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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1934

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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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Latest Telegrams. Destroyed by Fire. Barnes Bacon Factory at Homebush. Sydney

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1934 · page 5

Barnes' Bacon Company's factory at Homebush was practically destroyed by fire early this morning. The bulk of the machinery and part of the…

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Incendiarist at Work Fires in South Australian District

Tweed Daily · Monday 28 May 1934 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sunday:--It is believed, there is an incendiarist operating in the Blackwood district, which is in Adelaide Hills,…

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Prisoners Panic Prison Van Catches Fire

Tweed Daily · Monday 28 May 1934 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday:--Carrying 15 prisoners to the Metropolitan Gaol, at Pentridge, a prison van burst into, flames in Flinders Street. When the…

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Destroyed by Fire Lynch's Creek

Northern Star · Tuesday 29 May 1934 · page 10

The residence of Mr. S. Fulton, of Lynch's Creek, was destroyed by fire on Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Fulton were in…

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13 INCINERATED Wrecked Motor Coach Catches Fire

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 29 May 1934 · page 4

BORDEAUX, Sunday: -- Owing, to the burst of a tyre, a motor-coach collided with a telegraph pole at Lipostey, caught fire and…

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Farm Homestead Destroyed Fire at Lynch's Creek

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 29 May 1934 · page 4

During the absence of the occupants a fire broke out in a farm homestead at Lynch's Creek on Friday night, and, together with…

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Another Savage Riot American Guardsmen Fire on Mob Again

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 29 May 1934 · page 3

TOLEDO (Ohio), Sunday:-- Another savage riot occurred last night when, for the third successive day, National Guardsmen fired…

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House Destroyed Blaze at Kyogle KYOGLE

Northern Star · Thursday 31 May 1934 · page 6

Kyogle had its first fire of the year shortly after noon to-day, when a house on Church Hill, owned by Mr. H. Simpson, and…

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Home Destroyed Midday Blaze

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 1 June 1934 · page 4

A fire which was thought to have originated in a bedroom on Wednesday at midday completely destroyed a cottage owned by…

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Troops Fire on Steamers MOSCOW

Northern Star · Friday 1 June 1934 · page 7

An explosive situation has been created by allegations that Soviet troops have been firing on Manchukuo steamers using…

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£16,000 DAMAGE Packing Shed Destroyed Gosford Blaze Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 June 1934 · page 3

Hundreds of packing oases and a quarter of a million oranges were destroyed while a man had a narrow escape from being…

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Miners Win Race with Fire Ipswich

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 June 1934 · page 7

Miners at Aberdare Extended colliery won a desperate race against a spreading fire 1500 feet below the surface and half…

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Race Against Fire Miners Win Ipswich Colliery Sealed Up

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 June 1934 · page 2

IPSWICH, Monday: Miners in the Aberdare Extended colliery won a desperate race against fire 1,500 feet below the surface and…

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Fire Causes £8,000 DAMAGE Fruit Packing House and Trucks Destroyed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 June 1934 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday:-About £8000 worth of stock, plant and buildings were destroyed when, at 1.30 a.m. to-day, a fire demolished the premises and…

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Outbreak of Fire

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 June 1934 · page 4

IPSWICH, Tuesday:—A fire broke out in Hart's Aberdare 1 colliery, Blackstone, this morning. It appears that a small fife somewhere near the…

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House Destroyed Hunter Street Fire

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 June 1934 · page 6

A fire, which had a strong hold when it was first noticed by people in the house adjoining, destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Brown in…

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Fire at Mullumbimby

Tweed Daily · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 2

Mr. L. V. Johnson, Headmaster of Mullumbimby Public School, noticed an outbreak of fire in Mullumbimby Bowling Club's clubhouse early on…

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Disastrous Fire Bowling Club House Gutted

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 14 June 1934 · page 2

A disastrous fire occurred short-after one o'lock on Saturday last when the Club House of the Mullumbimby Bowling Club was…

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Two Calls Lismore Fire Brigade

Northern Star · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 6

The Lismore fire brigade answered two calls to extinguish small fires yesterday. At 12.20 p.m., a grass fire which spread into a paddock at the…

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