Wax Match Ban to Continue "Fire Menace Exists" ALSTONVILLE
At a meeting of the Tintenbar Shire Council to-day advice that an application to have the embargo on the sale of wax matches lifted had been…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
443 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 23
The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore. N.3.w. P.O. BOX 3. Telephones (2 lines) Nos. 2 and 48 Tuesday, January 9. 1940. To Prevent Bushfire Losses
THE PRESS, radio and films have, since the beginning of the summer months, been brought into use to warn the public of the…
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MOREE, Wednesday:—A few hours before the north-west mail train was due last night Mr. Gordon L. Gall, grazier, noticed that the railway bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Offence to Light Fires Officer Issues Warning
The officer in charge of the Lismore Fire Brigade (Mr. C. Welch) said last night that it was an offence for persons to light fires in the open without…
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The grain shed of Patterson and Scelle was badly damaged by fire early to-day. The foreman, Percival Greer (41)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inquiry Into Death of Eight Victims of Goomeri Fire
GOOMERI (Q'ld.), Thursday:— Allegations that blinds were nailed down where the fire escape joined the verandah and that the bottom…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goomeri Hotel Windows Boarded Up Evidence at Fire Inquest
GOOMERI, Friday:—"Windows outside my room and that of Mrs. Frahm were boarded up with battens about 3 or 4 inches apart…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wauchope Blaze Hotel and Billards Saloon Gutted WAUCHOPE
About 3 o'clock yesterday morning fire completely gutted the Star Hotel, owned by A. G. Byrnes, and L. Atkinson's billiards saloon, owned by L…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday:—Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed Logerenong Agricultural College,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Escaped From Fire in Night Clothes
LONDON, Saturday: — The Governor of Northern Ireland (the Duke of Abercorn) escaped with the Duchess and their grandchildren, all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →House Slightly Damaged by Fire Brigade's Prompt Action
Prompt action by Lismore fire brigade early on Saturday morning saved an old weatherboard house at Eastwood. Lismore, from destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Picture Patrons 'Sat Through' Fire Next Door Wellington (N.z.)
Fire raged through a block of buildings next door to a picture theatre on Saturday night, but the patrons of the theatre sat through the performance…
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TOKIO, Monday:—Five destroyed 2,000 houses at Shizouka, and 300 persons were killed in the conflagration. Troops are…
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GOOMERI, Tuesday:—The inquest into the deaths of eight victims of the Grand Hotel fire on December 23 was adjourned by the coroner to Murgon…
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LONDON, Monday:—Reports received in Paris from the German frontier say that four large factory and shop fires have occurred…
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A fire destroyed 8500 homes at Shizouka, and 300 were killed, while there are more than 50,000 homeless…
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When boards in the side of Mr. A. C. Fraser's house at Murwillumbah caught alight yesterday morning, Murwillumbah Fire Brigade was…
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MURGON, Thursday:—Evidence of identification of one of the victims of the Grand Hotel fire at Goomeri on December 23. was given…
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The Lismore Fire Brigade received a call late yesterday afternoon to Dawson-street, Lismore, to extinguish a fire which occurred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Malicious False Alarm to Fire Brigade
A false alarm of fire was received by the Lismore Fire Brigade about o'clock yesterday morning. The call came from the fire alarm at the…
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