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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1935

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Big Fire Inquiry To-morrow Loss of Wool Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 October 1935 · page 1

An inquiry into the cause of the disastrous fire which gutted Golds-brough Mort. and Co.'s wool stere at Pyrmont recently will be opened by…

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Factory Fire Adelaide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 October 1935 · page 9

A fire destroyed three-quarters of the furniture factory of Walker and Martin on the Bay-road, Ashford and the damage is estimated at between…

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Big Pyrmont Fire Coroner Opens Inquest Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 October 1935 · page 2

An inquest was opened by the City Coroner to-day concerning the disastrous five which occurred in Goldsbrough Mort and Company's premises…

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Big Fire Story at Inquiry Rapid Spread. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 October 1935 · page 1

Evidence that, within a few minutes after the outbreak was first noticed, the flames had spread with…

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Fire in City £1000 Damage Done SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 October 1935 · page 4

Breaking out in one of the dander block" of the city, a fire gave firemen some anxiety before. It could be brought under control…

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Wool Fire Coroner's Open Verdict £800,000 Loss Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 October 1935 · page 4

Mr. E. T. Oram, the City Coroner, returned an open verdict, after hearing evidence of the fire that destroyed one of the big wool stores of…

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Factory Blaze £50,000 Damage Machinery Lost Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 October 1935 · page 4

Damage to the value of £60,000 was caused by a spectacular fire which almost completely destroyed the box factory of John Sharp and…

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Big Wool Fire Insurance Payments SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 October 1935 · page 1

The third progress payment of £100,000 will be made by the Associated Tariff Insurance Companies to Goldsbrough Mort on November 11, in…

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Heavy Loss Murwillumbah Fire £6000 Damage Murwillumbah

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 October 1935 · page 3

A disastrous fire which, it Is thought, started in the Club. House Hotel, Wharf-street, Murwlillumbah, destroyed buildings, shops, stock, and…

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£100,000 DAMAGE Film Studios Fire LONDON, Oct. 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 October 1935 · page 7

A fire broke out to-day in the film studios at Twicknham, causing interruption to train services on the southern electric line, owing to the…

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Big Pyrmont Fire £60,000 Worth of Wool Recovered. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 October 1935 · page 2

About £60,000 worth of wool has been recovered from the recent disastrous fire which destroyed the big store of Messrs Goldsbrough Mort Ltd., at…

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Big Wool Fire Insurance Payments

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 6

The third progress payment of £100,000 will be made by the Associated Tariff Insurance Companies to Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., on…

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Quick Work Fire Settlement SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 7

Arising from the Goldsbrough Mort wool store fire, Goldsbrough Mort have already accounted to clients for £325,000 of the total amount…

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Fire on Post Office Corner, West Maitland, in 1870

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 8

How many people will remember the fire in O'Nelll'o drapery shop, on the Post Office Corner, In 1870? This reproduction of the scene is from an old photograph…

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Badly Burned Petrol Catches Alight Clothes on Fire Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 3

In trying to prevent a blazing motor-van from setting alight other motor-cars in a yard at Newtown, Joseph Sedgewick, 27, of Newtown, was…

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Church Blaze Piano and Organ Lost DAMAGE £900 SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 November 1935 · page 5

The Sutherland Methodist Church,, a weatherboard building, about 65ft x 25ft, roofed with galvanised iron was destroyed, by fire on Saturday,…

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Burned to Death Trapped in Blaze Hotel Fire Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 November 1935 · page 4

Dominico Isitti, a yardman employed at the Federal Hotel, Cairns, was trapped in his room when the building caught fire and was destroyed. His…

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Outbreak of Fire. St. Hellers' Colliery. Surface Damage

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 November 1935 · page 2

When officials arrived at St. Heliers Colliery this morning they were alarmed on discovering a fire burning on the surface…

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On Fire! 'Plane Engine Pilots Lucky Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 November 1935 · page 1

Rex Nicholl (26) and Albert Needham (29) were flying over the mountains from Mudgee to Sydney…

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Kyogle Blaze Furniture Factory, KYOGLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 November 1935 · page 5

Within 48 hours of the conclusion of the initial training period, members of the newly formed Kyogle volunteer fire brigade had their baptism…

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