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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1936

477 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 24

Kyogle Fire House Destroyed, Others Damaged

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 4

Damage estimated at over £900 was caused by a fire which at 2 a.m. on Wednesday destroyed a two-storey weatherboard house in Short street…

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£542,000 INSURANCE Goldsbrough, Mort's Fire 9000 Bales of Wool Undamaged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 5

With the payment to-day of £100,000 making a total payment of £542,000, the Associated Tariff Insurance Companies of Great Britain have practically…

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Firemen at Party When Fire Alarm Rang South Grafton Outbreak

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 4

A fire broke out in some outbuildings at the home of Mr. M. V. McNamara. Skinner street, South Graf- ton, at about 10.30 last night…

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Trapped in Sydney Fire Seven Men Escape Stenographer Carried Out Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 5

When the ground floor of a building in George street became enveloped in flames this afternoon, seven men and a stenographer, who…

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Big Grass Fires

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 9

For more than three hours on Wednesday night seven men fought an outbreak of fire over an area of five or six acres of hilly country…

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£40,000 BLAZE Two Firemen Injured Many Narrow Escapes Employees Rush Through Flames. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 4

Two firemen were injured and several employees had narrow escapes from being trapped by the flames when a fire practically gutted…

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Big Adelaide Fire £25,000 Damage. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 6

A spectacular fire to-day destroyed the barrel-making plant and office of R. Babidge and Sons, coopers, of Mile End. The damage, which was…

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Fire Insurances

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 January 1936 · page 2

At the December meeting of the P.P.U. Central Executive a resolution was carried to the effect that where loss occurs through fire on property…

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Mungindi Another Big Fire Seven Shops Gone Damage Estimated at £15,000 MUNGINDI

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 4

Seven shops were completely destroyed and five persons were injured directly and indirectly in a disastrous fire which was discovered…

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THE P.P. UNION Weekly Notes (Issued by authority of the Central Executive Council.) SYDNEY, January 21, 1936. Loss Payable Under Fire Insurance

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 January 1936 · page 3

At the December meeting of the Central Executive a resolution was carried to the effect that where loss occurs through fire on property covered by…

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Fire at Jetty Residence Destroyed While Family Is Absent

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 3

The whole town deeply sympathises with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Anderton, who lost their home and all their belongings except what they were wearing…

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Cottage Destroyed Coff's Harbor Jetty Fire. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 4

A weatherboard house owned and occupied by Mr. J. Anderton, in Camperdown street, Coff's Harbor Jetty, was destroyed, with its contents, soon…

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Fire at Gerards

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 4

A heap of old packing cases caught alight in the backyard of Gerards, Prince street, Grafton, about 5 p.m. yesterday, and the Grafton Fire…

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Sawmill Blaze

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 January 1936 · page 4

Paradise sawmills, at Staggy Creek, Inverell, were burned to the ground on Saturday, together with about 400 logs. The sawmills which are owned by Mr…

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Loss by Fire Payment Of Policies P.P.U. ACTIVITIES

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 January 1936 · page 1

At the December meeting of the Central Executive of the P.P. Union, a resolution was carried to the effect that where loss occurs through fire on…

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Fire in Sawmill

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 2

When several employees of the Bellinger River Timber Company arrived at the mill, Slingsby's road, on Saturday morning last to commence work…

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Near Taree First National forest Fire Safeguard

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 3

The first area of forest land to be declared a National Forest under the new Forestry Act is in the Coopernook-Lansdowne district, about 15…

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P.P.U. Notes Loss Payable Under Fire Insurance

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 4

At the December meeting of the Central Executive a resolution was carried to the effect that where loss occurs through fire ou property…

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Keeps an Inn Ishbel Macdonald Log Fires and Ingle Nooks Doing a Roaring Trade. London, January 11

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 11

Miss Ishbel Macdonald found herself in the thick of the week-end demand for tea and luncheon when she became licensee of the Old Plow Inn…

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Mine Holocaust 205 Dead in India Rescue Parties Perish Underground Colliery Fire London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 5

The "News-Chronicle's" Calcutta correspondent says that five Europeans and 200 Indians are reported to have perished in an underground…

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