New Gisborne just escaped being burnt out yesterday afternoon. The fire was within half a mile of the station when the wind changed to the west and enabled 400 ...
Article : 295 wordsHEALESVILLE, Tuesday.—Only the desperate efforts of 40 fire fighters saved Woodstock and The Ferns, other guest houses in Myer's Creek road. ...
Article : 967 wordsFires which are raging over the whole of the State, from the Murray to the sea, have taken terrible toll of homes, churches, cattle, sheep, timber mills, and thousands of acres of Victoria's most valuable forests. The appalling loss is beyond calculation. Country reports disclose that few districts have escaped the ...
Article : 1,534 wordsEighty men responded yesterday afternoon to broadcast appeals by the Forests Commission for volunteers to assist in fighting ...
Article : 335 wordsDetectives are inquiring into the origin of the outbreaks at every centre where serious fires have occurred. Inspector A. Stanley, of the ...
Article : 164 wordsBRIGHT, Tuesday.—Mount Bogong, the highest peak in the Victorian Alps, is still ablaze, and the lives of more than 7,000 cattle on the High Plains are ...
Article : 372 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday.—Two houses and a church at Mount Doran were destroyed, six haystacks demolished and a number of sheep and cattle perished in ...
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Advertising : 339 wordsYARRAM.—The town is enveloped in smoke from fires from Carrajung, Tarra Valley, Balook, Blackwarry, and other places in the hills. At Blackwarry a large ...
Article : 89 wordsBENALLA.—The extensive fire which threatened the Upper Ryan's Creek, Tatong, and Toombullup districts is now under control. Two contingents of ...
Article : 1,025 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Covering several hundred square miles of country in and near the Adelaide hills, half a dozen bush fires—some of the worst in ...
Article : 199 wordsMany fires were burning in the Dandenong Ranges yesterday, and a church and at least three houses were destroyed, Other ...
Article : 709 wordsThe funeral of Mr. John Hartley Bariing forester, who lost his life when he was trapped on a fire break near Toolangi on Sunday, left his home in Walhalla ...
Article : 151 wordsCo-operation by the State Government with the Lord Mayor (Councillor Coles) in the relief of bush fire distress was promised yesterday by the Premier (Mr. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 11 Jan 1939, Page 2
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