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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

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Fire Disaster Match Factory Gutted Hull (Quebec)

Northern Star · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 7

Six girls were burned to death when the Canada Match Factory was gutted. The fire followed an explosion. Number of other…

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Big Blaze at Cunnamulla [?]10,000 DAMAGE Seven Premises Totally Destroyed CUNNAMULLA, Friday.--

Tweed Daily · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 3

About 3 o'clock this morning the Club Hotel, Marks' wine and spirit bulk store, H. Wallis' cordial factory, the premises known as…

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£10,000 Damage Fire at Cunnamulla Brisbane

Northern Star · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 6

A fire at Cunnamulla this morning caused damage estimated at £10,000. The Club Hotel was burned to the ground, as well as Marks's…

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Yabbies Did It! Boys Start Disastrous Fire

Tweed Daily · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday:—Boys fishing for yabbies, according to police reports, were responsible for the destruction by fire on Saturday of the…

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Baby Burnt Alive Fire in Victorian Homestead

Tweed Daily · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday: — A fire which destroyed the homestead of J. Spittle caused the death of his 14-months-old son. Spittle left his house…

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Caught in Wheels Girl's Sad Death Body Then Scorched by Fire

Tweed Daily · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 3

GRAFTON Sunday— Particularly sad circumstances marked the tragic death on Saturday afternoon of Eileen…

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Midnight Blaze at Tweed Heads Cottage Totally Destroyed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 2

About midnight on Sunday, a six-roomed weatherboard cottage occupied by Thomas R. Meaker and family as a private dwelling in Boyd Street, Tweed…

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Alleged Delay In Attending Fire

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 4

A letter from the Board of Fire Commissioners at last night's meeting of the Lismore Municipal Council gave the result of the…

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Fire Havoc at Cudgera Post-office Burnt Fisher Family Lose Everything

Tweed Daily · Thursday 23 March 1933 · page 2

With amazing rapidity, a fire raged through Cudgera Creek post office and residence yesterday morning and completely gutted the…

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Fire Prevention is Self Protection

Northern Star · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 12

The subject of safety or danger from fire is one whicli appears to present itself incliff event forms to various minds, according to the point of view…

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Bankstown Fire Comments of Coroner Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 7

That a weatherboard cottage at Bankstown owned by James Blackburn, destroyed by fire on February 19, had been, deliberately set on fire…

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Typhoid Outbreak Deaths Now Total Fire

Tweed Daily · Monday 27 March 1933 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday:--So serious has the Cowra typhoid fever outbreak become that the 300 people who attended the recent open-air…

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Serious Bush Fires

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday. -- Serious bush fires are raging in the Tumbarumba and Holbrook districts, where graziers have sustained heavy losses…

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Ringing Fire Bell Officer's Discretion

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 4

The Board of Fire Commissioners has notified the secretary of the Lismore Chamber of Commerce (Mr. C. A. Munro) that the question raised by…

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INCENDIARISM 15 Injured in Church Fire

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 4

MONTREAL, Monday:-- Following quickly on an anonymous warning that incendiarism was intended, a fire destroyed St. Jacque's Roman Catholic…

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Fire Menaces Oil Tanks Newport Scare Fire Brigade's Great Save

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:-- Consternation was caused when a fire broke out in a pit of oil refuse at Newport this afternoon, sending…

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"Ball of Fire" Eye-witness's Grahpic Account

Tweed Daily · Thursday 30 March 1933 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday:--A graphic account of the disaster was given by a[?] eye-witness, an elderly Belgian, Colonel Massart, whose…

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British Air Liner Crashes 15 People Killed Fuel Tank Explodes and Plane Catches Fire Sydney Youths Among the Victims London

Northern Star · Thursday 30 March 1933 · page 7

An air disaster occurred this afternoon when an Imperial Airways liner, the City of Liverpool, proceeding from Cologne and Brussels to Croydon, crashed and caught fire near Dixmude (Flanders)…

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Kidnapped by Chinese Pirates Four British Officers Steamer Boarded Under Fire

Tweed Daily · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 3

SHANGHAI, Thursday.-- Four British officers of the steamship Nanchang were captured by pirates off Newchang…

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Brisbane Fire Hero Human Torch Burned Trying to Save Friend's Home

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday:—When he forced his way into a burning house, at South Brisbane last night arid attempted to extinguish the flames,…

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