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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1934

316 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 16

Woman Tells Alleged Fire Fraud £2000 Insurance Case Charge at Bow Street. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 November 1934 · page 5

Miss Lilian Barnes, an attractive looking woman, occupied the box for almost the whole day, on the resumption, to-day of the hearing of…

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£10,000 Damage Fire at Tuggerah Lakes Residents Fight Flames. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 November 1934 · page 4

Originating in the public hall, a fire threatened the main shopping centre of The Entrance. Tuggerah Lakes, early this, morning. Hundreds of residents, working…

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From Sydney Fire Brigade Got Permission to Attend Tuggerah Fire. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 November 1934 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Baddeley (Lab., Cessnock), alleged that when the lire occurred at Tuggerah Lakes, yesterday morning, the Gosford…

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Murwillumbah Fire Bells

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1934 · page 4

Barely 12 hours after the installation of alarm bells in the residences of Murwillumbah firemen had been completed, they were given their first real test as a…

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Fire in Workshop Due to Spontaneous Combustion

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1934 · page 4

Believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion in a rubbish heap nearby, a fire early yesterday morning caused slight damage to the engineering…

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Bangalow Fire

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 November 1934 · page 4

An outbreak of fire in the rear portion of the Bangalow School of Arts, a two- storey building which also houses the Bangalow post office, was extinguished…

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Lismore Fire

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 November 1934 · page 8

Smart work by the Lismore Fire Brigade prevented a fire which broke out in the bulk storeroom of Mowing's grocery shop, South Lismore, on Friday night…

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Five Shops Gutted Fire at Uralla

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 November 1934 · page 4

Two brick chimneys, standing amid a heap of twisted iron, and smouldering timbers and debris, a badly scorched pine tree, and the. smoke and fire blackened…

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Early Morning Blaze Unoccupied Cottage Destroyed South Grafton Fire Brigade Busy

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 November 1934 · page 4

The South Grafton Fire Brigade, in full force, responded to a call early yesterday morning, and quickly extinguished a fire which practically destroyed a…

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Memorial Hall £6000 Fire in S.A. ADELAIDE

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 November 1934 · page 5

A fire at the Port Lincoln Institute and Soldiers' Memorial Hall this morning, caused damage estimated at £6000. The library and offices of the Town Clerk and…

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Fainted When Discovered Fire

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 November 1934 · page 4

Mrs. Phyllis Bashford, of No. 3 off Perkin street, Newcastle, was so shocked to discover fire had broken out in a bedroom on the upper storey of her home on…

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Suspicious Fire at Gloucester

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 November 1934 · page 7

Although considerable damage was done, a splendid, save was made by local fire-fighters at Gloucester on Thursday night, when a blaze occurred at the Star…

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Late Coramba Fire

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 30 November 1934 · page 1

The shire council at Wednesday's meeting decided to contribute £s towards the cost of the visit of Coffs Harbour Fire Brigade to the recent…

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London Fire Flames Visible 60 Miles Away Biggest Outbreak for Years London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 5

Fifty-two motor pumps and 300 firemen waged a most energetic conflict on a fire in Golden lane, where a clothing warehouse caught fire…

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Hair Catches Fire

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 December 1934 · page 7

Mrs. E. Lindsay was drying her hair in front of a radiator at her home at Mullumbimby on Thursday when a comb of celluloid composition caught alight. Her…

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Fire at Fairy Hill

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 December 1934 · page 4

Damage estimated at £600 was caused, by a fire which gutted the five-roomed weatherboard residence of John Thomas Vidler, a dairy farmer, near Farly Hill…

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CONSPIRACY To Help Hitler the Reichstag Fire Storm Trooper's Confession Sensational Document. Paris

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 December 1934 · page 5

"Le Journal'' prints a document entitled. "How I fired the Reichstag," signed by Karl Ernst (ex-leader of the storm troops, who was…

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Set Fire to Church

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 December 1934 · page 8

At Maitland Quarter Sessions on Tuesday Peter Gustavo Black, 18, Adrian James Wilson Black, 16, James Alexander Stone, 15, and Keith Kline, 16, were…

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Fire at North Dorrigo

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 December 1934 · page 2

A fire made a clean sweep of the home of Mr. and Mrs George H. Ross, North Dorrigo, and the whole of its contents at about 10.30 last night…

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£85 Damages Collision at Wollongbar Smoke From Grass Fire. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 December 1934 · page 2

When a collision occurred on the Lismore-Ballina road, at Wollongbar, on October 25 last, a car driven by Alfred Andrew Lindsay was almost wrecked. The…

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