CANBERRA. -- Efforts will be made by the Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) to clear the way for giving urgent priority to all measures necessary to assist the Victorian Government in restoring the areas devastated ...
Article : 378 wordsCressy was saved by a small creek to the northwest, which divided the fire into two wings, encircling ...
Article : 254 wordsSOME OF THE THOUSANDS OF SHEEP burnt to death in fires which blazed through the Western District. The picture was taken near Skipton. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsFires in the Mortlake (Western) district made such a clean sweep that it is estimated that for 50 miles, from Dunkeld to Darlington, the country is one great open paddock, with all fences gone. The whole of this area is a blackened waste. ...
Article : 552 wordsIT was exactly five years ago last Thursday since the last devastating series of bushfires swept over Victoria, on ...
Article : 113 wordsTrapped with his wife and three children in his motor car at Werneth, when the entire township was razed by the flames, Mr Jack Butler, well-known district farmer, witnessed the tragedy which overtook four victims of the Rokewood fire. ...
Article : 239 wordsBALLARAT.--Jumping into a waterhole in the belief that it would save him, but only to be scalded to death, was the ...
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Article : 15 wordsDAMAGE estimated at £50,000 was done to buildings and 200 people were made homeless by the bushfire at Beaumaris, 15 ...
Article : 339 wordsA WOMAN had a narrow escape from death and lost £150 to save her four-months-old baby's life, when her home ...
Article : 88 wordsONE man was killed and four injured when a car travelling between Chatsworth and Lake Bolac in the Western ...
Article : 113 wordsIN the Mortlake district, five station homesteads were burned. They are: Corra homestead, owned by Mr ...
Article : 430 wordsTHE Premier (Mr Dunstan) and the Lord Mayor (Cr. Nettlefold), have launched a joint appeal for funds to assist the ...
Article : 207 wordsWilliam Preston, 69, of Mt. Duneed, collapsed when fire-fighting and died before reaching Geelong Hospital. Joseph Williams, 74, of Mt. Duneed, suffered burns in a fruitless endeavor to save his home, and his wife, Kathleen Williams, ...
Article : 214 wordsMANY telephone and telegraph lines have been dislocated by the fires. Until reports from outlying places are collated, it is ...
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Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), Wed 19 Jan 1944, Page 5
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