THOUSANDS of pounds damage was caused by fires in country towns and over grass land yesterday. With intense heat and drying winds helping the flames, fire brigades and volunteers, working often without adequate ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 133 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Wednesday.—Fire which broke out in Borambola district late today was burning fiercely in ...
Article : 181 wordsARARAT, Wednesday. — Ararat’s historic and handsome Church of England was destroyed by lire today. As the flames roared through the roof, rising 80ft., the fire brigade worked without hope, powerless to save the building because of the intense heat. ...
Article : 117 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—D. Lewis, trainer of Te Hero, was fined £5 at Kensington races today for having taken a cattle-dog to the course in an attempt to make the horse start. Te Hero refused to leave the ...
Article : 203 wordsMAFFRA, Wednesday.—In a temperature of 104 deg., while the harvest was being brought in on Messrs. Gray Bros.' property, [?] miles from Maffra, a motor truck caught fire and set the hay alight. The driver, Ted Gray, had a narrow escape. ...
Article : 131 wordsTO escape from flames when he was trapped behind a furnace at the premises of All Metals Smelters, Rosslyn Street, ...
Article : 110 wordsSALE, Wednesday. — With the ther-mometer registering 105 in the shade, the biggest grass fire in the district this season broke' out at ...
Article : 92 wordsTPATURA, Wednesday. — Fire today menaced a block of wooden business houses in Hogan Street, Tatura. Starting in a storage shed behind ...
Article : 78 wordsTHE Prime Minister (Mr. Menzics) will return to Melbourne today from Macedon to preside at a meeting of the War Cabinet. CABJNET will receive a detailed report from the Minister for Air ...
Article : 150 wordsWHlLE children were busy building sand castles in The Sun contest at Frankston yesterday, a 12-years-old girl got into difficulties 100 yards ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Tins of German depth-finding ex-plosives, washed up on the South Coast, haye puzxled naval and army officers in Sydney. They cannot explain their presence in the sea. ...
Article : 143 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—A deficit of £1,219,532 lor the first six months of the financial year is shown in Government accounts. For the ...
Article : 33 wordsTHE DRIVER HAD A NARROW ESCAPE late last night when this sedan crashed on a rockery in Dandenong Road, near Windsor Bridge. A palm tree prevented it crashing through the railway fence on to -the line 50ft. below. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.— Mrs. Lorn Smith, CO, and her daughter, Agnes Smith, 24, were killed when the Rotorua express ...
Article : 37 wordsBEAUTIFULLY bound and printed, and generously illustrated by photographs, a book entitled Memoirs of My Life was received unexpectedly yesterday by the Lord Mayor (C. Coles) from James George Kanka, of Chicago. ...
Article : 150 wordsDUNEDIN (N.Z.), Wednesday.— Rear Admiral Byrd's polar expedition ship Polar Star sailed for (he Antarctic from Dunedin today. ...
Article : 23 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Tile Federal *¦Government lias decided that one of two Tribal class destroyers will be built at Mort’s Dockyud. ’igi ...
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The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), Thu 4 Jan 1940, Page 1
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