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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

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Fire at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 May 1933 · page 2

At 1.30 o'clock yesterday morning a fire occurred in some hogging underneath an unoccupied weatherboard resilience at the corner of George and…

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Theft and Incendiarism Motor Mechanic Charged South Melbourne Garage Blaze Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 May 1933 · page 3

In the South Melbourne Police Court to-day, Llewellyn Wynne, a motor mechanic, of South Melbourne, pleaded guilty to charges of robbing…

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Fire on Electric Train Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 May 1933 · page 6

When an electric train was proceeding from Strathfield to Central Station to-day it caught fire and smoke entered one carriage. There was no way…

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Violent Intruder House Interior Wrecked Fire Started Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 May 1933 · page 1

Almost unparalleled acts of vandalism occurred in a house in Strathfield last night when an intruder, after smashing almost everything he could…

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Fire!

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 May 1933 · page 2

Last Friday night several town residents saw that they thought was rubble burning behind a house in the western portion of the form on the…

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Fire at Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 May 1933 · page 5

At 1.30 o'clock on Tueday a fire occurred in some bagging underneath an unoccupied weatherboard residence at the corner of George and…

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Fire at Cowra Maliciously Caused

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 May 1933 · page 5

A smoke-blackened empty benzine tin, with portion of one end cut open; several smaller tins (also empty)…

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Mexican Forest Fire Forty Families Perish Pueblo (Mex.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1933 · page 2

Forty lumbermen and members of their families are missing in a great forest fire which is raging in the Amujac forest. All are believed to have…

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Was Afraid of Big Fire So Called Out Briyade Burning Rubbish in Open-air Picture Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 May 1933 · page 1

There is as old adage that where there is smoke there is fire, and when Mr. Ron Thomson saw a cloud of smoke curling…

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Rydalmere Fire At Mental Hospital the Patients Removed Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 1

The courage and coolness of the nursing staff at Rydalmere Mental Hospital prevented a fire, which broke out in the institution early…

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Hospital Fire Good Save by Nurses SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 22 May 1933 · page 1

An outbreak of fire at the Rydalmere Mental Hospital on Saturday morning threatened to involve the whole of the buildings, but it was…

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Hospital Fire Good Save by Ruses Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 May 1933 · page 2

An outbreak of fire at the Rydalmere Mental Hospital early on Saturday morning threatened to involve the whole of the buildings, but it was…

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Fire Destroys Machinery and Shed

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 May 1933 · page 2

On Monday night a machinery shed on "The Oaks" property of Mr. George Thompson, a few miles from Cootamundra, was destroyed by fire…

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Local and General Fire on the Oaks

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 May 1933 · page 2

On Monday night a machinery shed on "The Oaks," the property of Mr. George thompson, a few miles out from Cootamundra, was totally…

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Fire at Printing Works Extensive Damage Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 May 1933 · page 2
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A fire at the printing works of Messrs. M'Carron and Stewart caused damage estimated at many thousands of pounds. The fire had a good held…

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Fell on Fire

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 May 1933 · page 2

Mrs. Bolton, of Oura, was cooking, porridge over an open fire yesterday morning when she suddenly became ill and fell on to the fire. She received…

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Ball of Fire London Phenomenon St. Paul's Almost Struck London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 May 1933 · page 1

Mystery surrounds the "ball of fire" with which the "Dairy Telegraph" says St. Paul's narrowly escaped being struck during a violent…

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Fire Brigade Tournament

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1933 · page 7

In the first round of the Wagga Fire Brigade tournament, which is being conducted in aid of the Wagga District Hospital, C. Craig 200 d. S…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire Grafton

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1933 · page 1

The hotel at Yamba, owned by William Zeitech, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The premises were covered by insurance. A cottage near…

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