THE WEEK REVIEWED (Article; Bush Fires: A pictorial survey of Victoria's most tragic week, January 8-15, 1939. Published in aid of the Bush Fire Relief Fund by the Sun News-Pictorial in co-operation with its newsagents, pp2-3) THE fiercest bush fires Australia has known since its discovery are quiescent at the moment, and Victoria, in the comparative coolness of the change which came with rain on Sunday night, has begun·to count its losses. In the fiery eight days, from Sunday to Sunday, at least sixty-six men, women and children have lost their lives in forest fires, or have succumbed to burns and shock; many others have died from heat; and several serious cases of burns are being treated in hospitals. Two babies in Narrandera district have died, and ten others are in hospital, because of milk soured by the record temperatures of those eight days. Forest damage totals at least a million pounds, and incalculable damage has been done to the seedlings which were to have been the forests of the future. Water conservation will be seriously affected by the silting-up of reservoirs and streams from which protective timber has been taken by the all-engulfing flames. More than a thousand houses have been destroyed, and these, with 40 mills, and schools, post-offices, churches, and other buildings, represent a loss of at least half a million. At least 1500 are homeless. For their aid, money raised in appeals has now passed the £50,000 mark, and the biggest relief organisation ever set up in peace time has swung into operation. The First Hint Victoria's first hint of what was to come appeared on Sunday, January 8, when most parts of the State awoke to find a blistering day awaiting. At 12.20 p.m., when the thermometer reached its highest for the day, 109.6 degrees, the first fire victims were at that moment going to their death on a bush track five feet wide off the main road to Narbethong. They were the forestry officers Charles Isaac Demby and John Hartley Barling, who went to warn Demby of his danger when he parted from his companions, and was himself surrounded by the treacherous fire. It was not until 8 o'clock next morning that the tragic news was flashed throughout the State. Searchers found the two charred bodies close together, one seeking protection in the nook of two logs. Barling's watch had stopped at 1.20. In the meantime, tragedy was spreading its cloak. By Monday, big fires were raging at Toolangi, Erica, Yallourn, Monbulk, Frankston, Dromana, Drouin South, Glenburn, and Blackwood, with smaller outbreaks at many other centres. In the ensuing week, while women and children were evacuated as fast as the flames would permit, Erica-scene of the 1926 fire disaster-thrice escaped doom by a change of wind. Indeed, those who have been in the fire country these past days say that the numbers of times a change of wind has saved towns from destruction is amazing. In the towns they speak of miracles. Monday's Miracles The escapes from Monett's Mill at Erica and from the Hardwood Company's Mill at Murrindindi, near where Demby and Barling went to their death, were Monday's miracles. Twenty came out alive from each mill. At the first a 60ft. dugout provided an oven-like refuge; at the second, 12 women and children survived in the smoke-filled gloom of a three-roomed cottage while their eight men, their clothes sometimes afire, poured water on the wooden walls. Three houses out of ten remained when the fire had passed. Record Temperatures Sunday had been the hottest Melbourne day for 33 years; Monday dropped to a 76.1 degree maximum; but Tuesday dawned hotter than ever, the mercury reaching 112.5. By now rumor was racing ahead of fact; whole towns were being reported lost; the alarm was raised for scores of missing persons. But fact soon overtook rumor, and within a few days the staggering toll began to mount to a figure beyond the wildest imaginings of the