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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1927

575 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 29

Watch Survives Fire

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 June 1927 · page 4

Mrs. Annie Urban, who has suffered a severe loss through lier dwelling house being burnt down at Toowoomba, searched among the debris in the hope of…

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Vicious Thieves Set Fire to Pillaged Houses Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 June 1927 · page 4

Thieves, disappointed at getting too little booty, deliberately set fire to two houses which were considerably damared before the flames were extinguished. The…

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Burned to Death Two Men In Tent Tragedy at Canberra Camp Fire Starts Blaze. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 June 1927 · page 5

Two men, Samuel Palmer, 55, and Alexander Beveridge, 55, were burned to death in a fire which broke out in a tent at Canberra early yesterday…

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Big Blaze Averted

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 4

But for the promptitude of the Tweed Heads Fire Brigade there is no reason to doubt that the fire which broke out in J. A. Blanchard's newsagency and…

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Playing with Fire Children in Tank Shocking Tragedy at Young. Young

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 4

A shocking tragedy occurred at Young yesterday. James Barnett, aged 6 years, and Richard Spark, aged 5, started a fire in a…

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Fires at Casino

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 June 1927 · page 4

An alarm of fire at 7.45 on Saturday night in Casino attracted a large crowd to premises-.situated in Convent lane, off Colches street, where a fire was burning…

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Melbourne Blaze Plaster Works on Fire. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 5

A fire broke out in the Victoria Electric Plaster Company's extensive works Kensington. After the fire brigades had suppressed the flames traces were…

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Fire Outbreak

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 2

Yesterday Mr. Frank Wingfield's home behind the public school was discovered to be on fire by Mr. Ben Pullen, who promptly communicated…

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Tar Boiler on Fire

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 4

A portable tar boiler being used on bitumenous macadam construction work by the Murwillumbah Municipal Council on the Byangum road boiled over on…

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Park Beach Fire. Open Verdict Recorded

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 1

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., as District Coroner, held an inquiry at the courthouse on Wednesday into the cause of the fire that destroyed T. J…

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Incendiarism? Four Outbreaks of Fire. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 June 1927 · page 5

Four separate outbreaks of fire were discovered at the premises of the Victorian Electric Plaster Mills proprietary Limited, at Kensington…

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Telegrams Bush Fire Victim. Yass

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 June 1927 · page 2

The death has occurred of Thomas Egan, was severely burned when bush fires raged in this district last December and who had been an inmate of Yass…

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Timber Fires Comment by Coroner. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 4

The coroner after, a hearing extending over 19 days, held that fires which occurred at Broadmarsh in February and destroyed a large quantity of timber…

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Fire at Bellingen Picture Show

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 4

While the picture programme was being run through at the Memorial Hall, Bellingen, on Monday night, a small piece of film caught in the gate of the…

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Fire Board's Visit

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 2

The Fire Commissioners visited Coffs Harbor yesterday afternoon and had a look over the fire station. There were no complaints and only…

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Fire Epidemic at Townsville

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 4

Three fires occurred between 8 o'clock on Sunday night and 4 o'clock on Sunday morning. At 8 p. m. an outbreak occurred in a cottage of five rooms, at…

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Increased Fire Insurance Premiums

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 7

The effect of several increases in working expenses, such as wages, cartage, workers' compensation insurance, etc., is felt immediately by manufacturing and…

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Fire at Bellingen Picture Show

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 2

While the picture programme was being run through at the Memorial Hall, Bellingen, oil Monday night, a small piece of film caught in the gate of the…

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Fire Board's Visit Dorrigo Brigade Complimented

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 2

Several members of the Board of Fire Commissioners of N.S.W., accompanied by representatives of the Fire Insurance Companies' Assn…

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Fire at Pictures. 1000 Feet of Film Destroyes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 2

While the pictue programme was being run through at the Memorial Hall last night, says the "Courier," Bellingen, a small piece of film got…

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