulldozers and road graders were used today to control fires raging in the Wyandra district, in the Darling Downs area. Thirty men answered a special…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Wednesday. — Firefighters in south-west Queensland are almost exhausted after battling for days against flames which have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday. — While temperatures scared today in western N.S.W., graziers and small property owners took great precautions to combat the serious threat of bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A grass and rubbish fire in Norris Street, Lismore, yesterday morning at one time threatened three weatherboard houses. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two grass and rubbish fires occurred in Lismore during the weekend. Al [?]ut 11 a.m. yesterday the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DAVENPORT (Iowa), Sunday (AAP).—The bodies of 37 women have been recovered from the ruins of a three-storey mental ward of the Mercy Hospital, which was burned down early yesterday. One…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Monday (AAP).— Firemen yesterday abandoned the search for other possible victims of the fire which destroyed the three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The officer in charge of Lismore Fire Brigade (Station Officer W. Cork) yesterday repeated his warning against the lighting of fires during the hot, dry spell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lismore Fire Brigade last night extinguished a fire on an electric flight post in Caniaba Street, South Lismore. The fire which had not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DAVENPORT (Iowa), Friday (AAP).—A young woman patient is alleged to have confessed to setting the fire in which 41 women…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday afternoon Lismore Fire Brigade was called to a rubbish and sawdust fire. The brigade was called to the same spot again…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GRAFTON, Sunday.—A fierce blaze tonight gutted a motor bus depot belonging to Mr. J. P. Niland, in Pound Street, Grafton, and did damage estimated at over £1000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BALLINA, Sunday.—Half Of the original East Ballina cemetery, which has been closed for over 20 years, was swept by fire this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lismore Fire Brigade was called out yesterday afternoon to a grass fire in Floral Avenue, near the golf links…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—A tense three hours, packed with fire hazard, were spent at Newcastle harbour tonight, when petrol leaked from a tanker and spread among anchored craft. Firemen from Cook's Hill, Tighe's…
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