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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1937

288 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 15

Burnt to Death 20 Draught Horses Trapped In Stables Melbourne Fire Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 5

Trapped in their loose boxes, 20 draught horses were burned to death when fire destroyed the stables of L. Arthur, contractor, in Cremorne…

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Tree on Fire

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 4

At a few minutes before 8 o'clock on Monday night the services of the Armidale fire brigade were required to quell a fire which was consuming…

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Big Loss in Wiangaree Fire

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 10

Damage estimated at several hundreds of pounds was caused on Friday afternoon last by a fire which gutted the home of Mr. and Mrs. V. Williams,…

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False Alarm Fire at Box Mill Excitement in the Rain

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 1

While the rain was pelting down on Wednesday afternoon, about 2 o'clock, there was an alarm of fire Messrs Gregor…

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Bush Fires In West Australia Widespread Losses. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 5

Devastating bush fires which have swept territory between Denmark and the Deep River, which empties into Nornalup Inlet, since Wednesday…

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Bush Fires in W.A. Damage More Than £20,000 public Fund Opened. Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 5

More than 1500 people have suffered as a result of raging bush fires in the Denmark district, west of Albany, and many miles of settled land have been…

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800 Perish Fire Horror Manchurian Holocaust In Primitive Theatre Candle Causes Fire Thirty Houses Destroyed. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 5

A theatric, built of wood and plaster, and crammed with 1500 people, caught fire at Antung, Manchuria, to-day, and at least 800…

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£10,000 FIRE Sydney Furniture Store Good Save Effected. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 5

Furniture and carpets valued at £10,000 were destroyed by a fire which broke out on the second floor of Bear and Company's furniture warehouse,…

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Fire on Mail Truck

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 10

A fire broke out in Mr. C. Adams motor mail truck on Saturday morning two mail bags being partially destroyed, says an Inverell message. Owing to…

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Fire Board Ald. Griffin Holds Country Seat. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 February 1937 · page 4

Ald. T. D. Mutch, Of Double Bay, was to-day re-elected to the Board of Fire Commissioners, as representative of the city and suburban municipalities…

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£1000 DAMAGE Fire In Sydney Danger From Explosions. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 5

Following an explosion a fierce fire broke out in a three-storeyed building in Bulletin Place, city, to-night, and caused damage amounting to £1000…

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For Plane Search Near Glenreagh Fire In Range Reports to Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 4

Three reports have been received from Constable Marsh, of Woolgoolga, of a plane having been seen and heard between 3 and 5. o'clock on…

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Fire Board Election

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 1

Aid. M. J. Griffin, of Bathurst, was re-elected to the N.S.W. Fire Board to represent the country. Aid. W. T. Robinson, of Grafton, was a…

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Stay-in Strike Miners In Hungary Gendarmes Fire on Crowd. Budapest

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 5

Gendarmes killed two and wounded three when they fired a volley into a group, of miners and women demonstrating in support of a stay-in mine…

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Fire Brigade Team for Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 4

A team representing the Grafton Fire Brigade leaves to-day for Tamworth to take part in the annual fire brigade demonstrations from Tuesday, March 2,…

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Fire at Lismore Building Destroyed. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 4

A fire broke out in a weatherboard building at the rer of the Killclare Guest House in Keen street, Lismore, at 1.30, p.m. to-day. The building was…

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Mill Sawdust Fire

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 2

Julian Fowler Pldcock, mill man ager, was fined £7 10s and, £2 17s 4d costs at Grafton Police Court in con nection with a sawdust fire at his…

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Sawdust Fire Mill Manager Fined Case From Nymboida

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 2

Before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., in the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, Julian Fowler Pidcock, of Nymboida, was proceeded against by the…

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Fire Brigades Display at Tamworth. Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 2

Great interest was taken to-day in a display by more than 600 volunteer Firemen From all parts of the State. The Dennis motor engine event was…

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Spectacular Car Blaze

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 2

At a late hour on Thursday night of last week (reports Macleay "Argus") Mr. J. Baldwin, of Smithtown, drove his large service car from H…

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