Lessons in Fire Fighting Experiences of a Wagga Man At the Disastrous Victiorian Fires
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 February 1944 · page 3
I noticed in your paper of January 20 that you made reference to my being present at the recent disastrous Wangaratta fire, and it occurred to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Materials to Replace Buildings and Fences
Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 4
To ensure speedy distribution of materials required to replace fences and buildings destroyed by bush fires, the Directorate of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Relief Officials Visit Burnt Areas
Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 2
Mr. Max Henry and Mr. C. J. Jacka, two members of the Bush Fire Relief Committe recently set up by the Commonwealth and State Governments…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wee Jasper Bush Fire Nearly 8000 Acres Burnt 800 Sheep Lost
Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 7
At the fire at Wee Jasper last week, in thickly-timbered country which had been rung approximately ten years, and which carried a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Failure to Extinguish Fire Local Man Fined £5
Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 2
At the Tumut Police Court yesterday before Mr. Sargeson, P.M., Arthur W. Graham was fined £5, with court costs 10,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jindalee Shire Council Fire-fighting Unit to Be Bought £10 Voted to Relief Fund
Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 6
The Jindalee Shire Council decided on Tuesday night to spend over £100 an a fire-fighting unit. The meeting also resolved to vote £10 to the Cootamundra Bush Fire Relief Fund. Bush fires were the main items of discussion, and the…
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Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1944 · page 4
The Junee Fire Brigade, finder Captain W. Edwards, was called to a grass fire yesterday afternoon on the orchard property owned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Western Yunnan Province Fires Started by U.s. Planes
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1944 · page 1
CHUNGKING, Friday (AAP): Fires from which smoke rose 10,000 ft. were started by American fighter-bombers in an attack…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Position of jurymen Landowners Should Not Be Called, Says Judge Berne
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2
Unusual but very natural incidents marked the bearing of a case on Tuesday at Yass Quarter Sessions. It directed attention to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundagai Graziers Assn. Gets Results Bush Fire Fighters And Rationed Commodities
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2
At last month's annual meeting of the Gundagai Graziers Assn, Mr Alec Nicholls informed the meeting that when requested to bring,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Batlow District
Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2
It is reported from Batlow that a fire broke out on "Wybalena" after the train had passed, but fortunately it burnt away from the homestead…
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Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2
Shortly before 5.30 pm. yesterday, the Wagga Fire Brigade received a call to the river bank between Sturt and Kincaid streets. Wagga, where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Items of News Prompt Action Prevents Fire Spread
Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 2
Prompt action on the part of a shop assistant in ringing the Wagga Fire Brigade saved serious damage being done to Messrs. David…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Affect Jurymen
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 4
Unusual, but very natural, incidents marked the hearing of a case on Tuesday at Yass Quarter Sessions. It directed attention to the unenviable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Last Week-end
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3
There were two bush fires at the week-end. One destroyed about 1000 acres of rough grazing country on "Fontenoy," Wallendbeen, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.S.W. Bush Fire Warning
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday: A warning that bush fires are possible in the central and south-eastern areas of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Fires Rain to the Rescue
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The danger from bush fires was considerably reduced early this morning as a result of rain and a change in the wind. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Large Quantity of Hay Burnt Big Blaze on Toorak Road
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3
A destructive fire occurred on the Misses Grant's property on Toorak Road on Thursday afternoon" last, when a large quantity of hay that was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grass Fire at Junee
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 2
The Junee Fire Brigade, under Captain W. Edwards, was called to a grass fire in the yard of J. S. Taylor's shops in Broadway. Storage sheds were in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fires In Victoria Morwell and Yallourn Three Burned to Death
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Monday: Big fires to-day swept near the electric power centre of Yallourn and raged inside the township of Morewell. where one…
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