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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

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Fire Subdued

Tweed Daily · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 5

LONDON, Friday:--The Zoven Provincien fire has been subdued. The captain and a skeleton, crew are back on the warship, which is returning to…

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Dogs Give Fire Alarm Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 7

Awakened by the frantic barking of two dogs just before daybreak this morning, William Breas found his home, situated in the bush at…

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Open Verdict Inquiry Into Fire SYDNEY

Northern Star · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 7

Police evidence was given that a cloth soaked with petrol was found underneath a weatherboard cottage owned by Sherwhi Aueb, a Syrian, at…

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Headless Body in Fire Ruins Police Investigating SYDNEY

Northern Star · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 5

Detective-Sergt. Keogh left Sydney this afternoon in response to a police report from Braidwood that the charred headless body of a man had been…

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Bushfire Outbreaks MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 5

Hundreds of acres of grass and forest land was swept by fires which broke out in Bright, Harrietville, and Beechworth districts in the vicinity of…

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Fell Into Flames Death During Grass Fire

Tweed Daily · Monday 13 February 1933 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday While he was burning off long grass at his home, Frederick Netzler (75), of Mullumroad, Ringwood, fell into the flames…

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Mysterious Fires

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday. -- Two men were arrested at Southern Cross, West Australia, in connection with six mysterious fires…

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Bushfires on 12 Miles Front Tumbarumba

Northern Star · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 4

Burning with a 12 miles front, a bushfire is threatening Mannus soldiers settlement five miles from Tumbarumba. Finding efforts to check…

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Heroic Fight Bush Fires Prisoners Assist Tumbarumba

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 7

Terrifically hot weather caused fresh outbreaks of fire in the Mannus and Carabost forests this morning. Before long a wall…

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Fire Victim Montecollum Farmer Many at Funeral Mullumbimby

Northern Star · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 6

Samuel James Gray, a farmer burned to death at Montecollum yesterday, was buried at Mullumbimby this afternoon. There was…

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Bushfires Well Under Control Tumbahumba

Northern Star · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 6

The bushfires which ravaged the country between Mannus and Carabost during the past few days were well under control to-day. Gangs of…

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Saves Children Father's Bravery in Fire Melbourne

Northern Star · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 7

A courageous rescue was carried out in the early hours of this morning by J. Phillips when his home at Werribee South caught fire. He was…

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Brothers' Loss Burnt Out

Northern Star · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 7

Messrs. B. and J. Elliott, of South Woodburn, about 15 months ago started a banana plantation about six miles out on the…

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Troops Fire on Strikers Bucharest

Northern Star · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 7

Four thousand striking workers at the State railway workshops barricaded themselves in the building and sniped with revolvers in defiance of…

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CRITICAL Situation in Bucharest Troops Fire on Strikers

Tweed Daily · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday:--The Mail's" Vienna correspondent says the rattling of machine guns and rifles awakened Bucharest at…

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Insurance Paid Casino S. and A. Fire CASINO

Northern Star · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 10

At last night's meeting of the Casino School of Arts the treasurer, Mr. P. M. Swanson, presented the following financial statement: Balance, £194;…

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Woman's Home in Fire's Trail

Tweed Daily · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday:--A bush fire is raging on a 20-mile front, from Kergunyali and towards Yackandandah. Of the 50 men fighting the fire, 16 are…

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Huge Losses Fires in Melbourne Factory Gutted Melbourne

Northern Star · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 5

Cooke's nail factory in South Melbourne was gutted by fire which swept through the huge building last night, damage being…

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Bushfires Difficulty of Fighters Melbourne

Northern Star · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 4

Bush fires in Yackandandah and Kergunyah districts were still burning steadily over the week-end. Difficulty is being experienced in coping…

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Factory Burnt Oil Causes Spectacular Blaze

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday--In a three- hours blaze 50,000 gallons of fuel oil and other inflammable material crashed and spurted in great bursts of flame at…

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