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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1931

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Clothing on Fire Girl Dies in Hospital Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 2

Wilhe[?]mina M'Bride, aged 37 yean, of Bank street, South Melbourne, and her daughter Doris, aged 16 years, were seriously burned yesterday when…

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Fire Commissioners Visit Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 4

The New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners, in which Alderman E. E. Collins (Mayor of Wagga) represents the country councils, will visit Wagga…

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Wagga Fire Brigade Board's Official Inspection Firemen Highly Complimented

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 22

An official inspection was made this morning by members of the New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners of the Wagga Fire Brigade…

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Items of News Junee Fire Injury

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 2

An inquiry is to be held into the fire with destroyed an 8-roomed wooden building in William Street, Junee, last week. The building which is over 40…

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Fire Board Visit Of Commissioners Tribute To Wagga Brigade Demonstrations At Ballarat

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 2

Members of the New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners visited Wagga on Saturday. They left Sydney by motor car a week ago, and…

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Fire Near Gundagai

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 10 March 1931 · page 1

At Outennella Farm, 4 miles from Gundagai, a weatherboard house, owned by Messrs Glasscouk Bros and tenanted by Mr. Jack Crane and…

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If Cannery Caught Fire Brigade Could Not Save It Fire Appliances in Neglected State Engine in Readiness to Boost, But Dam Dry

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 10 March 1931 · page 1

If a fire broke out at the Leeton cannery or the Dormitories the fire brigade, efficient as it is, and no matter how quickly it…

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London Fire Tea and Rubber Warehouse Weather Hampers Firemen London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 1

Firemen are still fighting the flames in the tea and rubber warehouse which on Saturday caught fire at Butler's wharf, near the Tower Bridge…

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Shocking Burns Woman in Hospital Fire in Laundry Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 1

Mrs. Elizabeth Ingle, aged 67 years, of Leichhardt, was admitted to the Prince Alfred Hospital this morning suffering from shocking burns to the…

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Head in Fire Sudden Seizure Man Shockingly Burned Milton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 1

Suffering from shocking burns, Robert Yates, formerly a picture show proprietor, was admitted to the Berry Hospital last night. Yates had been…

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Two Fire Calls

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 4

The Wagga Fire Brigade, yesterday received two calls. The first, at 10.40 o'clock in the morning, was to a heap of burning rubbish on the river bank…

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Bendigo Fire Woman's Thrilling Rescue Bendigo

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 9

Mrs. Mary Smeaton had a fortunate escape from death early this morning when she was rescued from her burning home at Bendigo. A fire…

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The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont As Told by Himself. Lighting a Fire

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 6

Up to this time I had not built myself a shelter of any kind. At night I simply slept in the open air on the sand, with only my blankets around…

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Fire at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1931 · page 2

The Junee fire brigade an Saturday morning, at 11 o'clock, received a call to a fire which was in a wash house at the rear of a cottage in…

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Fire at Junee Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1931 · page 1

At 7.45 o'clock yesterday morning the Junee brigade was called out to a fire which was found to be in a modern brick shop the Sydney cafe…

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Mt. Morgan Mine Serious Outbreak of Fire ROCKHAMPTON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1931 · page 1

A serious fire has broken out in the smelter bins at Mount Morgan mine. Every effort is being made to get the fire under control. It is…

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Mount Morgan Mine Serious Outbreak of Fire Rookhampton (Q.)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1931 · page 2

A serious fire has broken out in the smelter bins at Mount Morgan mine. I Every effort it being made to get the I fire under control. It is feared that…

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Council Meeting Interrupted by Fire Alarm

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 2

At 10 o'clock on Tuesday night the sitting of the Junee Municipal Council was interrupted by the fire alarm. The Mayor (Ald. R. Cuttle)…

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Items of News Fire at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 2

The Junee Fire Brigade had another call on Tuesday night. The alarm sounded and it was found to be a gr[?] fire at the northern end of…

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Mt. Morgan Mine Serious Fire Whole Works Menaced Rockhampton (Q.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 5

The fire which has been raging for, more than 24 hours threatens to destroy the entire Mt. Morgan mine works Great damage has already been…

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