Demand Fight Fires By Plane
RANGERS, equipped with aeroplanes and scientific instruments, should be appointed to police areas likely…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires & bushfires, 1939
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Many Ways To Fight Fires
With monotonous regularity, the scourge of the has decimated large areas and taken toll of many lives in New South Wales, South Australia and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires Block Drive at National Park
Worst of the bushfire damage at National Park was to the Lady Carrington Drive. Trees, some of them 10ft. in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gift From Ex-enemy Help Victims Of Fires
From far-away South Africa comes deep sympathy and practical assistance for young Australians who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Destroys Cottage. Temora
Fire destroyed a cottage tenanted by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whybrow, of Temora, at midnight. The occupants, who were asleep at the time of the outbreak, were forced to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inquiry Into Fire. Inverell
An open finding was returned at the inquiry into a fire which occurred in Arthur Counsel's boot repairing business on January 2. Ernest White said he was sleeping upstairs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Keepsake Gift to Fire Victims
CESSNOCK, Thursday.--Yesterday the new radio station, 2CK, Cessnock, called over the air for assistance for the people who had suffered as a result…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fund For Fire Victims Grow
Amounts ranging from one hundred guineas down to one shilling have been received by the Lord Mayor. Ald. Nock, for his Bush Fire Disaster Relief Fund…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Hotel. Hay
A fire yesterday afternoon destroyed stables, a garage, and an open shed at the rear of the South Hay Hotel. A larger garage and the main building were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Real Government Aid for Fire Sufferers
The heat wave, the droughty conditions and finally the bushfires have left a trail of devastation in the country areas of several States. Much of this loss and suffering could have been averted had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narrow Escapes in Leichhardt Factory Fire
The remains of Charles Dickinson's furniture factory in May, Joseph, and Helena Streets, Leichhardt, after it had been damaged by fire yesterday, causing a loss estimated at £10,000. Workmen had narrow escapes from injury, and firemen were menaced by falling walls, one of which crashed on an adjoining house, partly demolishing it…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Swagman Who Left Fire. Tumut
At Tumut Police Court, John James Joseph Quinlan, 30, a swagman, was fined £30, in default 60 days' gaol, tor leaving a fire in the open air, and which he had used, before being…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Risk in Fire Men Nearly Trapped
While attempting to save furniture from a blazing factory at Leichhardt yesterday, several men narrowly, escaped being trapped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kogarah Fire Brigade Council Praises Saturday’s Efforts
Ald. Bell, Mayor of Kogarah, at this week’s meeting of the council, praised the Kogarah Fire Brigade for its wonderful services on Saturday, when so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Used Hat On Fire; Paid 226 GRAFTON
Something new in compensation claims has come before Nymboida Shire Council. Mr. W. Haupt, of Grafton,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Concrete Line Halts Franco's Advance Loyalists Face Fire From Sea London
TEMPORARILY, at least, General Franco's advance toward Barcelona has been halted at the line of the Republicans' prepared concrete defences. Despite a heavy bombardment from rebel warships…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Readers On Busk Fire Menace Blame Gov't. "Bushman" Calls For Action
The bushfires in Victoria, with their awful death toll, bring us to the conclusion that township areas should be "declared" by law in the timber districts in all Australian States. These township areas would "be required to have a cleared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Mysteriously Starts In Benzine: Guts £20,000 Factory Second Strange Outbreak in Nearby Cottage
A tub of cleaning benzine, mysteriously catching fire, was responsible for the destruction of a Leichhardt furniture factory yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Appalling Deathroll in Bushfires and Heat Wave
ADVANCES by the Rural Bank at 4 per cent interest will be made to those in need of assistance to repair damage sustained in the disastrous bushfires which last week-end caused damage throughout the State officially estimated at £300,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Control of Bushfires
Suiprise, rather than assent, will greet the confident assertion of the Piemier that "the Government has "piovided an excellent organisation to…
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