Fire Damage to Cargo Auckland
Further advice of the damage to the Rimutaka's cargo, says that cargo in the upper 'tween deck where the fire started, was very seriously…
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Fires Put 800 Out of Work Forest Conservation Inquiry Is Urged
MELBOURNE, Thurs. -- The Trades Hall Council to-night decided to request the Government to set up an authority to inquire into forest conservation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Survivors Of Fires Stagger In: Fears For Today MELBOURNE
All day today blackened, smoke-blinded survivors struggled into townships in the bush-fire area, until tonight there are no known missing persons. Victoria's last two missing men--George Ungey, 75, and James…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Water for Fire. Singapore, Jan. 12
When fl[?] broke out in a [?]hed in which lime was stored at the Naval Base, it was found that no water was available in the vicinity. Firemen and police tore the shed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£1,000 Damage In Hawkesbury Col. Fire
DAMAGE to crops, haystacks, fencing and machinery estimated at over £1,000 was caused when a fire swept through portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Convicts to Rescue Fighting Fire Township Is Saved
For three days convicts from Tumbarumbn afforestation camp have fought bush fires which at times…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Factory Explosion, Fire Reported Man Critically Injured NEWCASTLE
The Sanitarium Health Food Company's factory at Cooranbong, 5 miles from Dora Creek, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First Fire Death in N.s.w. Man Trapped at Bega
The first death due to bushfires in New South Wales is reported from Bega. The victim was Mr. W. Underhill, 65, of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Peril Goes With Gale Many Spend Night of Terror Melbourne
WITH the dropping of yesterday's northerly gale, danger to life has lessened though great fires are still burning on a number of fronts. Erica township, missed by the flames when hope…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Explosion and Fire. Four Men Injured. Seventh Day Adventist Settlement. Newcastle
Four men suffered burns and other injuries which required admission to hospital and half a dozen others were less seriously injured in an explosion in a fire at the Cooranbong…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Great Fire Loss. £400,000 in Victoria, Still Danger. Heroic Rescuers. MELBOURNE
Bushfires are still burning fiercely in many parts of the State, and new areas menaced include the famed Cumberland Valley, near Marysville…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Devastation in Wake of Victorian Bushfires — Country Tennis — Keeping Fowls Cool with Water
The desolate ruins of Clark and Pearce's No. 3 Mill at Rubicon, Victoria, where four men lost their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wax Matches Banned. Bushfire Precaution. Proclamation Soon
In the fight to prevent bushfires, the sale, distribution, or use of wax matches will be prohibited in New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bushfire "Fog" Over Ship 150 Miles Out
Believing the ship to be afire women passengers on the liner Ormonde raced on deck in night attire, on the run from Burnie, Tasmania. Their action almost caused a…
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During the past three weeks, bushfires have been, responsible for the loss of twenty-one lives in Victoria and one in New South Wales. The damage in Victoria alone1 has been estimated at £400,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heat Wave Grows to Awful Climax 62 Now Dead In Bush Fires Tragedies Mount in Country Cool Change To-night Now Forecast
The nation-wide heat-wave, worst in Australia's history, grew to-day to a dreadful climax of tragedy and devastation. SYDNEY awoke from its terrible night, to a day of searing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires Menace Territory Canberra
Fanned by a 50 m.p.h. gale, two of the biggest, bushfires known here are raging in the Federal Capital Territory…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Fires Continue Their Destruction
The township of Warrandyte suffered yesterday from the fierce bushfires which are sweeping Victoria mercilessly and leaving a trail of devastation. A hundred houses were burn ed and women and children were forced to take shelter in the Yarra River, which flows through the town. This picturegram from Melbourne shows the Warrandyte Presbyterian Church being consumed by flames…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Eight Fires in Town. Gilgandra
Business men in Gilgandra have been alarmed by eight outbreaks of fire in the town during the past few days. An inquiry will be held into the fires…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Fighting Equipment
Portable water sprays have been used extensively by fire fighters for many of the smaller outbreaks of fire and grass fires in Victoria this week…
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