Fire Sweeps Town
WEST MAITLAND, Sunday.--Bushfires yesterday swept trough Seaham, a small farming community 12 miles from Maitland…
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Salute, Fire Heroes
AS the all-destroying fire devil relentlessly advances in Victoria, and other States, the people of the…
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NOOJEE (VIC.) DISASTER. Twisted ruins of a 90ft. high railway bridge on the outskirts of the town. This bridge was destroyed also in 1926…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2000 Coast Volunteers At Fires WOLLONGONG
More than 2000 volunteers yesterday fought fires along the South Coast. Fire brigades from Helensburgh to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Child's Death. South Australian Fires. Adelaide
The South Australian bushfires claimed their first life on Friday when the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted McGinty was fatally burnt at Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Throws Mine Idle
BULLI, Sunday.--Old Bulli colliery will not be working tomorrow. Fire last night destroyed all buildings at the pit-top except a concrete…
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This was a railway station.--Three limes, fire has destroyed the town ol Noojcc, Vic. This time, ironically, it left the name of the station intact--on the ground--after the woodwork had burnt away, leaving the metal figures upside down. Burned about the face and limbs and temporarily blinded by smoke, this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Preparing to Meet Fire Danger
As her neighbours' cottages were being burned to the ground, Mrs. E. Bennett, of Tara Road, Sylvania, moved furniture and other articles into the roadway. The course of the fire changed, however, and her home and property were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at Yamle. Gulgong
A fire at Yamle destroyed a store, butcher's shop and residence, owned by Mr. E. Harvey. The sum of £89 in note, was burned with the store…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Scientists Fight Fires. by Our Special Correspondent. Canberra
Delegates to the Science Congress abandoned all the excursions which had been planned for the week-end, and threw themselves whole-heartedly into…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Threat to Canberra. Fires Approach City. LOSS £250,000. CANBERRA
Destroying thousands of acres of valuable timber sweeping over grazing land, and burning out many homestead buildings the worst bushfires…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Banknotes Saved in Liner Fire Auckland
Two cases of banknotes and two Raeburn oil-paintings, which were in the bullion-room of the liner Rimutaka, escaped damage in the…
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Forestry experts at The Science Congress to-day decided to ask for an immediate conference of all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aid for Fire Victims Fine Response To Appeal BRISBANE
Brisbane opened its heart and purse-strings to-day in sterling fashion for the fund to relieve Victorian fire-stricken refugees…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Speed Launch on Fire. Five Passengers Burned. Two Jump Overboard
When the speed launch Zephyr caught fire on the harbour on Saturday night two people Jumped overboard and 13 others were rescued as…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ruins of Noojee Three Times Destroyed by Fire Victorian Havoc
NOOJEE TOWNSHIP, Victoria, rebuilt upon the ashes of the 1932 fire which completely destroyed the town, for the third time presents this picture of desolation. Not a house stands in Noojee today. A settlement of earlier houses was destroyed by fire in 1926. MASKED FOR warfare against bushfires. They were issued in hundreds by the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Liner at Sea. Officers' Bravery. Rimutaka Outbreak. Auckland (N.z.)
Dramatic incidents in a 24-hour fight against a fire which broke out in the steamer Rimutaka, 16,600 tons (formerly the Mongolia), when she was 1,000 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Terrible Climax to Heat Wave. Disastrous Fires in Two States. 40 More Dead in Victoria. Five Burnt to Death in N.S.W.
The worst heat wave in the history of New South Wales and Victoria reached a terrible climax on Saturday when hushfires spread over wide areas in both States bringing death and destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rain Stops Fire's March One Town Gone, Two Lose 74 HOMES Hundreds Flee Before Driven Flames Seventh Body Found
Light rain sweeping from the coast early to-day brought merciful relief to thousands of men who, for four days, have been fighting the most disastrous bushfires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Damage to Homes and Property in Week-end Bushfires—boys' Camp at Camden
Castle Hill was one of the districts which suffered the greatest damage from Saturday's bushfires. The above photograph shows trees on property near the Showgrounds Road being devoured by the flames, which destroyed about 20 homes nearby. Scores of homes and other buildings were destroyed in the bushfires which ravaged…
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