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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1928

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Outbreak of Fire Reason for Descent London, August 3

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 August 1928 · page 2

Captain Courtney has sent a wireless message to his wife stating that he was forced down owing to an outbreak of fire. He deseribes it as the…

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Fire at Wollongong in Oil Company's Shed Two Men Detained Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 August 1928 · page 6

Following a fire at the Vacuum Oil Company's shed at North Wollongong, the police seized a number of cases in a house in the neighborhood and…

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Filming Village Fire Camera Men and Players Scorched and Burned Auckland (N Z.). August 4

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 August 1928 · page 2

During the production of a Maori film near Opotiki yesterday the director and two camera men received painful burns and some scantily clad Maori…

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Filming Village Fire Camera Men and Players Scorched and Burned Auckland (N.Z.), August 4

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 August 1928 · page 1

During the production of a Maori film near Opotiki yesterday the director and two camera men received painful burns and some scantily clad Maori…

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Inquest on Fire

Barrier Miner · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 2

At 1.30 a.m. on July 23 a motor car and the shed sheltering it at 661 Beryl-street were destroyed by fire. The cur was the property of Mr. James…

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South Australia Fire Damages Shop Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 1

Two shops at Colonel Light Garden[?] were damaged by fire early this morning. The contents, including groceries and smallgoods, were damaged to the…

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Inquest on Fire

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 August 1928 · page 2

The inquest to be conducted by Mr. R. C. Atkinson. S.M. and coroner, into the circumstances connected with the fire which destroyed a motor car and…

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"Hell Fire Corner"

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 1

Mr. J. R. Charlton, secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League, has received from a friend who has visited the battlefields of the Somme and…

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General Cables an Irish Mansion Destroyed by Fire London, August 9

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 1

Lord Cushendun's mansion on the Antrim coast (Ireland) has been destroyed by fire. It is recalled that Sinn Feinners previously destroyed…

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Fire at Port Adelaide Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 August 1928 · page 1

Shortly before 12 o'clock last night the Port Adelaide fire brigade received a call to Cowell Bros timber mills. The brigade found that the fire was…

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Fire at Port Adelaide Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 August 1928 · page 2

Shortly before 12 o'clock last night the Port Adelaide fire brigade received a call to Cowell Bros' timber mills. The brigade found that the fire was…

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Fire at Nuriootpa Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 August 1928 · page 1

At 8.45 p.m. on Monday Roy Mader reported that the electrical supplies and music shop of H. Wilson, at Nuriootpa, was on fire. A bucket…

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A California Fire Three Fatailties (A.p.a. Message.) Hedwood City (Col.), August 14

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 August 1928 · page 4

Mrs. Lena Koff her son Howard Koff, aged seven years, and Miss Heynan, a school teacher, were burnt to death on Tuesday when a fire destroyed the…

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General Store at Wlsin Is Destroyed by Fire Two Men Badly Burned Perth

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 August 1928 · page 1

Mr. J. A. Parrott's general store at Wubin was totally destroyed by fire last night, the damage amounting to £3000. The fire is said to have been…

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Fire in Wolfram-street

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 August 1928 · page 2

The Fire Brigade received a call this morning to a four-roomed wood and iron house situated at 323 Wolfram-street. The house, the owner…

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Fire in Zebina-street House and Contents Destroyed Last Night

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 August 1928 · page 2

A four-roomed weatherboard house situated at 281 Zebina-street, which was owned and occupied by Thomas Edward Cropley, was destroyed with…

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Fire in Zebina-street House and Contents Destroyed Last Night

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 August 1928 · page 1

A four-roomed weatherboard house situated at 281 Zebina-street, which was owned and occupied by Thomas Edward Cropley, was destroyed with…

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House Set on Fire Occupant Shot at Shortly Afterwards Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 August 1928 · page 2

William Gaskin, of Hilton, reported to the police last night that about 7.30 p.m. the curtains and blinds of the front room of his house had been…

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House Set on Fire Occupant Shot at Shortly Afterwards Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 August 1928 · page 1

William Gaskin, of Hilton, reported to the police last night that about 7.30 p.m. the curtains and blinds of the front room of his house had been…

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Queensland Tragedy Bones of Man Found in Ashes of a Camp Fire Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 August 1928 · page 1

A detective has reached Cloncurry by kirplane from Charleville to assist in the investigation of the murder of a man named George Miller, whose horse…

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