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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1931

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Exciting Rescues Big Baradine Fire Police Save Township

Western Age · Wednesday 8 April 1931 · page 2

Police action in pulling down a store in the main street of Baradine early on Sunday morning probably saved the whole town…

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Destructive Fire At Tu'laraore Picture Theatre Gulled

Western Age · Wednesday 8 April 1931 · page 3

But for the fact that torrential rain was falling and a north-east wind was blowing, it is almost certain that the disastrous fire which…

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Destructive Fire At Tullamore Picture Theatre Gutted

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 5

But for the fact that torrential rain was falling and a north-east wind was blowing, it is almost certain that the disastrous fire which…

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Exciting Rescues Big Baradine Fire Police Save Township

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 5

Police action in pulling down a store in the main street of Baradine early on Sunday morning probably saved the whole town…

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Magnificent Homestead Burnt Out

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 1

Would be a great loss, but the prices at which the Ladies' Shoes and Slippers are being offered at the Ladies' Shoe Parlour, Talbragar Street, mean a…

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Fire Brigade Matters

Western Age · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 2

Mr. Barber Divisional Inspector from headquarters, Sydney, visited Cobar during the week to inquire into various matters concerning the local…

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Double Fire at Kandos

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 16 April 1931 · page 6

A fire broke out at 8 p.m. on Thursday last at Kandos in a six-roomed fibre resilience, owned and occupied by Edgar Stolzenhein, who was then…

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Fire Commissioners Tour Of Inspection

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 16 April 1931 · page 5

Travelling the country in a new Cadillac tourer, members of the N.S.W. Board of Fire Commissioners visited Gilgandra on Tuesday and…

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Cottage Destroyed Curious Fire at Kandos

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 17 April 1931 · page 2

Peculiar circumstances surrounded the destruction by fire last week-end of a six-roomed fibro residence of Mr. E. Stolzenheim of Dunn Street, Kandos…

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Our Fire Fighters Visit of Inspector

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 3

Inspector B. Barber, Divisional Inspector of the Fire Board of N.S.W., mads his half-yearly visit of inspection to the local brigade on Thursday…

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Country Killing Fire Rekindled Arthur Cleaver at Trangie

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 5

On Saturday last, to a representative gathering of Trangie graziers Mr. A. W. Cleaver of Dubbo had a word to say on country killing so long a vexed…

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"Into Great Big Burning Fire" "If She Told a Lie"

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 23 April 1931 · page 6

A pretty little girl, the daughter of a haggard man, who, charged with murder, sat in the dock at the Dubbo Circuit Court on…

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Western Movement. Spreading Like Fire in a Grass Paddock

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 8

The number of interested people who have called at the headquarters of the Western Movement in Dubbo, from every corner of the district…

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Local and General Fire Brigade

Western Age · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 2

Mr. Richardson, Fourth Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, spent a few days inspecting the local station. He will appoint three new…

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Dreadful Railway Disaster 41 Killed Carriages Catch Fire Terrifid Passengers. Fail To Stop Train Driver Arrested Cairo

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 4

Forty-one were killed end 41 injured in the worst disaster in the history of the Egyptian railways. An express excursion train, crowded…

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Dreadful Railway Disaster 41 Killed Carriages Catch Fire Terrifid Passengers Fail To Stop Train Driver Arrested

Western Age · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 1

Forty-one were killed and 41 injured in the worst disaster in the history of the Egyptian railways. All express excursion train, crowded…

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Destructive Fire

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 2

At 10.15 on Monday night, a weatherboard cottage, occupied by Mr. A. J. Dollisson, in Taylor-street, was practically destroyed by fire four…

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Fire Fighters

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 3

At a largely attended meeting at Baradine it was unanimously resolved to from an organisation to be known as the voluntary fire fighters,…

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EARTHQUAKES Evidence in New Zealand. How Fires Started. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 1

The fires which followed the big Napier earthquake originated mainly in chemists' shops, according to the evidence given at the Commission…

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Shop Blaze. Woman Awakened During Night. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 1

Mrs. H. C. Eastall, of Punchbowl, was awakened early this morning by the smell of smoke, and on investigating she found her shop ablaze…

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