Victoria Bash Fires Ex-coolamon Residents’ Terrifying Experiences Letter From Mrs. J. GUTHRIE
Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 4
Mrs. J. (Kath) Guthrie, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. P. J. Dwyer of Coolamon, in a letter to her mother, written from Macedon (Vic) on 16th January…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Warning of Risk
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 2
SYDNEY, Friday: The following is a statement issued by the State meteorologist (Mr. Mares) to-day: Temperatures are expected to increase…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suspicious Fire at Temora
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 2
Detective H.J. Cloke, of Wagga, visited Temora at the week-end to assist the Temora police in occurred at Temora early on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alexishafen Bombed Many Large Fires Destroyers Bombard Solomons Positions
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 2
General MacArthur's Headquarters, Friday: The adverse weather which on Tuesday and Wednesday slowed down the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cowabbie Woolshed Burned Fire Fighters' Good Work
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 2
On Wednesday afternoon the Cowabbie woolshed with engine and machinery for eight stands together with wool and skins, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires Around Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 3
SYDNEY, Sunday: Sydney was practically ringed by bush fires to-day. Damage was only of a minor character, as brigades were on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suspicious Fire at Temora
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 2
Detective H. J. Cloke, of Wagga, visited Temora to assist Temora police in inquiries into a suspicious fire which occurred at Temora…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Fires Man. Burned to Death in Suburb
Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A 76 year-old pensioner, Richard Love, lost his life when trapped by a grass fire which broke out in Bentleigh, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol Terms Possible for Fire Reaches
Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 2
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The police will press for severe penalties for breaches of the law controlling fires. This will be done at the request of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Battleship on Fire Hit During Toulon Raid London. Sunday.(A.A.P)—
Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 2
The French battleship Dunkengue which was hit in the Allied raid on Toulon on Friday, is now On fire at the docks, says the Vichy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire at Gilmore
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2
A fire broke out at the southern end of Mr. Noel Harris's property, "Oxley," Gilmore, last Tuesday, at noon, just after the goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Brigades Seek Financial Assistance
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 3
The Shire President, in this issue, makes an appeal to landholders and institutions interested in the protection of properties against fire, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local & General Bush Fire on
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2
The bush fire alarm rang on Sunday afternoon for an outbreak on Mr. John Martin's place on the Ironbong road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wee Jasper Bush Fire Nearly 8000 Acres Burnt and 800 Sheep Lost
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2
The fire at Wee Jasper referred to in our last issue broke out on Wee Jasper Station at mid-day on Monday of last week in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at "Karoopa"
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2
Alter successfully avoiding destruction of his property during the recent bush fires, Mr. V. P. Bragg, of "Karoopa," Crowther, had the misfortune…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thieves Cause Big Fire
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday: Thieves who broke into a shop in Parramatta Road, Concord, early this morning are believed to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fire at S.h Hospital
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2
The town fire alarm was Given on Friday afternoon for a grass fire on the Sacred Heart Hospital grounds. The brigade was quickly on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Red Hand is Clutching in Five Directions Rings of Fire "Never-ending Rain of Shells"
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 1
LONDON, Monday: Having already out off ten German division in the Kancy pocket and five others in the Nikepol area, the Russians have now…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Councils Urged to Use Powers
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 February 1944 · page 5
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Shire councils are strongly urged to use the emergency powers which have been given under the National…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Councils Urged To Use Powers
The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 February 1944 · page 3
Shire councils are strongly urged to use the emergency powers which have been given under the National Security Regulations concerning the…
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