panic-stricken. Six died from heat on this torrid Tuesday, and the fires spread in a wide swathe from south-west to north-east across the State. Fish died in shallow streams. A curtain of smoke hid the sky from all Victoria, and hung far out to sea. It alarmed passengers on ships. On the Ormonde, on the voyage to Sydney from Burnie, women ran on deck, believing fire had broken out in the hold. Days later the smoke reached New Zealand. In Melbourne thousands of fire-volunteers were leaving in cars: vans, motor-buses-anything reliable on wheels-to aid the country in its grim fight. In the fires at Rubicon and. Narbethong, seventeen were facing death this day. But not till Wednesday, when Melbourne breathed again in a cool change, while the country still sweltered in temperatures up to 117 degrees, did the news come through the tree blocked roads. A woman and her little daughter, trapped on the road, were among those who died. Their bodies, and those of menfolk with them, were found strewn out at intervals along the road, where the furnace of the surrounding fire had dropped them in their tracks as they ran. Twelve died at a Rubicon mill, five on the road at Narbethong. At Alexandra, not far distant, a baby was born while the fires raged, and stretcher-bearers brought in the injured. On Thursday the State Government voted £5000 for the relief of fire victims. The Governor (Lord Huntingfield) and the Lord Mayor (Cr. Coles) visited some of the stricken areas, and dipped into their pockets personally. Later, the City Council, too, voted £5000. Friday, The 13th Friday, the Thirteenth, justified its evil name. A blistering northerly came early in the morning, presaging destruction, and forcing the mercury to a new record of 114 degrees. Racing fires killed at least ten in those terrible 12 hours. Four children were engulfed in the furnace at Colac. Panic drove them, uncontrollable, into the smoke-filled road when the fire raced down behind their home. They choked to death. In other parts fires were joining to make fronts of scores of miles. Kinglake was being menaced on two fronts, £60,000 worth of timber was going up in smoke in Ballarat district. Warburton was surrounded. Residents at Lorne, favoured resort, were being driven to the sea-front by a fire which destroyed at least 20 homes. Healewille. with flames visible from the town at one stage, was in a trough between two fires which burned four guest-houses, seven homes and left its surrounding beauty-spots wastes of bowed-over, blackened tree-fern fronds; with its famous Sanctuary, however, intact. Most of Omeo was destroyed this black day: Noojee. while 200 residents crouched in the river, was being reduced to a waste of buckled iron and smoking timber; Erica was once again saved by a change of wind. Beneath a pall of smoke, the Rubicon victims were buried at Alexandra. Friday night and the early hours of Saturday saw the streets of beleagured towns strewn with exhausted fire-fighters. Their flails beside them, ready for the next call, they lay where exhaustion overtook them-on footpaths, beside lamp-posts, in gutters, in cars, under trucks. Saturday's dawn brought clear skies and lower temperatures in many parts, and from the burnt-out areas came a great rush of tragic reports. The death-roll rushed past the fifty mark with incredible speed. Some had been trapped on roads, others at mills; some, after burying their treasures, had clung too long to the places they had made their homes for many years. Four men lost their lives because one went back for his dog. By Sunday, when the first of the saving rain came, nearly another score of names had been added to the list.Newspaper magazine, 48 pages (incl. covers). Fully digitised and searchable PDFPublished in aid of the Bush Fire Relief Fund by the Sun News-Pictorial in co-operation with its newsagents.bushfires, 1939 bushfires, black friday, warrandyte

