"Very Satisfactory" Lismore Fire Brigade
Chief Officer T. Nance of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades has been visiting the Norths Coast on a tour of inspection of fire stations. On Monday he visited…
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Fires & bushfires, 1932
513 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 26
Japan Ceases Fire Assembly Delegates Pleased
GENEVA, Thursday:--With the announcement that Japan had ceasfire confronting them at breakfast, the Special Sino-Japanese…
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There is an old and trite saying that where there's smoke there's fire. One can well believe it since the Minister for Customs announced the Federal…
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A cottage, belonging to Mr. S. N. Cookson, was destroyed, with all its contents, about 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. The alarm was given by…
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Two Adelaide boys, the elder of whom is not yet 15, set out to walk to Texas, where they hoped to experience the excitements of cattle ranches…
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SYDNEY, Saturday: -- Sidney Barr (23), a glass blower, of Rosebank Street, Darlinghurst, was taken from, a house in Regent…
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SYDNEY, Sunday:-- When the steamer Time, which sailed for southern ports on Friday night at 7 p.m., was off Port Kembla, Joseph Walsh,…
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Damage roughly estimated at about £600 was caused by a fire which destroyed the farmhouse belonging to the three Misses Gulliford, on the…
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With portion of her cargo ablaze, the Howard Smith inter-State steamer Time made a dramatic race to Sydney on Friday. The outbreak was…
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CASINO, Tuesday:--With regard to the destruction of S. N. Cookson's residence by fire at Bonalbo on February, 28, the Coroner yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensational Evidence Fire at Old Bonalbo. Woman Committed for Trial. Alleged Statement to Farmer
In last issue the "Courier" published a brief account of a fire which destroyed the dwelling of Mr. S. N. Cookson on a farm at Old Bonalbo on Sunday…
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Some extraordinary evidence was tendered at the Coroner's inquiry into a fire which destroyed the house of S. M. Cookson, at Bonalbo, on…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday:--Another house wherefrom an unemployed man recently was evicted was set on fire last night. The front and side Walls…
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In less than an hour after it had been beaten out a fire blazed up again and swept towards a home and burned menacingly in thick grass around a…
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The home of Mr. and Mrs. McPhail, Cudgen, had a narrow escape on Wednesday last, when a bush fire swept over the Headland. It is reported that…
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TOWNS VILE, Sunday:--Whilst the Adelaide Steamship Company's motor ship Momba was discharging at Townville jetty on Saturday a sling…
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Lismore fire brigade was called to extinguish a grass fire in a paddock near the sewerage treatment works and the firemen had three hours hard work…
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State Cabinet yesterday decided to reappoint Mr. T. J. Smith, M.L.C., president of the Board of Fire Commissioners, for a further term of five…
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The Coraki fire brigade was called out on Thursday night shortly before 10 o'clock in a vain effort to extinguish a blaze behind the show ground,…
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TOOWOOMBA, Saturday: In a spectacular fire to night a boarding-house in Herries Street, which was of wood, and contained 15 rooms, was destroyed…
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