Some Out But Others Still Blaze Barren Acres
THE Broken Hill police were advised to-day that the greater portion of the fires in the Ivanhoe district have burned…
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Midnight Fire Alarm
COOTAMUNDRA, Thursday.--At midnight last night the alarm was raised that a grass fire had started on P. R. Scott's Carinya property at…
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Firemen had to tear up portion of the floor to extinguish a lire in Summergreene's Golden Fleece Hotel at Liverpool on Christmas Eve…
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FOUR shots were fired by police in a chase after two youths on a stolen motor cycle yesterday. None took effect…
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Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which broke out this evening in the Petone Woollen Company's warehouse at Christchurch, a five-storied building…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dramatic Chase After Cycle Thieves. Police Fire Shots
All the incidents of an exciting motion picture were enacted yesterday afternoon before two motor cycle thieves, who were chased from Newtown by the police in a patrol car, made…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Fire Buckets Gut Four Buildings All Destroyed
Within a few minutes of the discovery of a fire in the storeroom of Holdstock's bakery, Tullamore, at 2 o'clock this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The West Prays For Rain Fire God Rules Exhausted Fighters Are Losing Heart Airman Tells Graphic Story Cobar
Compelled to retire owing to sheer exhaustion, many of the fire-fighters who have been out for a week say it is useless going out again. Rain--the only hope-- seems no nearer…
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Many serious bushfires are still burning in the west. Hampered by the insufficiency of their numbers and the widespread areas over which the outbreaks are spreading, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bushfires Still Raging in the West Grim Fight Continues Each Hour Victoria Is Now Threatened 'Planes in Use
Station owners in the West are now forced to realise that their efforts to stay the ravages of the bushfires are utterly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Mistaken Idea Planes Useless to Fight Bush Fires
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Major Coleman, secretary of the Air Board, said to-night that Air Force planes could not fight bush fires effectively…
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Wilcannia: Bush fires on the Nelyambo-Cultowa front have been got under control by 30 volunteer fire-fighters, who have been on the…
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Beating out flames on Condonnerie Station, Cobar fire front…
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Can be seen over the hillcrest against the rolling smoke clouds. A striking bush-fire picture taken near Canberra…
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Horsemen in the fire zone near the Murrumbidgee River…
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Sir,--The "Sun" in a leading article (6132) bowalls the fact that thousands of the unemployed in Sydney are not rushing away to fight the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Close-up of One of the Western Fires
The disastrous fires of the past fortnight have desolated wide areas of this Cobar country. (See story next page.)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fighting the Grass Fires. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir.—Referring to my letter published on 4th last, and your able leader of the 5th, commenting on same on above subject you may be able to find a little room for me to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Damages Cottage. During Occupants' Absence
A collage at Jersey Ave., Penslinrst, occupied by Walter Leslie Hobman, who, with his family, is spending a holiday near Bega, was greatly…
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