Earthquake Wrecks N.Z. Towns. More Than 100 People Known to Be Dead Death Roll May Be Much Heavier Napier and Hastings Reported in Ruins Oil Tanks Brust -- Great Fire At Napier Buildings Swayed and Fell Like Cards Panic-stricken People Rush Into Streets Houses Slide Into Harbor Auckland
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 5
New Zealand is horror-stricken by the appalling earthquake which demolished the cities of Napier and Hastings this morning, causing heavy loss of life, the full extent of which cannot yet be estimated. More than 100 are known to be dead…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy and Girl Trapped by Bush Fire. Perth
Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 4
At Margaret River, Ida Lynn, 9, and her brother Jim, 13, were trapped by a bush fire while walking home from school. The girl was fatally burned and the boy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£100,000 Fire At Charleville Hotel and 15 Shops Flames Leap Main Street. Brisbane
Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 4
Buildings on both sides of the street in the main business centre of Charleville were gutted by fire last night, a hotel and 15 shops being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.Z. Earthquake Disaster 400 Now Believed To Be Dead More Than Two Thousand Persons Injured Fire Still Burning In Napier Buildings Blown Up to Check Flames 28 Boys Killed in Falling School Auckland
Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 5
The latest estimate of the dead in the earthquake at Hastings and Napier is 400. The correspondent of the "New Zealand Herald" reports there are 250 dead at Napier and 150 at Hastings. In addition there are numbers of persons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Right Sort of Fire Break
The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 6
A Mudgee farmer's original was of saving property and life. He top dresses a 40ft. strip of each paddock alongside the fences. This brings a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Insurance
Daily Examiner · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 2
Mr. J. J. Kissane, the well-known Casino Solicitor, writes to the Casino papers as follows: "Some time ago I had occasion to contribute something to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Shocks Fires Restart At Napier Hills Supping Into Sea Insurance Companies', Position. Auckland
Daily Examiner · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 3
It is now believed the death, roll will total 220. The girm list was added to today, when six more bodies, terribly mangled, were recovered from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kyogle Fire Menace
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 4
At the meeting of the Kyogle [?] of Commerce last week, Mr. Mitchell referred to the necessity of providing the town with some form of fire-fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Boys Dead Tragic Fire at Cessnock. Cessnock
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 5
Two of the four boys who were badly burned when a fire broke out in an undertaker's storeroom on Sunday, died yesterday. They were Ray Barringham, 12,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →INCINERATED 4 MEN 80 Horses Terrible Fire at Horse Show. Oakland (California)
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 5
At least four men were too badly burned for identification and over 80 fine horses, valued at half a million dollars were killed when a fire destroyed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Destroys Grandstand
Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4
A fire destroyed the wooden grandstand at the Alstonville Agricultural Society's showground about 11.30 o'clock on Tuesday night. The flames attracted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Set House on Fire
Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4
Frederick Salisbury Reid Faithful (aged 18) pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court at Townsville to having, on November 18, 1930, wilfully and un'awfully…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seven Mile Front Destructive Grabs Fires. Crookwell
Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5
The fire which started on Sydney Kensit's property, at Kingaloola, spread to a number of other properties and eventually covered a front of seven miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coraki Fire Sensational Evidence Open Verdict Returned. Lismore
Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5
At the inquiry at Coraki into the fire which, on January 28, destroyed the residence of G.W.T. Yabsley, the Coroner returned an open verdict after hearing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cartridge Discharged by Fire
Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 4
John Hudson, employed by Mr. C. McGrath, of Bungil, was engaged in burning rubbish when a live rifle cartridge that was in the fire exploded, and the bullet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Tyndale
Daily Examiner · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 2
At an early hour yesterday morning, the residence known as "Cambridge Park," the property of Mr. C. W. Rayner, of Tyndale, had a narrow escape…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Fire Cottage Destroyed at Dorrigo. Dorrigo
Daily Examiner · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 2
A cottage, together with the contents was destroyed by fire last night on Mr. E. E. Devine's farm at whisky Creek. The property was only lightly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Outbreak
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 2
A fire outbreak that might have developed into a very serious conflagration had it got going, occurred about eight o'clock on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air Force Vigilance in Forest Fires
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 4
Several bush fires occurred in various parts of Victoria on Thursday and Friday, but no serious damage is reported. Two Wapiti aeroplanes, piloted by officers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Safeblowers Fire at Morpeth Store. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 5
Safeblowers who made an attempt on the safe at Styman Bros., general storekeepers, of Morpeth, about noon yesterday set fire to the premises. Before the…
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