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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1935

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Fire Raisers Amazing Fraud London, March 23 (By Air Mail)

Northern Star · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 7

The great fire-raising conspiracy, which sent Leo Harris, the big London assessor, and Capt. Miles, Chief of the Salvage Corps, to long terms in a…

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Replaces Post Office Destroyed By Fire

Northern Star · Saturday 13 April 1935 · page 11

The new Bangalow Post Office, with the crowd congregating for the official opening…

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Six Shops Gutted Big Fire at Mundubbera

Tweed Daily · Saturday 13 April 1935 · page 4

GAYNDAH, Friday:--A fire in the main business section of Mundubbera to-night totally destroyed six shops. The outbreak, which is thought to…

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Car Catches Fire

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 April 1935 · page 4

When the engine of Mr. T. Martin's service car burst into Homes in Main Street, Murwillumbah, yesterday, the windscreen of the vehicle was slightly…

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Fire Rescue Brisbane Blaze BRISBANE

Northern Star · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 2

In a successful attempt to prevent the flames from spreading through the house, two firemen were injured at a fire at the home of Mr. E. H…

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Fire Affects Thousands New York

Northern Star · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 7

A hundred firemen and several hundred underground railways passengers were overcome by acrid smoke from a persistent blaze in a Brooklyn…

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"Fire On The Wind"

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 11

The scenes of "Fire on the Wind," by John K. Ewers (Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 76, Sydney agent, Mr. W. S. Smart, Box 120 CC) are laid…

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Fire-murderer's House on Fire Exciting Rescues

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 3

Fire broke out and regard recently in the retry room in Crogsland Road, Chalk Farm, London, once occupied by Samuel Furnace, the fire murderer,…

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House Destroyed by Fire

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 4

A house and contents, the property of Mr. J Bancroft, situated on a farm at Main Arm, were destroyed by fire on Monday night during the…

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Fire House Destroyed at Main Arm

Mullumbimby Star · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 2

On Monday evening lust the home of Mr. J. Bancroft of Main Arm was destroyed by fire. As the time the home, we…

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House Destroyed Fire At Main Arm MULLUMBIMBY

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 6

A house and contents, the property of Mr. J. Bancroft, on a farm at Main Arm. were destroyed by fire last night during the temporary…

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Irish Sweep Fire Dislocates Drawing

Tweed Daily · Thursday 25 April 1935 · page 3

DUBLIN, Wednesday:--The Plaza Building, in the ballroom of which the Irish sweep is drawn, was burnt down this morning. Incendiarism is…

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Dublin Fire Irish Sweepstakes Building LONDON

Northern Star · Thursday 25 April 1935 · page 7

The Plaza building, in Dublin, in the ballroom of which the Dish Sweepstakes is drawn, was burnt down. Incendiarism is…

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Shattered by Explosion Parkes Home Debris Ravaged by Fire

Tweed Daily · Monday 29 April 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday:-- An explosion wrecked one of the finest houses in Parkes on Saturday night, and scattered debris around…

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Adelaide Lit Up Big Fire in Paint and Paper Store

Tweed Daily · Monday 29 April 1935 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Sunday:--A fire which f gutted the paint, glass and wallpaper store of Messrs. Thompson and Harvey, Ltd., of Flinders Street, Adelaide,…

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£1000 DAMAGE Fire at Ice-Cream Works

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 1 May 1935 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday:-- Fire did damage estimated at £1000 to the plant and equipment of the Premier Ice and Ice-Cream Co. Ltd., South…

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Home on Fire Wife's Homecoming LONDON

Northern Star · Wednesday 1 May 1935 · page 2

Returning home from a visit to friends. Mrs. John, wife of the artist, Augustus John, found their home at Fryerncourt, Hampshire, afire…

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Car on Fire

Tweed Daily · Thursday 2 May 1935 · page 2

About midnight last night a car belonging to a traveller staying at the Club House Hotel, Murwillumbah, caught fire in the yard at the rear of…

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Lorry Fire In Hotel Stables

Northern Star · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 6

Only minor damage was caused by a fire which started in a tarpaulin on the top of a motor lorry parked in the stables at the rear of the…

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Flaming Message of Loyalty His Majesty's Jubilee 1750 Beacons Will Blaze Floodlighting Will Transform London

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday:--A flaming message of loyalty will leap from beacon to beacon when, at 9.55 p.m. on Monday, His Majesty presses a button and thus sets off an enormous bonfire in Hyde Park. Britain, the Shetlands and…

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