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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1938

174 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 9

Fire Damage at Chalet Was £30,000 Tourists Leaving For Homes SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 August 1938 · page 1

BECAUSE of the destruction by fire of the chalet at Charlotte Pass, Mount. Kosciusko (as first reported…

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Fire Brigade Is Strengthened

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 August 1938 · page 3

With the arrival in Broken Hill yesterday afternoon of First-Class Fireman Perry and Second-Class Fireman Moyes, the staff of the…

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Seven Years' Gaol For Setting Fire to Hotel

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 7

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), August 18. —An admission that she had set fire to the Waipiro Bay Hotel while a woman she did not like was inside…

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News in Brief Fire Pestroys Premises

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.Damage, estimated at several thousand pounds waa done to the Century Storage Battery Company's premises in…

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Fireman Temporarily Blinded in Fire

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 August 1938 · page 6

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Overcome by smoke and sulphur fumes in a fire at the Central Storage Battery Co. Ltd., Alexandria, Fireman Edgar…

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Fire Damage in Shop Occupant Unable To Open Door; Window Forced

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 August 1938 · page 3

ARRIVING at his hamburger shop in Oxide-street at noon today, Mr. Ronald Yourn was unable to open the front door and finally forced a.window…

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Another Crisis for France? Political Fires Flaring "Nerves of Europe Still on Edge" (Special to "The Miner") LONDON. August 22

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 August 1938 · page 3

GRAVE fears are expressed that France may be faced with another crisis at the very moment when the europin situation demands her internal stability. Airain political fires have flared up as a result of the…

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Stirring Days Of Early Broken Hill Argent-st. Fire Recalled

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 4

STIORIES of the stirring days of early Broken Hill were recalled by Mr. A. H. Miles, of Dunedin, New Zealand, who visited Broken Hill from Adelaide on his way to Sydney. Mr. Miles may be remembered by very old…

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Set Fire to House Farmer Remand For Sentence Tailem Bend

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 6

Before Messrs. W. Tiller and J. A. Ramsay, Henry Francis Smelt, a farmer of Sherlock, was charged with having on August 26, maliciously set…

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Alsatians Again Under Fire

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 September 1938 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Vaucluse Council decided last night to ask the Director-General of Public Health to take the necessary action against the…

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Fire Damage at North House

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 3

A call was received by the Central Fire Brigade at 8.30 o'clock this morning to a four-roomed wood and iron cottage at 577 Blende-street,…

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Boy Leaps From FlFTH FLOOR Fire In Hotel Causes Panic SYDJIEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 September 1938 · page 3

FIRE broke Out on the fourth floor of the Wentworth Hotel late last night and spread quickly to the fifth floor and roof…

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Fire at Hospital

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 September 1938 · page 2

The Central Fire Brigade received a call to the nurses quarters at the Hospital at 12.14 p.m. today through the telephone exchange. The brigade…

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Couple Awakened But Fire Destroys Cottage

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 September 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Charles William Jacobson and his wife were asleep in their cottage in Foy-street, Balmain late last night when they…

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Fire Station Dance

Barrier Miner · Saturday 1 October 1938 · page 6

The Fire Station will be a scene of gaiety on Tuesday night when the riremen will stage a grand novelty dance. Dancing, which will be from…

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Two Fire Brigade Calls

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 October 1938 · page 3

Two calls were received last night by the Central Fire Brigade to small fires. The first, received at 7.14 p.m., was to a taxi in Blende-street…

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Slight Damage by Fire Near Theatre

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 October 1938 · page 2

Noticing smoke near the oil tanks in the railway yard at the rear of the Ozone Theatre on Sunday afternoon the Fire Brigade investigated and…

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Bush Fires in Victoria

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— A timber mill a boarding house, two homes, and several workmen's huts were destroyed in bush fires at Moe,…

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Girl's Death in Fire Couple Rebuked By Jury

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 5

"I cannot think it right and proper for children of such tender years to be left alone. I do not think any responsible parent could be guilty of…

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Fire on Bridge

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 October 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—A small fire in the planking of the Hawkesbury Bridge last night was extinguished by the engine crew of the 7.27 train…

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