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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

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Boy's Death From Burns Played with Fire in Street Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 6

While playing with fire in the street with a number of other children near his parents' rome at portland yesterday, Joseph M'Cu[?] stopped too…

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Workshop on Fire

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 2

Shortly after 8 o'clock on Saturday night a fire occurred in a shed, used as a workshop, in premises occupied by Mr. E. I. Morrison,…

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Car on Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 2

Mr. E. Lindbeck, of Eurongilly, had his car badly damaged by fire, and did not escape without personal injury…

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Suspicious Fire at Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 2

At midnight on Thursday folk attending a dance at the Parish hall saw flames in the vicinity of the Methodist Sunday School, and the…

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Car on Fire Mr. Lindbeck Injured

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 2

On Wednesday night, Mr. E. Lindbeck, of Eurongilly, had his car badly damaged by fire, and he himself did not es[?]sape. without personal injury…

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Suspicious Fire at Junee. Methodist Sunday School

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 3

Just on midnight on Thursday night, some people who were attending a dance at the Parish Hall, saw flames in the vicinity of the Method…

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A Sunday Fire Scare “Roast Beef?—No Sir”

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 2

But is the alarm hadn't been given in time there might have been more than roast beef, for at about 2.30 p.m. yesterday, smoke was noticed…

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Child Burned to Death House on Fire Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 2

The 14-months-old child of J. S. Spittle, of North Birchip, was burned to death yesterday when the house caught fire during the absence of the…

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Fire at Griffith

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 March 1933 · page 4

A Griffith message states that a fire which is believed to have been caused by an incen[?]iarist destroyed a large section of Mirrool House…

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Another Fire at Yerong

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 March 1933 · page 4

A fire started in Mr. James Hogan's property, Yerong, on Wednesday morning, about 11 o'clock, and burnt about 100 acres of grass. The fire was…

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Fire Brigade Called Out

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 March 1933 · page 4

Shortly after three o'clock yesterday afternoon the Wagga Fire Brigade received a call to a fire which had broken out in some fencing in the land at…

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Homes Destroyed by Fire While Owners at Show

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 23 March 1933 · page 3

Two fire occurred on Tuesday, one at Coorady[?] to which the home of Mr and Mrs G. D. Bassell was destroyed, and the other burning a home…

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Bush Fires at Tumut

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 2

Two bush fires are at present raging in the Tumut district. In the ranges above Tumut, towards Blowering, a fire has been burning since…

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Big Fire in Junee Straw Envelope Factory Gutted Spectacular Blaze Whole Town Lit Up

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 2

About 1.30 this morning one of the most spectacular and devastating fires in the history of Junee occurred, when the straw envelope…

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Grass Fires Near Junee

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 2

On Tuesday night some person set fire to the grass lands of Mr. W. D. Heffernan, grazier, of "Ballangoarrah," five miles from Junee. Fires were…

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Big Fire at Junee Straw Envelope Factory JUNEE

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 1

Half an hour before a fire broke out in the Australian Straw Envelope Factory the nightwatchman viewed the huge building and saw nothing…

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Victorian Bushfires Township Menaced Volunteers' Good Save. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 1

Spreading across the ranges with great rapidity a big bush fire menaced the town of Alexandria. Volunteers from several nearby towns were…

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Junee Fire Staw Envelope Factory

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 14

A spectacular fire occurred at Junee in the early hours of yesterday morning, resulting in the destruction of the well known straw envelope…

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Junee Fires

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 2

The deb[?]s from the straw envelope factory fire in Junee was still gurning on Sunday and yesterday, and required constant vigilance. The insurance…

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Second Attempt Another Fire at Mirrool Barracks Rubbish and Hessian Smouldering Under Verandah

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 4

What was apparently a second attempt to burn down Mirrool House Barracks, Griffith, the scene of the fire on Sunday night of last week…

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