Nearly a Fire
During the boisterous winds last week the house occupied by Mr. Carroll at Kendall had a narrow escape from destruction by fire. While waiting…
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Fires & bushfires, 1931
418 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 13 of 21
New Zealand Fire. Wellington (N.z.)
A fire which broke out in a building in Featherstone street last night burned out several firms and caused damage estimated at nearly £10,000…
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The second serious fire in the town within 24 hours occurred early this morning when the railway station was gutted. Yesterday the fine did extensive damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forest Fires in U.S.A. Vast Areas Devastated New York
Forest fires arc devastating vast areas of timber lands in the four western States. The fires raged over 50,000 acres in Wyoming. Two thousand live hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Tragedy Aged People's Home Twenty-seven Dead 217 Injured in Hospital. Vancouver
Twenty-seven persons are known to be dead, 20 are missing, and 217 are in hospital as a result of a fire which destroyed the home for the aged of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Hospital Nurses Jump From Windows Seven Injured. Wellington (N.z.)
Thirty nurses were trapped by flames when their quarters at Bowen street private Hospital caught fire to-day. They awoke to find the staircase a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire Sawmill Near Dorrigo 60,000 Feet of Timber Gone. Doerigo
Fire completely destroyed the sawmill at Cascade yesterday afternoon. The mill was owned by Earp, Woodcock and Beveridge and Co., of Newcastle. Gallant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pigeon Hero Death of War-time Carrier Flew Through Shell Fire.-- Victim to Cat
"Rupert.'' one of the most famous of Britain's war-time carrier pigeons, is dead. Since the Armistice he had been living a life of ease at Twickenham, but he grew…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire at Cascade Earp, Woodcock, Beveridge & Co's Mill Razed Big Stocks of Timber Also Consumed
Messrs. Earp, Woodcock, Beveridge and Co's mill at Cascade and a huge quantity of limber were destroyed by fire on Wednesday afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Our Greatest Disaster' Lang Worse Than Droughts, Fires And Floods Fifty Thousand People in the Domain Weaver's Fierce Attack Upon Premier Organised Interruption Fails to Stop Speaker Sydney
Undaunted by organised interruption on a particularly large scale, Mr. Weaver and other Nationalist members of the Legislative Assembly held a great meeting in the Sydney Domain this afternoon. A crowd estimated at between 50,000 and 60,000--almost as large as that…
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The damage done by the fire that destroyed Earp, Woodcock and Beveridge's sawmill and timber at Cascade last week is estimated at £9,000 to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petrol Fire at Motor Service Station. Sydney
A fierce fire occurred at a Mosman petrol-filling station last night. Flames spread rapidly when a motor car which was being supplied with petrol burst into…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£10,000 GONE Kyogle's Big Fire School of Arts--five Shops Fifth Big Outbreak Since 1927. LISMORE
Damage estimated at £10,000 was done by fire in the main street of Kyogle at 2 o'clock this morning when the School of Arts and five…
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Kyogle's fine School or Arts and five business places were destroyed by fire early last Tuesday morning. Kyogle has no fire brigade and buc[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suspicious Circumstances Randwick Hospital Fire. Sydney
An outbreak of lire in the small post office at the Prince of males Hospital, Randwick, last night, caused considerable damage to fittings and documents…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dorrigo Fire Brigade Wants New Plant Discussion at Chamber of Commerce Meeting
Inferring that the Dorrigo Fire Brigade s fire fighting plant had outlived its usefulness and should either be relegated to the scrap heap or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Waste Heavy New Zealand Losses. Auckland
To check the causes of fire waste in New Zealand, which, in the last five years, totalled £6.048,482, the Minister for Internal Affairs (Mr. de Laparrelle)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nambour Fire Child In Mattress Dropped Oyer Balcony Two Trapped in Flames. Brisbane
When fire destroyed a Nambour boarding house late last night, the proprietor, Mr. J. Scanlon, trapped by the flames on the top floor, wrapped…
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Dorrigo' wants a new fire engine—one that will propel itself to fires instead of having to be dragged, there. It must have been a big job dragging…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Midnight Blaze at South Lismore
A fire which had a good hold before the fire brigade arrived destroyed a sevenroomed weatherboard house and its contents in Casino-street, South Lismore, a…
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