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Fires & bushfires, 1926

3,561 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 179

Experts Call Bush Fires Work of Criminals Estimates Place Deaths at 30 and Forestry Loss at £300,000 MELBOURNE

Sunday Times · Sunday 21 February 1926 · page 5

Forest officials are strongly of opinion that many of the Grppsland fires were deliberately started and believe those responsible can be traced and punished…

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New Fires Gippsland Still Blazes Plucky Wife Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 21 February 1926 · page 2

Most of the Gippsland fires are dying out, but a few new blazes that have sprung up may yet prove serious. Breaks have been burnt at East…

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20,000 Acres Burnt Fires in the West Orange

The Sun · Sunday 21 February 1926 · page 2

This week's bush fires spread over nearly 20,000 acres of timbered country. Four thousand acres of the State…

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Exploding Benzine Fire at Armidale Armidale

The Sun · Sunday 21 February 1926 · page 2

Two business premises were destroyed by fire to-night. The fire broke out in A. Ketfer's motor garage, of which it made a…

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Cry of Fire Picture Patrons File Out Musical Exit Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 21 February 1926 · page 2

Five hundred people in the Solway Picture Theatre, Brunswick-street, Fitzroy, were alarmed by a call of fire to-night…

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French Tennis Stars Outclass the American Champions Tilden Lost His Fire Reign Over ? Helen Wills May Soon Hold World Title

The Sun · Sunday 21 February 1926 · page 1

The decisive defeats, in straight sets, of Tilden and Richards by Borotra and Lacoste, respectively, mere not flukes. The New York press agrees that the Frenchmen brilliantly outplayed the Americans and deserved their victories. Brugnon similarly accounted…

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Sydney Bush Fires

The Sun · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 7

There were many outbreaks of bush fires in the Sydney suburbs yesterday. The Hornsby firemen, under Station Officer Amor, were called out to a fire…

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Bush Fire Front

The Sun · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 7

Bush fires are rushing through the dry and highly inflammable undergrowth in the Tooma district, close to the Murray River. Tumbarumba and Tooma are…

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From the Pulpit. the Bush Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 10

The Rev. J. H. McGowan, preaching yesterday morning at the Ashfield Presbyterian Church, said that during this past week they had all been stirred by the tragic news of…

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Bush Fires. Tumbarumba. Township Threatened. WAGGA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 11

News of a fire, threatening the devastation of a large area of valuable mountain ash timber country and sheep and cattle depasturing on the Tumbarumba Mountain relief country,…

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Bush Fires Victorian Relief Damage to Timber Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 1

The bush fire relief fund exceeded £70,000 yesterday. The Acting-Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) stated last night that the…

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DELIBERATE ! Starting Bush Fires Official View State Forests Endangered Wagga

The Sun · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 7

Forestry Department officials believe that, regardless of the menace to valuable State forests or imperilling the lives of scores of…

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Bush Fire Menace Bankstown Problem Danger From Scrub

Evening News · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 3

ONE OF the biggest problems which Bankstown district has to face is the bush fire menace. Many miles of municipality were…

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Bush Fire Relief Funds Still Growing Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 7

Bush fire relief funds continue to grow. This morning there was a total of £81,648 in the various funds as follows:--"Melbourne Argus,"…

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Bush Fires Again. N.S.W. This Time Valuable Grass Is Lost Stock Will Suffer Goulburn

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 1

The bush fire that started at Roslyn railway construction camp on Wednesday, and swept through to Middle Arm, hat left a trail of…

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Fought and Beaten Narrandera Fires Narrandera

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 6

A bushfire broke out on the property of Mr. K. H. F. Doyle about ten miles east of Narrandera. and sweeping through the hills threatened…

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The Great Divide. Extensive Fires. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 11

Late messages received to-night indicate that fires are still burning dangerously in the Healesville district and in the Otway ranges at Healesville. A cool south-west wind is…

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Help for Fire Victims

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 4

Sir.--I have rend with horror the tragic nows of the disastrous tires in New South Wales und Victoria. It is almost impossible for us city…

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1500 Sheep Burnt. Fires at Condobolin. Condobolin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 11

Fire broke out recently on Mr. Thos. Judd's place near Melrose Hotel. About 3000 sheep were in a paddock, and about 1500 of them were burned to death. Three thousand acres of…

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Fire at Tamworth. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 12

A fire caused considerable damage to the blacksmithing and coachbuilding premises of Mr. T. Dorrington. Mr. Dorrington had been [?]eating some tyres in the rear of his shop…

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