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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1935

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Boys Fatally Burned Fire Follows Explosion Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 8

Two boys were burned to death in am explosition followed by a fire in a workshop at East Brunswick to-day. They were Leslie Smith, aged 14 years,…

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Big Melbourne Fire Threatens 20,000 Bales of Wool Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 3

More than 20,000 bales of wool valued at £240,000, were threatened with destruction to-day when a fire occurred in the six-storey building of…

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Coolamon Fire Brigade

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 4

The statement of revenue and expenditure of the Coolamon Fire District was read at the Shire Council meeting on Tuesday. The statement…

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Big Fire North Shore Gas Works Stern Fight to Save Tanks Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 1

There were some anxious moments at North Sydney this afternoon, when a fire broke out at the North Shore Gas Company's works at Oyster Bay…

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Fire at Albury

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 4

Due to sparks from the flue of a bath-heater, rafters in the roof of the Albury Grammar School, Tribune street, Albury, caught alight yesterday…

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Fire at Albury Albury

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 1

Due to sparks from the flue of a bath-heater, rafters in the roof of the Albury Grammar School caught allght yesterday morning. The flames were…

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Fierce Fire Blazing Tar at Gasworks Explosion Danger Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 1

Forty firemen fought strenuously yesterday afternoon to prevent raging fire at the North Shore Gas Com-pany's works, Oyster Bay, from…

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Grass Fire at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1935 · page 2

The Junee fire brigade received a call to grass fire on the Junee common at 3 o'clock yesterday. The fire was soon under control, but not before…

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Lorry Destroyed by Fire

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 4

While proceeding from The Pinnacles to Wagga last week with a load of wood, a motor truck belonging to Mr. H. W. M. Port was destroyed by…

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Lorry Destroyed by Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 5

While proceeding from The Pinnacles to Wagga last week with a load of wood, a motor truck belonging to Mr. H. W. M. Post was destroyed…

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Motoring Prevention of Fire

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 3

There are, relative to the number of vehicles in service, so few serious car fires that most motorists look upon such a risk as a very remote…

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Fatal Cessnock Fire Police Inquiry Conducted Cessnock

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 7

The inquiry into the fire which destroyed (Baker's Furniture Emporium in Vincent street, Cessnock, on December 1, resulting in the death of…

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Gas Fires and Coke Supplies Report by Municipal Engineer Increased Gas Consumption Urged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 8

In his report to the municipal council at its meeting last night the municipal engineer (Mr. H. J. Chaston) remarked that with gas at 6/8 a…

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Busk Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 2

At about 2. o'clock yesterday afternoon the bush fire alarm sounded from the Cootamundra fire station. Ten cars immediately responded,…

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Chicago Fire Chicago

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 1

Six were killed and more than fifty injured, some seriously, when a fire swept a suburban road house cabaret before dawn on Sunday…

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Henty Fire Stop Gutted Over £3000 Damage HENTY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 1

FIGHTING desperately against great odds firemen at Henty yearly yesterday morning were unable to control a fire which…

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Disastrous Henty Fire General Store Gutted Estimated Damage Over £3000 Desperate Battle by Firemen

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 2

Fighting desperately against great adds, firemen at Henty yesterday morning Were unable to control a fire which broke out in Mr. E. G. Cohen's general…

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Fire at Ardlethan

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 2

At Ardlethan the surgery of A. E. Tooze, dentist, and the shop of W. M'Coy, chemist, were gutted by fire. Mr. Tooze saved all his stock, but…

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Last Sunday's Bush Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 2

The fire on Mr. W. F. Nash's property last Sunday is now alleged to have been caused by four boys who had been smoking out a rabbit in a…

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Fire at Ardlethan

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 4

A brick building in Ariah street, Ardlethan valued, at £2000 was totally destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. The fire started in McCoy's…

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