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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1934

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Summer's Fire Returns Fourth Hottest Day Parting Heat-Wave in Store?

Tweed Daily · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 3

In keeping with the caprices of Tweed weather, the latter end of April, with yesterday's warmth, has experienced hotter weather…

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Larwood Bowls Six Overs Took Things Easy ''Soon Will Reproduce Old Fire"

Tweed Daily · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.-- Harold Larwood bowled six overs at the. Trent Bridge ground, taking a run of only six paces instead of the…

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Bond Store Gutted Darwin Blaze Big Quantity of Goods Destroyed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 2

DARWIN, Monday:—A fire destroyed an iron and wooden structure in Darwin railway yard used as a customs bond store and a…

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Darwin Faces Food Shortage Result of Fire Settlers in Serious Plight

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 7

DARWIN, Tuesday: -- Townspeople, settlers and miners along the Darwin-Birdum railway line are faced with an acute food…

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Good Save Alstonville Fire ALSTONVILLE

Northern Star · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 6

A fire broke out in the fruit and refreshment rooms of Mr. S. V. Eggins, Main-street, Alstonville, about four o'clock this morning…

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Plane Catches Fire Pilot's Narrow Escape

Tweed Daily · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday:-- The famous Sadile Cointe had a narrow escape while testing an aeroplane. The machine caught fire when flying at…

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Fell Into Fire SYDNEY

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 May 1934 · page 8

Taking a fit and falling into an open fire while boiling his billy in a humpy at Mt. Colah this afternoon, Peter McGregor (60) was terribly burned on the…

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22 Persons Killed; 30 INJURED Troops Open Fire on Moslems

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 May 1934 · page 3

CALCUTTA, Sunday:--Twenty-two persons were killed and 30 injured when a military force opened fire on a Hohurram procession in…

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Serious Affray French Communists Fire on Police

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 5

PARIS, Wednesday.--A serious affray broke out early this morning in the Goeblins district, when Communists, as a protest against the arrest…

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Up-to-date Fire Bug

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 3

At an inquiry last week into an explosion and fire at a house at Charleville (Q.) Sergt. Corbett deposed that, the fire had been a deliberate…

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Trapped in Fire Two Women Perish Wellington (N.z.)

Northern Star · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 7

The incinerated remains of Mrs. Ellen Franklin (76) and Miss Smaile (40) were found in the ruins of their home at…

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Timely Discovery South Lismore Fire

Northern Star · Tuesday 15 May 1934 · page 7

The timely discovery of an outbreak in the rear of the bakehouse building, prevented what may have been a serious fire at Grice's bakery at South…

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Was There Foul Play? Mysterious Fire Woman's Bloodstained Body in House Ruins

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 16 May 1934 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The police are investigating mysterious circumstances connected with a fire which destroyed a house at…

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Insurances South Lismore Fire

Northern Star · Thursday 17 May 1934 · page 5

It is estimated that the damage caused by the fire in Mr. J. Grice's bakery in Union-street, South Lismore, early Tuesday morning will…

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Mysterious Affair Fire on Italian's Cane Farm

Tweed Daily · Thursday 17 May 1934 · page 5

INNISFAIL, Wednesday.--Mysterious circumstances surround a fire which passed through a 16 acre block of sugar cane some time last night…

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Fifteen Killed Fire Damp Explosion. Brussels

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 18 May 1934 · page 4

At least fifteen were killed in a second explosion of fire damp at a coal mine at Paturagie. It is feared there are many more dead including…

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Disastrous Blaze in Chicago Heavy Damage CHICAGO

Northern Star · Monday 21 May 1934 · page 5

Starting late in the afternoon, a fire which five hours before fire officials had announced was under control, swept the municipal…

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Chicago Fire Most Drastic in Half a Century

Tweed Daily · Monday 21 May 1934 · page 3

CHICAGO, Saturday:--Starting late in the afternoon, a fire swept the stockyards section of the Southside. It was five hours before the fire…

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No Loss of Life The Chicago Blaze CHICAGO

Northern Star · Tuesday 22 May 1934 · page 3

Work was started to-day on the rehabilitation of the fire stricken area. Throughout last night firemen continued to play water on the…

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Fire at Casino Casino

Northern Star · Friday 25 May 1934 · page 8

About 11.30 to-night a fire broke out in a galvanised iron shed, 50 feet by 30 feet, at the r ear of premises occupied by Mr. G. Sjostet, a railway…

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