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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1937

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Fire in Film House £12,000 Damage Explosion Touch and Go

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 May 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: A fire broke out this morning on the eighth floor of Film House, Pitt Street, containing Sidney…

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Nerves? Guard Lost His Head Opened Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 17 May 1937 · page 5

MOSCOW, Sunday: An eighteen-year-old watchman, forgetting to demand the password when a squad of Red Army soldiers entered the flying…

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New Fire Escape

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 2

LONDON: Hull's (England) 150ft. turntable fire escape, the highest in the British Empire, was brought into action for the first time at a…

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Lote Lehmann Sleeps Beside Fire

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 4

The Canberra fog on Tuesday night and a temperature five degrees below freezing point, compelled the Viennese soprano, Madame Lotte…

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Three Calls Fire Brigade Has Busy Week-end

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 7

The Goulburn Fire Brigade received three calls over the week-end, being summoned to two chimney fires, and one grass fire, although in each…

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Room Used for Betting Defendant Fined £10 Was There a Fire in the Fireplace?

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 1

Cecil Joseph Grosvenor (32) was fined £10, costs of search warrant 8/, in the Court yesterday, by Mr. W. F. Britz, P.M.,…

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Big Blaze Fire in Sample Rooms Quantity Of Sugar Destroyed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 2

Although the Commercial Hotel sample rooms in Lead Street were left standing, the building was practically destroyed by fire…

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In Demand Gas Fires For Heating Sale of Cas Appliances

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 4

In a report to the Municipal Council last Tuesday night, Mr. C. J. Foran, manager of the gas-works, stated among other things: The…

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Fire at Collector Hotel

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 4

Fire broke out in a shed at the rear of the Collector Hotel and housing the petrol engine which generated electricity for…

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Trapped by Fire Gallant Rescue 12 Persons' Close Call

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 2 June 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Trapped by fire, twelve people in the upper floors of the Lyceum building in Pitt…

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Fire at Collector Hotel

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 June 1937 · page 2

A fire broke out at the rear of the historic Collector Hotel on Monday night. It is thought the fire started in a shed housing a petrol engine…

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Fire Escapes in City Buildings

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Alderman O'Dea, of the City Council, alleged to-day that the council had held up plans to enforce the provision of a…

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"Jumping Into The Oven" Fijian Fire-walkers

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 9

"Vilavilarevo," or—in English—"Jumping into the Oven," is the name given to the mysterious and most interesting fire-walking ceremony which…

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Hoyts Ritz "Fire Over England"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 3

Motion picture producers are more and more delving into British history for suitable film subjects, and they are proving outstanding successes…

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Baradine Fire Damage Amounts To £1000

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 5

BARADINE, Tuesday: Damage estimated at £1000 was done by a fire which destroyed Pinchan Bros. garage in the main street at Baradine…

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Fire at a Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 5

DUNEDOO, Friday: The stationmaster's office, the parcels office and the waiting room at the local railway station were destroyed by fire early…

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Fire in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 July 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday: A fire broke out early this morning in the premises of the Quality Sweets manufacturing Company at Annandale. Fortunately…

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Fire Brigade Returns

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 7

During the half-year ended on June. 30 the Goulburn Fire Brigade received 18 calls, including five false alarms, as against 13…

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Hurled Bombs Houses Set On Fire Man's Behaviour

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 7

Flames swept with a roar up the front of a row of 11ouses In Cape' Road, Forest Gate, London, the other day, when a man flung blazing,…

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Fire Siren Test To-night

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 4

Between 8 and 8.30 to-night the sired at the Coulburn Fire Station will be given a series of tests and will probably be…

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