Merriwa Fire At Freezing Works SCONE
A fire at the Merriwa Freezing Works on Sunday morning last did extensive damage, so much be that the treatment of rabbits for export…
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Fires & bushfires, 1935
510 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 26
Merriwa Freezing Works' Fire
The assessor visited Merriwa on Tuesday. The damage is estimated at £2300. The fire has had the effect of throwing a number of men…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coming Attractions to the Theatres "The Fire Raisers."
Recent fire scandals, involving conspiracy and other charges against bridge official and business men operating in fire insurance, lend…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Country Fire Heavy Damage Lambs Roasted Nyngan
Damage estimated at £3000 was caused by a fire which completely destroyed a large wool shed at Bucking Guy Station the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dalwood Home Outbreak of Fire Nobody Hurt Sydney
When an outbuilding at Dalwood Rest Home, French's Forest Road, caught fire and was noon burning fiercely last night, prompt action by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£50,000 DAMAGE Big Fire in Melbourne Stock Insured Melbourne
Early this morning are broke out in the premises of Brooklands Accessories, Ltd., in Lonsdale-st, city. Before it had been extinguished,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire in Melbourne Damage Estimated at £60,000. MELBOURNE
Damage estimated at £60,000 was caused by a fire at the premises of Brooklands Motor Accessories Proprietary Ltd., in Lonsdale-street, late last…
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Cessnock Council's request to have the names of persons who figured in the rescue work at Baker's fire on December 2 supplied cannot be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire 300 Stud Ram Lambs Perish Damage Estimated at £4000
Three hundred merino stud ram lambs were burned to death when a woolshed on Buckiinguy Station, Nyngan, was destroyed by fire on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fires N.Z. Outbreaks Heavy Loss Wellington (N.z.)
Much damage has been done, by outbreaks of fire among the peat at Newstead, in the Hamilton district, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Dead Melbourne Fire Woman Battered Melbourne
A man named Ernest Dawson, about 45 years, a fish hawker, and Maude Dillon (40), were killed to-day as a result of a fire which…
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A mild panic occurred at the pictures last Saturday night, when the film caught fire. Mr. Les. Engel told the audience that there was no cause…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farms Menaced New Zealand Fires Wellington (N.z.)
The fires in the Waikato district are still a menace by reason of many underground peat fires, and many homesteads have been ruined…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fires in New Zealand Settlers Have Very Heavy Losses
Much, damage has been done, by outbreaks of fire, among the peat at. Newstead, in the Hamilton district of New Zealand, and already several settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →'Plane Battles Through Storm Danger of Fire. Darwin
The pilot of the Imperial Airways mail 'plane Athena, Captain Wilson, said the thunder and lightning were the worst he had ever experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spitting Fire South Africa's Volcano CAPETOWN, January 18
Dukumbane, South Africa's only volcano, is in eruption. It is 30 miles from Mzuzi, in North Zululand. The owner of a farm, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Act of Spite? Warehouse on Fire Man Arrested Wellington (N.z.)
After smashing the show-windows of A.J. Watt's furniture ware house at Dunedin, a man is alleged to have set fire to the firm's factory…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Queensland Danger Heat Wave Brisbane
The beautiful hoop pine forests of Hooke Island, off the coast of North Queensland, are in danger of being totally destroyed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire, Head and Rain in Queensland Pine Forests of Hooke Island Threatened
The magnificent hoop pine forests of Hooke Island," off the North Queensland coast, are in danger of being totally destroyed by fire. The conflagration is stated to have been started by vandals. Already 260,000 acres of vegetation have been destroyed. Unless rain falls…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petrol Blaze Two Men Burned SYDNEY
William Fox, 38, and Clement Kelly 28, of Fox Bros.' Circus, suffered burns to the body, arms, and legs, when a fire broke out at a circus at…
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