Bush Fires Man Burned to Death in South Australia
ADELAIDE, Friday: While attempting to beat out a grass fire near his home at Wilmington last night Frederick William Gifford…
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Advance on Pescara Effective German Mortar Fire Indians Take Important Hill
LONDON, Friday (AAP): Eighth Army units are now a mile worth from Ortona along the Adriatic coast road leading to the…
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GEELONG (V.). Sunday: A devastating fire which swept the Barrabill area late this afternoon destroyed between 1500 and 2000 acres of…
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Another of the bushfire victims, Mr. Arthur Wellington, died in the Wangaratta Hospital on Thursday afternoon, making the tenth fatality. Mr…
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Early yesterday morning a grass fire started at the Wagga Experiment Farm but was quick1y brought under control by the Experiment Farm Bush…
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About 40 acres of grass and some fencing were destroyed by fire at Lake Albert yesterday afternoon but only for splendid work by the fire fighters…
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Mr. J. L. Roach. of "Moorong," Wagga. lost about 1700 or 1800 acres of grass and a quantity of fencing in the fire which started on Kapooka…
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LONDON, Tuesday. (A.A.P.).—Sven Hansson, correspondent of the Swedish newspaper, "Svenska Dagbladets," who has returned to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The chairman of the Bushfires Advisory Committee (Mr. Nessor) will talk about the prevention and control…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday: When a fire broke out in the laboratories of E. Keogh, Pty., Ltd., South Yarra, to-day hundreds of pounds worth of…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Fire caused damage estimated at £30,000 at the premises of Marchant and Co. Pty. Ltd., Broadway, early this morning. The…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Damage estimated at £50,000 was caused when a fire to-day burnt out the general store of Shilladay Brothers, Mildura…
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AUCKLAND (NZ), Thursday: The world-famed Waireka Hotel, now being used as a mental hospital, was gravely threatened by serious bush…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Big Bush Fire Started on "Bramshott" Wallendbeen Raced Across Nubba and Redbridge
Shortly after 4 on Wednesday afternoon the bushfire bell was sounded in Cootamundra. Help was wanted beyond wallendbeen, where a fire…
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The town fire alarm rang twice yesterday. The first was for an outbreak on the flat, behind Hurley street. The brigade quickly subdued…
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Mr. Mick Sissian, who has a lease of the historic paddock known as "Freer's," now owned by Mr. Ern. Roberts, looked like being a heavy…
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Cootamundra was disturbed from its slumbers the other night by the clang of the bell for a town fire. The brigade managed to stop it at an early…
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A gas producer on the back of motor car was the cause of a serious grass fire about two miles from Holbrook yesterday. Bags of charcoal…
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A bush fire destroyed ten acres of standing wheat crop, the property of Mr. Fred Whiles of Junee Reefs. The remainder of the crop is yielding nine…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday: Part of the town of Clunes (North Vic.) was destroyed by a bush fire last night Hundreds of people are…
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