1000 men fight fire all night
Nearly 30,000 acres of grazing land and timber country near Wagga have been…
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Farmer Lost All in Fire Friends Save Romance
When a 20-mile wide fire roared through the Yass district last week there stood in its path the little…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Huge Fire Ravages Riverina Pastures Fiercest for 20 Years
Volunteers, hastily recruited front a 100-mile area are desperately fighting the worst fire outbreak the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Girl Burned To Death In Hotel Fire Wellington (N.z.)
A 20-year-old housemaid, K. Matthews, was burned to death early to-day when a fire swept through a six-story private hotel at Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Launch Burnt Out
AFTER an explosion, between Shark Island arid Point Piper, yesterday, this 35-foot launch was destroyed by fire. The six people aboard, escaped in the dinghy. RICHARD WHITTINGHAM land Keith Lane, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blaze at Rosehill
Several factories were menaced by a bushfire which yesterday swept through a large industrial area near Rosehill racecourse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfires. Pit Head Blaze. £20,000 Damage at Merewether
Scores of firemen and many hundreds of volunteers worked throughout the week-end fighting serious bushfires in the country and in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hotel on Fire
BULLI, Sunday.--A fire in the laundry of the Royal Hotel, Woonona, to-day caused £100 worth of damage. This included the loss of £25 worth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Launch Gutted by Fire
THREE women and two men had to scramble into a dinghy for safety yesterday when the 30ft. launch Enko burst into flames off Rose Bay. They escaped uninjured, but the £450 craft, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys £450 Launch in Harbor
A £450 35ft. launch was destroyed by fire in the Harbor, between Point Piper and Shark Island, yesterday afternoon. Six people escaped in a dinghy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Skipper Defies Bomber With Rifle Fire LONDON
Skipper Moore, of the Hull trawler, Lowdock (276 tons), believes he drove off an attacking German bomber with a rifle. When the trawler reached port yesterday, Moore said: "Two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Melbourne Town Hall. Serious Damage Averted. MELBOURNE
Prompt action by firemen from all city stations averted a serious fire in the Town Hall early this morning. Firemen, who were called by a watchmen,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Damage at Rosehill Racecourse — Naval Sloop Launched — Heat Drives Thousands to Beach
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Continued on Trove, page 14 →Air Raids. Nazis Sink Two Trawlers. Crews' Heroism Under Fire. London, Feb. 11. (A.A.P.)
The British naval trawlers Robert Bowen (290 tons) and Fort Royal (351 tons) were sunk with the loss of four officers and 18 ratings during…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hopes Rise On Ashes Of Bushfire
Known throughout the Downing district as "the Bookham Battler," a young settler, R. W. Ticehurst, is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Injury at Bushfire Yass
John Henry Richards, 54, died at Yass District Hospital last night, from injuries and shock, suffered while fighting a bushfire at Bookham…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Bushfires
Brigades were called out this afternon to small bushfires at Bankstown, Mortdale and Ryde, but in each case the outbreak was extinguished before…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bushfire Ravages Riverina Wagga
AFTER having raged fiercely for tour days a bushfire which started at Westby on Thursday burned right through to Kyeamba South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1000 Volunteers Fight Bushfires Wind Fans Outbreaks In Suburbs
Many metropolitan fire brigades and 1000 volunteers fought extensive bushfires in outlying…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burglar Fires at Pursuer
A burglar fired at Mr. John Garling Hurley, King Edward Street, Pymble, early yesterday morning…
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