200 Lives Lost Fire in Chinese Theatre
LONDON, Wednesday:--The Peking correspondent of "The Times" says that more than 200 people, including 14…
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Fires & bushfires, 1936
607 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 31
Slight Damage by Fire CASINO
Only slight damage was done by a fire which broke out to-day in the kitchen of a cottage at Railway Heights occupied by Mr. C. M…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South Grafton Fire GRAFTON
A neighbour found the home of Mr. Phillip Howley, in Skinner-street, South Grafton, blazing at three o'clock on Sunday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire District Reclassification Sought
The Lismore Municipal Council last night decided to again ask the Fire Underwriters' Association to reclassify the Lismore fire district. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Disastrous Fire at Ballarat £35,000 Damage Theatre Gutted, Other Buildings Damaged
MELBOURNE, Tuesday:-- In one of the largest fires ever seen, at Ballarat the Coliseum Theatre, Australia's largest picture theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Efficient Service to Be Recognised Captain Flick's Long Record In Fire Brigade
A public meeting of citizens held in Murwillumbah Council Chambers last night decided unanimously to recognise, the long and efficient…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General Fire Brigade Appointments
The Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales has advised Murwillumbah Municipal Council that it has been pleased to approve of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Destroys Cottage
Fire early on Wednesday morning destroyed a five-roomed cottage owned by Mr. Geo. Bailey and situated opposite his residence on Wangaree…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Search for Fire
When a thin veil of smoke was noticed in the hardware department of Messrs. A. G. Robertson's department store, Lismore, late last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Six Houses Gutted Bush Fires in Victoria
MELBOURNE; Tuesday:-- A series of bush fires, fanned to fury by a hot northerly wind, broke out all over the State to-day. The most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Filming Fires Pictures for Brigade Tram[?]b[?]
London firemen has been taking film pictures at all [?] Replying, to an [?]i from the Daily Mail, after the [?] the first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Australian Hotel
About 7 o'clock last night Murwillumbah Fire Brigade was called out to a fire which had broken out in the chimney of the Australian Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hundreds Homeless in Victoria Raging Bush Fires Over Thirty Houses Burnt Men, Women and Children Fight Flames
MELBOURNE, Wednesday:--Thousands of men, women and children fought grimly to-day in all parts of the State in an unequal battle to save their homes and property from the raging bush fires, which are stated to be worst since…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Settlement Destroyed by Bushfire Heavy Damage MELBOURNE
Rivalling in seventy the [?] fires of several years ago, a huge wall of flame several miles in width enveloped the tiny…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Has Now Passed Bush Fire Menace in Victoria
MELBOURNE; Thursday:--Although many parts of the State are still veiled in smoke and timber areas are burning desultorily,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Car Damaged by Fire
Late on Monday a blue Austin car, the property of Mr. Kealy, Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay, was seriously damaged by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damaged by Fire Byron Bay
A car owned by Mr. H. F. Kealy, of Byron Bay, was badly damaged when petrol, with which it was being filled, caught alight. A tyre, the hood and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Local and General Car Damaged by Fire
An Austin car owned by Mr. H. F. Kealy, of Byron Bay, was badly damaged when petrol which was being filled into it ignited. A tyre, the hood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Liquid Fire Added to Horrors Britain Alarmed Fresh Efforts to End War
LONDON, Friday: -- The Italian invaders of Abyssinia have added liquid fire to poison gas as a means of subjugating…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods and Bush Fires. Now Give Way to Snow and Floods. Melbourne
The disastrous bush fires of last week yesterday gave place to snow and thunderstorms, with every possibility of floods in many Victoria areas…
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