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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

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Adelaide Blaze. Repatriation Hospital Suffers

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tuesday : -- Between £4000 and £5000 damage was done last night by a fire, at Keswick Repatriatior, Hospital, which broke out shortly…

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Fires Raging Victoria Inland Districts

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Bush-fires are still raging in many inland districts. Already many thousands of pounds damage has been done, principally to…

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After the Fire

Northern Star · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 10

Fire destroyed the line residence of Mrs. A. M. Gittoes, with contents, early Monday morning at Byron Bay. The occupants were fortunate to escape uninjured…

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Fire Station Wanted M'bimby Proposal Mullumbimby

Northern Star · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 5

Advice was received at last night's meeting of the Mullumbimby Council from the Board of Fire Commissioners, that it would discuss the provision of…

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Local Government Mullumbimby Council Fire Station for Town

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 4

Advice was received at Monday night's meeting of the Mullumbimby Muncipal Council from the Beard of Fire Commissioners, that…

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Dutchman Sets Fire to the Reichstag Berlin

Northern Star · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 7

The Reichastag was badly damaged last night by a fire deliberately started by a 24-years-old Dutchman…

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Fire Announcement

Tweed Daily · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 2

To all clients I desire to notify that I am carrying on business at temporary location at on at rear of premises recently destroyed by fire. Our petrol pumps…

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£10,000 Melbourne Fire Melbourne

Northern Star · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 3

Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by fire which broke out on the top floor of Marks Building, Russell-street, early this morning…

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Our Short Story. Wild fire's Great Race

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 3

A long, nervous, delicately-shaped head, terminating in a brace of daintily-dilated nostrils, slender neck, long, narrow body, muscular, well-shaped…

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Bush Fire Menace in Victoria Melbourne

Northern Star · Friday 3 March 1933 · page 7

Homesteads and station properties are now threatened by bush fires which are still raging in Seymour district…

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Saved From Bush Fire Alpine Township Residents' Heroic Struggle

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 March 1933 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday:--The little township of Glen Wills, near Omeo, in the Alpine country, had a close call…

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Victorian Grass Fires

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 3 March 1933 · page 8

A big grass fire east of Seymour extended over eight miles of country, and destroyed 6000 acres. Three thousand acres of valuable grazing…

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Big Melbourne Blaze Melbourne

Northern Star · Friday 3 March 1933 · page 5

Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by fire on the top floor of a Flinders Lane building occupicd by Sigma and Co., Ltd., wholesale…

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"Deliberately Staged" Soviet Press on Reichstag Fire

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 March 1933 · page 3

MOSCOW, Thursday:--The "Investia"' has openly accused the Hitler Government of deliberately staging the Reichstag fire in order to have a…

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Heroic Effort Child Perishes in Fire Gundagai

Northern Star · Friday 3 March 1933 · page 7

The story of parents' heroic efforts to rescue their daughter was told at an inquest to-day into the death of Joan Nicholls (3) of Jones Creek, near…

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Fire Announcement

Tweed Daily · Saturday 4 March 1933 · page 4

To all clients I desire to notify that I am carrying on business at temporary location at rear of premises recently destroyed by fire. Our petrol pumps…

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Ballina Fire Fortunate Discovery Ballina

Northern Star · Saturday 4 March 1933 · page 6

Damage totalling about £100 was caused by a fire in Burgett's Boot Palace, River-street, Ballina, late last night. The loss would have been…

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Electric Iron Caused Fire?

Tweed Daily · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 2

Damage, totalling, £ 100 was caused by a fire in Burgett's Boot Palace, River Street, Ballina, late on Thursday night. The loss would have been…

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Joy Bells For Hitler Ecstatic Germans Beacons Blaze in His Honor

Tweed Daily · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 3

BERLIN, Sunday:-- Gigantic : beacons are blazing on snow-clad peaks, bounding Germany in southeast and south and stretching…

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Parramatta Fire Coroner Adjourns Inquiry

Northern Star · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 8

Strong comment was made by the Parramatta Coroner (Mr. Richardson[?] Clark) when he adjourned an inquiry into a fire which, damaged…

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