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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1937

367 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 18 of 19

Russian Refugees Win State Lottery One Saw £80,000 Thrown Into Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 10 December 1937 · page 7

Mrs. P. Johnson, of the Railway Garage, Taree, holder of the first prize-winning ticket in last night's lottery, "Lucky 7th November,"…

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£15,000 FIRE Wrecks Furniture Factory MELBOURNE

National Advocate · Saturday 11 December 1937 · page 4

Damage estimated at £15,000 wa caused by a fire in a furniture fac lory at Northcote early this morning…

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Out of the Fire Mudgee Bowlers Finish Well Narromine Defeated

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 6

NARROMINE bowlers, fine sports all, arrived bright and early on Wednesday morning last to fulfil pennant…

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Dubbo Theatre Fire Audience in Ignorance Damage to Milliner's Shop Dubbo

National Advocate · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 3

Had it not been for the careful handling of a situation at the Foxy Theatre last night by Mr. Les Scartf the manager and his staff there…

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Dubbo Theatre Fire Audience in Ignorance Damage to Milliner's Shop Dubbo

National Advocate · Tuesday 14 December 1937 · page 3

Had it not been for the careful handling of a situation at the Foxy Theatre last night by Mr. Les Scarff the manner, and his staff, there…

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Wool Store Fire Appeal Upheld Majority Verdict Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1937 · page 2

By a majority verdict the High Court allowed the appeal of Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Ltd. from the judgment of the State Pull Court. The…

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Firemen Fight Grass Fire

National Advocate · Friday 17 December 1937 · page 2

Garden horse and butters of water were used by the Bathurst Fire Brigade yesterday afternoon to extin[?] a grass fire which occurred in a…

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Seaman Injured Clothes Catch Fire Jumps Overboard at Sea ADELAIDE

National Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 1

When has clothes caught fire in the engine room of the ketch Broughton seven miles off the shore in St. V acent's Gulf, seaman J. Edwards…

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Tractor on Fire

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 20 December 1937 · page 7

A tractor at Messrs. Isbester brothers' property, Cobbora, caught on fire, but, fortunately, no damage was done. The fire was quickly…

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Fire at Dubbo Many Boxes Ablaze DUBBO

National Advocate · Monday 20 December 1937 · page 5

Shortly before 1 o'clock today the Dubbo Fire Brigade received a call to East Dubbo, where a large stock of packing cases had caught fire from…

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At Hong Kong French Fire on Jap. 'Planes Hong Kong

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1937 · page 2

The French anti-aircraft guns in the French concession at Canton fired on Japanese planes which dropped bombs near the concession…

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78 Dead Fire in Jap School Tokyo

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 2

A Crow of 5000 people e[?]mpded when a five broke cut at a primary school at Wakeyams during the showing of a newstreel…

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Colliery Workings Ablaze Good Work by Proto Men and Fire Brigade Saves Possible Explosion

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 4

An outbreak of fire which occurred in the old Cobar tunnel yesterday morning required the services of the Western Mines…

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Car on Fire Occupants' Narrow Escape Dubbo

National Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1937 · page 5

A man and his wife, two occupants of a car which was proceeding along the Narromme Read to Cobar the afternoon, had a remarkable escape…

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Fire in Hotel

National Advocate · Tuesday 28 December 1937 · page 2

A wooden covering over the cellar was slightly damaged by a fire which broke out at the rear of the Oxford Hotel in William Street, Bathurst…

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Fire at Gaol £2000 Damage Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 28 December 1937 · page 1

Two inquiries may be held into the fire which on Friday destroyed the tailor's shop at the Parramatta Gaol, causing damage estimated at nearly…

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Eight Dead French Asylum Fire a Christmas Disaster Paris

National Advocate · Tuesday 28 December 1937 · page 1

At least eight lives were lost in a fire during Christmas celebrations at Mont Redon lunatic asylum, near Le Puy…

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Marble Quarry Fire £2000 Damage Bush Fire Near Caloola Rockley

National Advocate · Thursday 30 December 1937 · page 1

A bush fire which broke out in he [?] practically destroyed the buildings machinery etc., at the marble quarry near Caloola on the…

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