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Grave suspicions that reports of the bushfires in the Western district have been greatly magnified in an attempt by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two cottages were damaged by fire early yesterday morning. Shortly after 2 o'clock, the Hurstville Fire Brigade was called to World's-avenue, where an unoccupied…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Temora firemen had a strenuous time last night. They were called out to two fires, which destroyed three premises. The first outbreak occurred at 9 o'clock in Mr. W. Fish's…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THEY HAD to walk delicately over the hot pavement at Bondi…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire at 11.30 o'clock last night destroyed a cottage owned by Mr. W. Black and occupied by Mr. H. Kable. Nothing was saved. The property was partly insured…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Guy Williams playing for Country against City in tennis doubles at Rush cutters Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DUBBO, Sunday.--Spirits rising as each mile brings them nearer to the fight with the western fires,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A detachment of members of the New Guard left Homebush on Saturday afternoon in buses, to fight the bushfires in the Cobar district…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The "Herald" correspondent at Cobar reported by telephone last night that a fresh outbreak had occurred on Wirlong station, about 60 miles south of Cobar, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Between 10.30 p.m. on Friday and 4.30 a.m. on Saturday arrangements were made by the New Guard to send 200 members to fight the bushfires in the Cobar district, and a little…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Guardsmen equipped with leather firebeaters, about to leave Homebush on Saturday for the bushfires near Cobar…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →EVER since white folk dominated Australia no summer has passed without sporadic outbreaks of bushfire. Even in the days when the aborigines were the supreme power in the land, the long, dry native grass was sometimes fired in order…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The vivid drama of the bush fires is captured in thrilling fashion in a special sound film recorded by the Cinesound truck which Greater…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Air Force Wapiti 'planes are permanently available to spot for bush fires in Victoria under an agreement made nearly two years ago between…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →OUT of the holocaust of the West has come the unforgettable lesson that organised forces of bushfire…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Portion of the business section of Tullamore destroyed by fire last week. The damage was estimated at between £ 6000 and £ 10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →REGARDLESS of the fact that two Italians were in a bedroom upstairs, incendiarists made an attempt early to-day to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →COBAR, Monday.--Fresh from a night's sleep the Sydney relief fire fighters will be despatched at seven in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FULLY equipped and ready for hard work, the first 'bus-load of New Guards left for the fire area this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The fires south of Cobar are gradually dying out. All smouldering logs on the Meadow Glen front have been extinguished by carting tanks of water and carefully dragging away anything…
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