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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
241 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 13
A cottage, in Queen street, Grafton, occupied by Mr. John H. Hayes and his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Hayes, and family, was severely damaged by a fire, which broke out during their absence on New Year's Eve…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A decision to open a subscription list at Grafton, amounting to approximately £150, to assist Mr. John Hayes, of Queen street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Thurs.—"Russia should know there is not one man in the democracies who wants another war anywhere, yet Russia is playing with fire," says the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Friday.—Smashed trucks and bent and blackened debris of burnt-out ammunition surround the two great craters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TAMWORTH, Sun.—Sweeping through 60,000 acres of grassland, a bush fire, which began at Spring Ridge on Friday and was brought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Mon.—A bush fire which is sweeping all before it, is threatening one of Queensland's most valuable hardwood forests…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire which started at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning last and broke out afresh when wind fanned some embers into a blaze,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CHUNGKING, Thursday.—Although it was stated earlier to-day there was a hitch in peace negotiations between the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Thurs.—Bush and grass fires flared up in many parts of the State to-day, when high temperatures were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DORRIGO, Fri.—Fire completely destroyed the residence occupied by R. Gorrie, in Myrtle street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE, Sun.—After a big fight by brigades from several stations firemen at the end of an hour's effort gained control of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Exhausted residents at the small South Coast township of Wolumla, 15 miles from Bega, who have been battling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Sunday,—A big squad of fire-fighters remained on patrol duty to-day at Darra, 10 miles from the city, where,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Mon.—A letter to President Hindenburg from one of Roehm's assistants implicates Goering and Goebbels in setting lire to the Reichstag in February. 1933, says an American Associated Press report from Munich…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Special pontoons to carry water for extinguishing small and inaccessible forest fires are part of the equipment of a new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—William Charles Gourlay (34), married, with tea children, admitted he started 22 fires in Braidwood in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Wed.—Fires which have been raging throughout the National Park since yesterday afternoon, destroyed thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sun.—About £30,000 worth of damage was done to the International Harvester Co., early this morning, when a fire gutted the premises. The Chief Fire Officer of the metropolitan area (Mr. Barber)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CLEVELAND, Sun.—Twelve persons were killed in a fire which swept a one-storey residence for aged men and women…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Mon.—Fires are burning in Bundeena National Park area of some hundred square miles. Late to-night the Bundeena…
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