Ballina Fire Brigade
The committee endeavouring to raise funds to send Ballina Fire Brigade to the Newcastle carnival in March, is working quietly but steadily towards…
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Fires & bushfires, 1934
412 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 21
Bushfires Rage Tasmanian Sawmill, School and Homes Destroyed
BURNIE, Tuesday:- A sawmill, school and several homesteads were destroyed and thousands of acres of valuable timber and grass lands swept…
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Bush fires are raging in the Devonport district, where widespread damage has been caused. The settlers have banded together in an effort to…
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A residence occupied by Mr. J. Garrard at Upper Main Arm, Mullumbimby, together with the contents, was totally destroyed by fire…
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Madame Dimitroff, the 72-years-old mother of the Communist who was one of the five accused in the Reichstag fire trial, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Settlers Battle Bushfires in Tasmania
DEVENPORT, Wednesday:--Settlers m the timber districts are fighting for heir homes, in several instances without success. At Loronna, the State…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfires' Havoc in Tasmania Many Homes Burned Damage Estimated at Over £100,000
HOBART, Tuesday:--The whole of the valley above the Fitzgerald River, which flows into the Derwent River, was threatened with…
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A Hobart mesage states that the whole of the valley above Fitzgerald in the Derwent Valley was threatende with destruction on Tuesday, by…
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Huge bushfires are still raging in the Huon and Derwent Valley districts and are leaping forward on a wide front with remarkable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Exciting Moments Fires Raging in South Australia Also
ADELAIDE, Thursday:--A fire swept gullies near Forreston last night, but were got under control to-day after about a thousand acres of timber and…
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HOBART, Thursday:--In widely spread districts, Fitzgerald, at the head of the Derwent Valley, the Hucn, in the South West, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further Earthquake Shocks in India Floods and Fires Add to Horror of Disaster CALCUTTA, Wednesday. Further earthquake tremors last night added to the terrors of the survivors in the Muzzafarpore district, where more than a thousand perished during the shocks on Monday. Appalling loss of life and widespread damage to property is reported from Bih ar and Orissa and the Bengal provinces of India
The deaths have been heaviest in Monghyr and Muzza-Farpore, in the Ganges Valley, which, according to press report, have been razed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Damage Blaze in City SYDNEY
Damage estimated at £10,000 was, caused by a fire which partially destroyed Eden Building, in George Street West, on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire MELBOURNE
A fire at the Electra Palais, Black Rock, gutted the premises last night and art works valued at hundreds of pounds and a pianola and organ worth…
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The police are investigating a fire in a poultry yard at the Bankstown Fancy and Utility Poultry Club this morning. The club was conducting an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trapped by Bushfire Tasmanian's Body Recovered
HOBART, Sunday:- Herbert Bowden was burnt to death in bush fires near Ellendale, and on Saturday his charred, unrecognisable body was found…
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The District Coroner (Mr. H. W. Vincent), of Uralla, held an inquiry touching the fire and explosion which destroyed S. Bow & Sons' store on…
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HOBART, Monday:--Trying to burn a firebreak round a pile of palings, Herbert Boden, 65, was burned to death at Ellendale…
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LISMORE Municipal Council, supported by the Chamber of Commerce, has been trying to have Lismore fire district…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →House Destroyed by Fire
During the absence of the occupiers a house and its contents were totally destroyed by fire at Cudgera on Tuesday of last week. Mr. and…
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