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Above: Kia-ora Guest House, on the Caves Road, near Jenolan, which was destroyed by fierce bushfires yesterday. The building was worth £4,000. Below: Burned trees and charred fences which blocked the Caves Road. The fires menaced the Government Tourist Bureau's Caves House…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fierce bushfires roared through miles of thickly timbered country from Oberon to Jenolan Caves yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →From midday on Tuesday bush fires threatened to destroy a number of homes on the southern side of the Faulconbridge station. Amongst those…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Liverpool Fire Brigade had a busy time last Monday. Called out at 1.31 p.m. the fire fighters were four hours quelling a bush fire that ragged in an area between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fairfield Fire Brigade started the new year with plenty of calls to fires. On Saturday, January 3, the brigade extinguished a scrub fire in Anz[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At Penrith Police Court to-day, before Mr C. Pickup, P.M., Robert William Johnson was fined £10, in default ten days, on a charge that on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires raged on the common, along Tadmoor Road, Cranebrook, on Tuesday, and only the strenuous fighting of police, soldiers, and residents…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Water can be used on an incendiary bomb only in a fine spray. If too much water is thrown on to a bomb it will cause such a violent spluttering…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →KATOOMBA, Thursday. -- Many birds and animals were destroyed in the recent bushfires in the Jenolan Caves area…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.--A fife destroyed a railway bridge at Bungendore, 30 miles from Canberra, early today, disorganising rail traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Rail traffic between Sydney and Canberra was disorganised to-day because of the burning of a culvert near Bungendore,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This is the 15th of a series of instructions by the N.E.S. Minister (Mr. Heffron) on what to do in an air-raid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HARD work by police, residents, and soldiers, aided opportunely by a change of wind, saved a number of houses at Emu Plains…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →KATOOMBA, Thursday.-- Sweeping to within a quarter of a mile of Jenolan Caves, fire late yesterday destroyed a weatherboard cottage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Thursday.--A terrific Russian assault has smashed the German defence line guarding Kharkov, heart of the rich Donetz Basin industrial area, and the city's fall is expected at any moment. A few miles eastward of the city, where seme German forces…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thursday.-- A terrific Russian assault has smashed the German defence Sine guarding Kharkov, heart of the rich Donetz Basin industrial area, and the city's fall is expected at any moments A few miles eastward of the city, where seme German forces…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thursday.-- A terrific Russian assault has smashed the German defence line guarding Kharkov, heart of the rich Donetz Basin industrial area, and the city's fall is expected at any moment. A few miles eastward of the city, where some German forces…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This is the story, as told by the London "Catholic Times," of how a priest fared when he applied for exemption from firewatching before his local tribunal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEIGHBORS should co-operate and organise their own fire service to deal with fire bombs. These parties have proved successful all over…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →NEIGHBORS should co-operate and organise their own fire service to deal with fire bombs. These parties have proved successful all over…
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