Bush Fires
AN extraordinary feature of the weather conditions yesterday was the number of bush fires in and about the meteropolitan…
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2,020 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 101
30 Bush Fires Ring City As Snow Covers Country
As snow blanketed the highlands of the State and Sydney shivered under the blasts of a raging wind, bush…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ghastly Find in Bush Police Searchers Discover Human Remains in Ashes of Fire Young Stepson Arrested Brisbane
POLICE inquiries into the disappearance of Ora Howard Mills, a 47-year-old timber-getter, who was camped with two other men near Maroon township, 19 miles south-east of Boonah, culminated sensationally on Thursday with the recovery if numerous pieces of bone,…
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WHILE some houses were shaken by the strong winds during the week-end, others, despite the bitter cold, were menaced by bushfires…
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BLIZZARDS and snowstorms in three State's, a cyclone in Victoria, dust-storms in the far west of New South Wales, and bush fires in Queensland, Casino, Gosford, and suburbs of Sydney combined in a weather paradox to make Australia's week-end the worst…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mulwala Fire. Mulwala
An outbreak of fire occurred in the single men's quarters at the Water Commission depot at Mulwala last evening. While officers were away at tea one of the buildings was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rush of Calls Brigades Busy Fires in Bush
Firemen, who had a busy time during the week-end quelling more than 60 bushfires in the suburbs, were called out again to-day to attend…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire During Snowstorm. Bathurst
A snowsiorm did not dampen the curiosity of Bathurst residents when a fire broke out in an unoccupied shop and dwelling at the corner of Piper and Bentinch streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Chicks Burnt Fire at Hatcheries
About 300 chicks were burnt to death when a shed and store-room at Lanyon's hatcheries, Pennant Hills-road, Parramatta, caught fire early on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Popping Corks Give Fire Alarm in Hotel. Denman
The sound of popping corks aroused the licensee of the Denman Hotel, Mr, E. Lewis early yesterday morning, and rushing downstairs he found the storeroom in the main…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Fiend's Mad Run at Week-end Tree Falls On Six-Year Boy Flame Fighter
A six-year-old boy, struck by a falling tree, suffering a fracture of the skull, after fighting a grass fire near Bonalbo, North Coast; an epic struggle to save six orchardists homes in the Gosford district; and more…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BUSHFIRES. Nearly 70 in Week-end. Sparks in Dry Undergrowth
In spite of the cold weather nearly 70 glass and bush fires occuned in the suburbs during the week-end and hundreds of firemen attended them…
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FIREMEN were kept busy extinguishing bush and gross fires in many suburbs yesterday. A strong westerly wind, which…
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A small fire at Waterloo Public School, Botany-road, was quickly extinguished by chemicals yesterday morning Waterloo Brigade received a call that wood and other…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Drums of Oil Make Big Blaze Spark From Engine Started Fire Darwin Works Darwin
WORKERS erecting the new oil tanks had a strenuous time to day removing 28 large drums, each holding 46 gallons of crude oil…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Dubbo Cottage. Dubbo
A five-roomed weatherboard cottage in McLeay-street was damaged by fire on Saturday night. Mr. C. Thorley, the occupier, was absent at the time of the fire, the cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire at Cathedral. Damage in Store-room
A [?]re occurred in a store-room of the Chapter House, adjoining St. Mary's Cathedral, shortly after 7 o'clock yesterday morning, but it was extinguished before much damage was…
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Fire brigades were called out yesterday to beat out Urea in scrub and Skins at many centres, None of the outbreaks was serious, however, and…
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AS we idled adrift on the Harbor, The tide at midnight having turned—Stealing in, soft of sound, in the darkness ARTIST: "Your homestead is very artistic. May I paint it?" DAD: "No blanky fear! It's just bin whitewashed!"…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Heath Fire. Murwillumbah
A large number of Cudgen farmers and nearby residents succeeded in extinguishing a severe fire which broke out in the heath between Chinderah and Cudgen Headland…
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