The Fire Menace
This week's example of confusion, when men were beings sought to work on the fire at Mr. Roger…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
114 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 6
Bemboka Fight Fire Hydro Power Station Saved By Grand Work
On Wednesday afternoon, a fire broke out in the scrub behind the cottage occupied by County Council employee Francis, at the hydro power station at Bemboka. Senior Constable Yates and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Black” Friday Bush Fires Cause Terrific Damage Two Young Girls Burnt to Death at Bega
The bush fires caused a pall of smoke to hang round Berry on Friday last, in the hottest day experienced for many years, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prohibition on Camping and Picnic Fires Extended
The Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, announced today that he had extended the prohibition throughout the State of NSW…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires Again Yesterday Lesser Outbreaks Held By Firefighters
Yesterday, fires started again in widespread sections of the district, from Tathra Road to Johnston's Quira property, Wolumla area, Toothdale, Daisy Hill Quaama, Brogo, Bunga, and Wapengo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Job of Feeding and Moving Stock After Devastating Fires
Stock were badly hit by the fires, and those which escaped injury in most cases had to go without fee for many hours. However, the local relief committee soon devised a scheme for feeding' the animals, and moving them to agistment until farther notice. The drovers have done wonderful work moving the stock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Valley Is Blackened and Devastated Fierce Fires Ravage Verdant Lands In Headlong Sweep
Today, after seven hours of horror last Friday, the lush green hills of the normally bountiful Bega Valley, have been laid waste; are charred and blackened with gaunt wreckage of the worst bushfire rampage ever known in the history of the district. Damage is estimated at many thousands of pounds, in the area of ruin from Tilba to south of Eden, calculating the loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Survey Made Districts Fire Losses Fencing Lose Large Quantities Of Fencing And Valuable Pastures
Survey teams toured many parts of the burnt area, on Sunday, to seek information that would assist the Relief Committee in distributing assistance. The list, which is published below, though very extensive, may not be quite complete, as there has been no time to investigate yesterday's outbreaks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ottons Saw Fire Burning in Mountains for Weeks Death And Destruction Dealt Out By Terrifying Flames
For six weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Otton and their family, from their Hillfield homestead in the hills of Upper Brogo, watched smoke curling up from fires out in the Yourie Gap. Then, on Friday morning, a blistering north-westerly blew up a wall of burning fire, which dealt out death to Marie, 16, and Jennif[?], 14…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tax Relief for Those Burnt Out
Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Prime Minister, has announced that some relief in the provisional taxation will he granted to those farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Wrecks Farmhouses
All that remains of the farmhouse once occupied By Mr. Bob Hetherington and his partner Mr. Pat Docherty, Mrs. Docherty and young child. There was little time in which to fight the fire and Mrs. Docherty and her child found protection in the nearby…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires Still in Mountains Men Clearing Breaks
Forestry men are endeavouring to rake a break on Mumbulla Mountain as far as Mir. Norman Pearce’s property, to ensure that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Life Savers Fight Fire
Fighting a bush fire a few miles outside of Bermagui, the Association Surf Life Saving Demonstration Team, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Causes Collapse of Important Bridge
This collapsed bridge over the Numerella Creek has closed the back road to Cobargo from Bega. During the height of the fire, on January 25, the limbers of the structure caught lire, and, despite the efforts of a bucket gang and the Mumbulla Shire Council’s water tank equipment, the fire continued to cause the destruction of the structure. This is just one of a number of bridges and culverts lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Snow Leases Can Be Sub-leased Minister Waives Conditions Following Fires
Conditions preventing subleasing or agisting of grazing leases in the Kosciusko State Park have been temporarily…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hungry Cattle Have Their First Feed After Fire
One of the first moves the Bushfire Relief Committee had to make was to get fodder to cattle which had not been fed for many hours, after the fire had burnt so much valuable pasture country. This picture shows starting cattle being fed on Mr. W. Britten’s blackened property, at Numbugga People from other districts helped supply the fodder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Now Under Control
Bush fires had been burning in the Shoalhaven district, getting up dangerously close to Nowra during last week. But…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Berry’s Biggest Cattle Show Disastrous Bush Fires Affect Attendance on First Day Olympic Hunt, Seen for First Time on the Coast, Delights Spectators
THE PRESIDENT AND COMMITTEE OF THE BERRY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Govt. Fire Relief Is Paltry”
Sir, The announcement, that the State Government will give £20,000 for bush fire relief and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Insp. Brown Makes a Comment Speaks on Fire Fighting Organisation
Inspector Brown, officer-in charge of the Bega Police Sub— District, commenting on the fire fighting organisation, said…
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