£20,000 DAMAGE Blaze At Waverley Timber Yards Destroyed. Sydney
Valuable machinery and timber valued at £20,000 were destroyed by a fire which broke out at Beat Bros timber yards, Henrietta street…
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Fires & bushfires, 1937
288 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 15
£10,000 Damage Fire in Macrobertson's Factory. Melbourne
A fire which broke out in a storeroom at MacRobertson's confectionery factory at Fitzroy caused damage roughly estimated at £10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigades Attended 4946 Calls Report for Year. Sydney
During 1936 the fire brigades of New South Wales attended 4946 calls, compared with the record number of 5032 last year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Damage Pitt Street Fire 14 Brigades Called Out Seven Storey Building Ablaze Sydney
A spectacular blaze which attracted thousands of spectators and called into action 14 brigades, occurred shortly before 10 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Park Beach Fire Campers Threatened
Campers from about sixty camps at Park Beach were disturbed on Wednesday afternoon by a bush Are that came In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in W.A. £7500 Damage in Country Town. Perth
Practically the whole of the business centre of the small wheat-belt town of Bruce Rock was destroyed by fire to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →False Fire Alarm
The Grafton Fire Brigade received a call from the Grafton Drill Hall fire alarm about 7.15 o'clock last night. The engine raced to the scene followed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nearly Trapped Five Persons in W.A. Fire. Perth
During a fire which practically wiped out the main street at Bruce Rock yesterday, five persons had narrow escapes when trapped by fire in the rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Coff's Harbor Weatherboard Cottage Destroyed. Coff's Harbor
Damage estimated at £700 was done when the weatherboard cottage owned and occupied by Mr. Max. Cameron, and situated about 200 yards from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shops Destroyed Fire Caused by Rats. Henty
Rats are held, responsible for a case of fire which-destroyed three shops in Ivor street this morning. The loss is estimated at £2500…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Park Beach Fire Cottage Destroyed
Mr. Max Cameron's cottage and conteats were destroyed by fire at Park Beach at midnight on Tuesday last. The fire bell rang and the brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arms Felt As If on Fire Nights of Agony With Neuritis
She had tried so many "remedies" —always without result-that she had little faith in anything. But finally something induced her to try…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dorrigo Homestead Destroyed by Fire. Dorrigo
Fire last night destroyed a fiveroomed homestead on Mr. Harry Short's farm. The building was insured, but the content were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Dorrigo
The five-room homestead on Mr. H. T. Short's farm at Dorrigo was destroyed by fire last Friday night, with the contents. The building was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aircraft Carrier Fire in Boiler Room. London
Fire broke out in the boiler room of the aircraft carrier Furious at Devonport dockyard. It was quickly extinguished. The Admiralty was not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Forest Fire 150,000 Young Trees Destroyed. Melbourne
A fire, which was believed to have been wilfully caused, destroyed 150,000 young trees and threatened 6,000,000 others on the State pine plantation of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burnt Alive 100 Train Passengers Fire On Canton Express Carriages Blazing Inferno Canton
More than one hundred are believed to have been burned to death to-day when a fire broke out on the Kowloon-Canton express. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Huge Melbourne Fire £520,000 Damage Vic. Govt. Cool Stores Huge Loss In Produce Ship Set Ablaze at Wharf Melbourne
One of the most disastrous fires Melbourne has seen swept through the Government cool stores at Victoria dock this afternoon, causing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dock Fire a Fresh Outbreak Damage About £300,000 Heavy Insurances Melbourne
Twenty-five firemen had to fight desperately, early this morning, when a change in the wind started a fresh outbreak of flames at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Welshmen Sentenced At Old Bailey Air Force Camp Fire. London
Seven hundred Welshmen arrived in London by special train to-day to attend the retrial of three Welsh Nationalists --Professor Saunders Lewis. Rev. Lewis…
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