The Herald Sun released this series starting Aug 31, 1989 as a collection item and commemoration of WW2 covered all key events of WW2. The extracts are as per the headlines and by lines of the day.Series of a collection of 55 broadsheet newspaper pages covering the entirety of WW2. Each page is a single sheet broadsheet in black and white, with extracts of actual war articles and photos from key days starting from Sept 2, 1939 with the start of the war in Europe and finishing with final surrender of Japan on August 16th 1945.Headed "MY WAR" from part 1 to part 55 with the Sun News Pictorial heading.herald-sun, ww2, commemoration papers

Rectangular wooden mount with a "bronze" medallion at the top and a brass plate at the base which is inscribed."SUN NEWS PICTORIAL" TEN THIRTY FOUR ROAD SAFETY AWARD FOR JULY 1975. SHIRE OF BALLARAT.sun news pictorial. shire of ballarat road safety award.

Article in Sun News PictorialArticle about V.C.P. Government and Transport Board Act and bridge between Phillip Island and The Mainland.local history, documents, newspapers, bridges, phillip island, black & white newspaper clipping

A green handkerchief box containing newspaper cuttings from 'The Sun-News Pictorial,' on flowerless plants. A series from 1-100. Dated 1939.Flowerless plants 1-100. 1939.sciences, general, plants, lydia chancellor, collection, plants, flora, australian flora, plants, australian plants, fungi, botany, sciences

Black and white photo of article from Sun News Pictorial 1973. Phyl NICHOLLS coach of St Joseph's boys football team preliminary final.phyl nicholls, education - primary schools, sport - australian rules football, st josephs catholic primary school, religion - roman catholic church (st josephs)

Dress Pattern from The Sun newspaper. Collected by Mrs Foley, mother of donor.Brown envelope containing dress pattern put out by the Sun News Pictorial newspaper dated 16 August 1967 and addressed to Mrs E. FoleyAnother Reliable Dress Patterndomestic items, sewing

Photograph in Sun News Pictorial 12/5/1938Photograph of new Welshpool Jettylocal history, documents, newspapers, welshpool jetty, jetties, black & white newspaper clipping, welshpool

Article in Sun News Pictorial 21/05/1938Article on opening of the Motor Show and plans for development of Victoria's Tourist Resorts.local history, documents, newspapers, motor show, black & white newspaper clipping

A cutting from 'The Sun News-Pictorial Magazine,' titled, 'Speared by Blacks, but Young Man of 70 Still Goes West.' Dated Saturday, September 16, 1939.The Sunhistory, australian, aborigines, lydia chancellor, collection, australia, history, australian history, aborigines, aboriginal contact

Article in Sun News Pictorial on Monday April 18th 1938.Article on a storm which caused the Cowes ferry ramp to break away from its mooring and also washed a fishing boat ashore.local history, documents, newspapers, cowes ferry ramp, phillip island, black & white newspaper clipping

Newspaper article in Sun News Pictorial 16/5/1938.Article on opening of new Welshpool Jetty by Minister for Public Works, Mr Goodie. Jetty cost 20000 pounds.local history, documents, newspapers, welshpool jetty, jetties, black & white newspaper clipping, welshpool

Photos feature a rowing regatta on Lake Wendouree, a Tram stop shelter (Grenville and Sturt Streets) decorated with hand-made flowers, an arch in Main Road built by local scouts and the Burke and Wills Statue in Sturt St decorated hand made flowers. The tram shelter has the numbers "100". "1838" and "1938" with several well-dressed ladies outside the shelter. Notes the celebrations will continue until April 18. See Reg Item 6418 for a coloured photograph of the shelter from the other side,Yields information about a Ballarat event in 1938.Newspaper Clipping from the Sun News-Pictorial, Melbourne, Monday, March 7 1938, page 14 with four photos of Ballarat's Centenary Celebrations or European settlement in the district. ballarat, centenary, shelters, celebrations, grenville st, sturt st

Taken from "Golf Courses of Victoria" by Kitty McEwan, edited by WA Shut, published by the Sun News-Pictorial. Dated 1935.

228 p., illus., newspaper facsimilesnon-fictionA collection of newspaper headlines gathered to commemorate 50 years since the outbreak of World War II.world war ii, newspapers - melbourne, facsimiles

The Herald was a broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia from 1840 to 1990. The Herald ceased publication on 5 October 1990, but on 8 October 1990, The Herald's name was merged with sister morning newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial to form the Herald Sun, which contained columns and features from both The Herald and The Sun News-Pictorial.This newspaper gives an insight into everyday life in the late 1950's and is a useful reference tool.A 40 pp complete broadsheet newspaper, The Herald - Melbourne. It is dated Saturday, August 16, 1958. It cost 3d.newspaper-the herald media communication-print

Sir Hubert Opperman (1904-1996) was an Australian politician and cyclist, whose endurance cycling feats in 1920s and 1930s earned him international acclaim. He competed in many international races including the Tour de France.Sir Hubert Opperman was award the OBE whose cycling feats earned him international acclaim.Newspaper article printed in the Sun News-Pictorial, Saturday, January 18, 1930. Article includes Hubert Opperman's photo together with a description of his cycling record ride from Sydney to Melbourne.geelong cycling club; sir hubert opperman; tour de france; newspaper article.

Article on need for a bridge linking Phillip Island and the Mainland - published in Sun News Pictorial on 14/4/1938Article on the need for a bridge linking Newhaven and San Remolocal history, documents, newspapers, bridges, phillip island, black & white newspaper clipping, bridge phillip island & san remo

Mounted photograph of Geelong No. 23 decorated for the Centenary of the establishment of Geelong in 1938, photographed in Corio Terrace, decorated with festooned lighting and other "baubles" and items. On the sides, the letters "1838.1938". Tram has the destination of West, with a driver in the front cabin. Shows the lighting on the tram in detail and able to see the waxed flowers and other greenery. See also items 5863 and 5865 for other photographs and 8885 for a night photograph.Yields information about tram 23 decorated for the Centenary of the town's establishment.Block mounted photograph onto grey card with printed edges, Print stamped on rear - Photo by E. Bonney of 11 Shannon Ave Newtown Geelong, representing the "Sun News Pictorial" and "Melbourne Herald". celebrations, illuminated trams, tram 23, decorated trams, geelong, centenary

Mounted photograph of Geelong No. 23 decorated for the Centenary of the establishment of Geelong in 1938, photographed at night in Corio Terrace, decorated with festooned lighting and other "baubles" and items. On the sides, the letters "1838.1938". Tram has the destination of West. Shows the lighting on the tram in detail and able to see the waxed flowers and other greenery. See also items 5863 and 5865 for other photographs and 8886 for a daytime photograph.Yields information about tram 23 decorated for the Centenary of the town's establishment.Block mounted photograph onto grey card with printed edges, Print stamped on rear - Photo by E. Bonney of 11 Shannon Ave Newtown Geelong, representing the "Sun News Pictorial" and "Melbourne Herald". celebrations, illuminated trams, tram 23, decorated trams, geelong, centenary

Newspaper clipping article on RACV Caravan Rally at Phillip Island from Sun News Pictorial on 5/4/1938Article on RACV Caravan Rally.local history, documents, newspapers, phillip island, caravans, black & white newspaper clipping

“Acme” Ladies Cricket Team 1905 Newspaper article attached. The Sun News-Pictorial Thursday, June 20, 1935Two very similar photographs of group of ladies standing on and in front of House verandah. Two ladies have cricket bats and lady at centre has white dress. Plus newspaper clipping including clipped copy of first photo. First photo has 13 ladies in it second has 17 ladies.Women who played cricket in Stawell 30 years ago. Thirty years ago the Acme Ladies Cricket team flourished at Stawell. How many of them play cricket now? Members shown are Misses Adelene MacPherson, Flo Marshall, Mab Naylor, Ellie Troutbeck, Eth. Childe, Emm. Childe. Sis. Menzies. Bess Childe, Rube Allingham; Mrs. Marshall White, president; Misses Bel Dawson, Allie Matthews and Gertie Whiteside. stawell sport

Pages 11-,12, 15-16, 21-22 & 25-26 of the Sun News-Pictorial dated 16 October 1924 Featuring Bendigo (one of Victoria's Country centres) and many advertisements for Bendigo businesses

Article on stranding of Cowes Riflemen at San Remo when Punt stopped running. Sun News Pictorial on 12/4/1938.Article on how Cowes Riflemen were stranded at Newhaven.local history, documents, newspapers, cowes riflemen, phillip island, black & white newspaper clipping

A handkerchief box containing 'The Sun-News Pictorial,' cuttings on 'The Wonders of the Wild.' These clips contain photos of Insects, flora, birds, fish, lizards, snakes, trees, marine animals. In serial form 1-100. Dated 1938.Wonders of the Wild. Sun 1938. 1-100place, land, wildlife, lydia chancellor, collection, wildllife, australian flora, australian fauna, plants, animals, australian plants, australian animals, australian wildlife, marine life, australian marine life, australia, sciences