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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1937

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Fire Insurance Rates. Up 200 Per Cent. at Bellingen

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 2

Increases in insurances rates, in some, instances of over 200 per cent, on previous premium charges, have fallen like a bombshell amongst the business…

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Set House on Fire "To Give Employer Fright"

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 8

PERTH, Tuesday.-- A boy aged 14 admitted in the Children's Court, Bridgetown, that in a fit of temper he spread about three tins of petrol…

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Fire at Bonalbo Work of Bucket Brigade Bonaleo

Northern Star · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 6

About 4.30 p.m. yesterday an outbreak of fire occurred in an outbuilding at the rear of the Tick office. Mr. Chas. Brownfield, who was…

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Where Brown Met Death Spot Located ? Articles in Ashes of Camp Fire

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 5

ST. GEORGE, Wednesday:-- Police to-day located a spot where it is believed Ernest Brown met his death. On the river bank,…

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Fire Destroys Cottage

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 4

Fire destroyed a weatherboard cottage and its contents at Broken Head. The house was owned and occupied by Mr. A. Lewins. who at the time…

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Opened Fire Without Provocation Spaniards Blame Cruiser Steamer Sunk by Submarine

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday:-A Valencia message states that while two Spanish Government aeroplanes were making a reconnaissance flight…

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Local Government Mullumbimby Council Plans For New Fire Station

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 June 1937 · page 7

Sketch plans in connection with the proposed new fire station at Mullumbimby were received from the Board of Fire Commissioners…

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Plans Received New Fire Station for Mullumbimby Water Supply Mullumbimby

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 June 1937 · page 4

Sketch plans in connection with the proposed fire station at Mullumbimby were received from the Board of Fire Commissioners at last meeting of…

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Rescued by Firemen Terrified Girls Fire in Sydney Building

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 June 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday:--Nearly 50 tenants, most of them women, fled from Lyceum House to the street to-day when a fire on the first…

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Building Filled with Smoke Fire in Sydney Women and Children Panic Stricken

Tweed Daily · Saturday 5 June 1937 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday:- During a fire in Cameo Chambers, Pitt Street, Sydney, this evening the lights failed, and as dense volumes…

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£20,000 DAMAGE Brisbane Fire BRISBANE

Northern Star · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 5

Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire which swept portion of the motor spring works of Charles Hope Ltd., in Wandoo-street,…

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Fire in Brisbane Basement of Building Gutted

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 June 1937 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday:--A fire which broke out in the premises of the Wilson Optical Service in the basement of a two-storey building near the…

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Rolled on Fire While Asleep Fisherman's Hands Badly Burnt

Tweed Daily · Thursday 10 June 1937 · page 4

Peter Shepherd, a fisherman, of Boyd's Bay, Tweed Heads, suffered severe burns to both hands and his right forearm through rolling…

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Coolangatta Fire

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 June 1937 · page 4

A shop situated in McLean Street, Coolangatta, and occupied by Mr. H. J. Conriolly. hairdresser and tobacconist, was completely gutted by a fire…

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Higher Premiums Fire and Accident Insurance SYDNEY

Northern Star · Saturday 12 June 1937 · page 7

Companies which are members of the Fire and Accident Underwriters' Association have decided to revise the premium rates on insurance as from…

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Hospital Staff Competent Fire-fighters

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 1

The staff at the Kyogle Memorial Hospital are competent fire-fighters. That fact was revealed in a…

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Southport Fire

Tweed Daily · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 4

Damage estimated to be about £800 was caused by a fire which destroyed the pavilion of the Surfers' Paradise Surf Life Saving Club, a two-storey…

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Damaged by Fire Casino

Northern Star · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 10

A fire broke out in a bedroom ei a small weatherboard dwelling at the side of the railway bridge at Casino yesterday afternoon…

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Passenger Liner on Fire the Macdhui Danger Believed Passed Sydney

Tweed Daily · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 5

The Burns Philp passenger liner Macdhui sent out an S.O.S. call early this morning when a fire broke out in fuel oil tanks as the…

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Train Driver Gave Alarm Of Fire

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 8

The driver of a train travelling over the river bridge at Casino on Saturday saw flames leaping through the window of a cottage beside the…

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