FIRE! Brigade's Good Save Blaze in Moonee Street
A remarkably good save was made fay Coffs Fire Brigade on Sunday night, when a fire broke out in a very old weatherboard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1936
477 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 24
Fire at Coff's Harbor Building Gutted Sunday Night Blaze. Coff's Harbor
At 10.25 last night, Mr. Ernie Kidd was walking past the premises, in Moonee street, Coff's Harbor, occupied by Mr. C. Cook, furniture dealer, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Explosion and Fire Petrol in Hurricane Lamp. Melbourne
The accidental filling of a hurffcane lamp with petrol instead of kerosene caused, a heavy explosion on a farm at Whittlesea North last night, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →By Ring of Fire Smashed! Abyssinian Resistance On Northern Front Losses Total 3000 in Second Tembien Battle London
In a bulletin issued at Rome, the Italians claim to have successfully surmounted the climax of the northern campaign, having broken up,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Year Sydney Fire Brigades. Sydney
During last year fire brigades in Sydney answered 5065 calls. This is a record, the previous highest being 4476 in 1928. Expenditure during last year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →80 FIREMEN Fight Big Fire Newtown Drapery Store Thousands of Pounds Damage. Sydney
Fire gutted the big drapery store of Sweet Brothers, in King street, Newtown, this afternoon. The damage to the big stocks of drapery and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Dorrigo. Dorrigo
Fire destroyed a house and contents belonging to Mr. George Hall, at Leigh Road. The furniture was partly covered by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires Seaside Homes Menaced. Melbourne
Since Sunday morning, severe bush fires have been raging on Mornington Peninsula and, despite gallant efforts by hundreds of fire-fighters, both men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£50,000 DAMAGE Fire At Footscray Many Narrow Escapes. Melbourne
Believed to have been caused by the fusing of electric wires on a carding machine a fire this morning destroyed a felt factory of the Federal Felters Pty.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Box Hill Bush Fires Were They Wilfully Started? Melbourne
The allegation that Stanley Gee, confectioner, and part-time fireman, started the bush fires at Box Hill was made at the Box Hill Court to-day when Gee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire
A cottage on Mr. Nelson's farm near Leigh and occupied by Mr. George Hall was destroyed by fire during the early hours of Saturday morning last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Outbreak in Victoria Checked By Wind And Rain Damage Estimated at £12,000 MELBOURNE
The greater number of the bush fires which have devastated thousands of acres of grass land throughout Victoria, causing damage estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire
A five-roomed weatherboard cottage occupied by Mrs. Schneider and family, in Shirley lane, Byron Bay, was destroyed by fire, on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney's Record Fire Year
During last year the fire brigades m Sydney answered 5065 calls. This is a record, the previous highest total being 4476 in 1928. During 1934 the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →51 Killed Lynchings in Spain Bishop's Palace Burned Police Fire on Mob Madrid
The most savage and barbaric rioting since the elections occurred at Jumilla to-day, where five Fascists, who were imprisoned for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires in Victoria
A correspondent writes: With the rain relentlessly pouring down upon our North Coast we should be able to realise the vastness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →200 CHINESE Die In Theatre Fire Disaster Near Tientsin. Pekin
More than 200 people, including 14 players, lost their lives when fire destroyed a theatre in a village 20 miles south of Tientsin, to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →3 A.M. Fire South Grafton House Destroyed, With Contents Adjoining Residence Saved
About three o'clock on Sunday morning an outbreak of fire occurred in a house in Skinner street, South Grafton, owned by Mr. P. Howley,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →&35,000 FIRE Ballarat Theatre Destroyed Largest in Australia. Ballarat
The Coliseum Theatre was destroyed by fire to-day and the adjoining buildings, including the Athenaeum Theatre, were badly damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Under Fire Federal Treasurer Bank Interest Rates C'wealth and Trading Banks Canberra
The Treasurer, Mr. Casey, was called upon in the House of Representatives to-day to answer many questions relating to the increase in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →