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Fires & bushfires, 1936

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Big Melbourne Fire Many Workers Thrown Idle Thousands of Pounds Damage Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 2

Machinery and woollen goods valued at many thousands of pounds were destroyed by a fire which broke out in the mills of Eastaugh, Ltd., Richmond,…

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Items of News Fire Brigade at Wyalong

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 July 1936 · page 2

The Board of Fire Commissioners visited West Wyalong on Friday and agreed with the Bland Shire Council to extend the fire brigade service to…

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Palestine Trouble Arabs Fire on Bus Repulsed by Troops JERUSALEM

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 July 1936 · page 1

A lively engagement, occurred yesterday between Arab bandits and British troops near Nablus. The bandits fired upon a Jewish…

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Our Fire Brigade

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 July 1936 · page 2

Few amongst us fully realise what a debt of gratitude we owe, as a community, to the Fire Brigade. The individual members of the brigade spend…

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Fire!

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 July 1936 · page 2

The clanging of a fire alarm breaks through the stillness of the night, and echoes away on the crisp air. It is repeated. There is a pause—sinister…

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Illabo Hotel Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 16 July 1936 · page 2

The Illabo hotel caught alight, and was within an ace of being razed to the ground, on Friday morning. At about 3 o'clock. Mr. Frank Wright, licenser…

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Fire Protection Discussed by Council

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 16 July 1936 · page 3

Mr Holm reported to the Shire Council meeting last week on the visit of the Board of Fire Commissioners. As was pointed out in the…

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New Fire Station for Young

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 July 1936 · page 4

At an inspection of the Young Fire Station, the president of the Board of Fire Commissioners (Mr. T. J. Smith, M.L.C.) announced that a new and…

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Fire Brigade Proposal Adopted by Council

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 16 July 1936 · page 1

For the purpose of dealing with the proposals made regarding the establishment of a Fire Brigade at Hillston by the Commissioners of the New…

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School Fire Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1936 · page 4

The Parramatta District Coroner, Mr. H. Richardson Clark, held an inquiry to-day into the destruction by fire on June 26 of a double classroom…

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Fire at Leeton Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1936 · page 5

The ringing, of the fire bell at Leeton at 4 o'clock this morning aroused the residents. The fire was located in the shop of E. Wilson, bootmaker…

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Picture Theatre Fire Wyong

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 July 1936 · page 4

The whistling of a locomotive at 2 o'clock this morning gave the alarm of a fire which in an hour and a half destroyed the Coronet picture theatre…

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Destructive Fire £20,000 Damages in Melbourne Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 July 1936 · page 2

Spreading with remarkable rapidity a fire destroyed the knitting mills of G.W. Buller, Pty., Ltd., Stuart-street, South Melbourne, on Saturday night,…

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City Blaze Five Firemen Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1936 · page 2

An explosion of two drums of oil injured five firemen who were fighting a blaze at the Commonwealth Drug Co.'s premises in Kippax street,…

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Local & General Fire at Lockhart

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1936 · page 2

About 7 p.m. on Thursday, Mr. Allan Jones, carrier, who resides on the second story of Mr. E. Wilson's boot repairing shop in…

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Wagga Boy Scouts Hold Annual Camp Fire Ball a Successful Function

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 July 1936 · page 7

More than 200 dancers attended the annual camp fire ball of the Wagga Boy Scouts' Association, held in the Wonderland Theatre, on Wednesday…

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Climax Approaching Issue Still Considered Doubtful Bombing Near Gibraltar British Destroyer Returns Fire London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 July 1936 · page 1

The civil war in Spain is approaching a climax. The next few days may decide the destiny of Spain. The Government issues what is becoming a…

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Fire Envelops Township Several Shops Gutted

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 July 1936 · page 2

Townspeople of Wood burn, near Ballina, fought for more than four hours early on Thursday to save the town from destruction…

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Fire Brigade Flag at Half Mast

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 July 1936 · page 2

In honor of Senior Fireman Samuel Hegarty, of Five Dock, who died in Sydney on Friday following burns sustained last Monday when trapped with…

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Melp. Fire Thousands of Pounds Damage Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 27 July 1936 · page 1

DAMAGE estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by a spectacular blaze which occurred at 5 a.m. yesterday at premises…

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