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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1935

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Cannon Fire in Macedonia

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 5

BELGRADE, Monday:--Cannon fire in Macedonia has been heard in Jugoslav border towns…

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House Destroyed Rappville Blaze RAPPVILLE

Northern Star · Friday 8 March 1935 · page 8

A six-roomed house, situated in Green-street, was destroyed by fire last night The building, the property of Mr. H. T. S. Cole, of Busby's Flat,…

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Missing Radium Recovered Trapped in Sewer Washed Out by Fire Hose

Tweed Daily · Saturday 9 March 1935 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday:- Extraordin ary methods adopted by the authorities at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in the, search of four…

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Bush Fire Three Homes Destroyed ADELAIDE

Northern Star · Monday 11 March 1935 · page 4

Damage estimated at between £20,000 and £30,000 was done at Compton yesterday in the most disastrous fire in the history of the…

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Disastrous Bush Fire Mt. Gambier Homes and Livestock Burned

Tweed Daily · Monday 11 March 1935 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Sunday:--One of the most destructive fires known in the Mt. Gambier district yesterday swept about 15,000 acres of…

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Break for Liberty During Fire Prisoners Scale High Wall

Tweed Daily · Monday 11 March 1935 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday:--During the height of a spectacular fire at Castlemaine this afternoon three, prisoners from a nearby…

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Fierce Blaze Causes Deaths of Two Boys Melbourne

Northern Star · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 7

Leslie Smith (14), of Coburg, and Charles Laden (14), of East Brunswick, were burned to death, following an…

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Fine Save Melbourne Blaze Petrol Causes Explosion MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 11

But for strenuous efforts on the part of firemen, a most disastrous fire would have occurred in Flinders Lane…

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2966 Fire Alarms SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 8

The annual report of the Board of Fire Commissioners, tabled in the Legislative Assembly to-day, discloses that during 1934 there were 2966…

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Spectacular Fire in Melbourne Wool and Bacon Destroyed 53 Firemen Fight Flames

Tweed Daily · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. A spectacular fire which broke out in the six-storey building of the Australian Estates and…

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Ballina Fire House Destroyed Ballina

Northern Star · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 9

The house of Mr. C. Holt, on the Ballina-Tintenbar road, about two miles from Ballina, was destroyed by fire to-night…

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Fire Inquiry "Unknown Persons" Coroner's Comments Casino

Northern Star · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 6

A finding that a house at the corner of Lyons and Maclean streets, Rappville, belonging to T. Shorten Cole, was, on March 6, destroyed by a fire…

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Twelve Occupants Trapped Blazing Building Narrow Escapes in Lismore Blaze

Tweed Daily · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 3

LISMORE, Friday:--Trapped by flames which spread with startling rapidity through the weatherboard structure, 12 occupants of a…

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Fireman Scalded at Gas Works Serious Blaze Averted Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 5

One fireman was severely scalded and another received severe injuries to the hand yesterday afternoon during a fire at the…

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Blaze at Gas a Works Firemen Injured Holocaust Averted by Wind

Tweed Daily · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 6

SYDNEY, Saturday:--One fireman was severely scalded and another was injured this afternoon during a fire at the North Shore…

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Lorry Seat on Fire

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 19 March 1935 · page 2

When [?]e returned to his home on Church Hill, Murwillumbah, on Saturday night Mr. C. Barnes discovered the front seat of his motor lorry,…

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Police Fire on Rioting Moslems More Than 200 Killed or Injured

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 20 March 1935 · page 2

KARACHI, Tuesday:--More than 200 people were killed or injured when the police fired into a riotous crowd of Moslems to-day…

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First in World Streamlined Fire Engine (From a Special Correspondent). LONDON, March 2 (By Air Mail)

Northern Star · Wednesday 20 March 1935 · page 14

The craze for streamlining has reached the London fire brigade. This week the first streamlined fire engine, an all-enclosed motor-pump, was…

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House Destroyed Fire at Konorigan CHANNON, Wedesday

Northern Star · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 6

A five-roomed house, occupied by Mr. Amos Downs, at Konorigan, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Shortly after 2.15 Mrs. Downs, who…

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Police Fire on Rioters Nineteen Dead Calcutta

Northern Star · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 7

Nineteen were killed and 60 injured to-day at Karachi, as the result of the police opening fire on turbulent Moslems,…

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