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Fires & bushfires, 1936

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Burned to Death Queensland Hotel Fire Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 November 1936 · page 1

Trapped in his bed-room at the Woolooga Hotel at Kilkivan 80 miles from Brisbane, at 1 a.m. to-day Alexander Nethercott, aged 40 years, of…

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Fire at Forbes £10,000 Damage Forbes

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1936 · page 4

Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the general store of Arthur Hughes and Co., Rankins-street, this afternoon…

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Fire in Morgan-street

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 November 1936 · page 4

At 2.30 o'clock yesterday morning the Wagga Fire Brigade receiver a call from the alarm at the corner of Baylis and Tompson-streets to an…

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Attempt to Fire Ship Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 November 1936 · page 4

At the Quarter Sessions to-day a sentence of two. years imprisonment was passed on Charles Henry Russell. aged 31 years, steward, for having…

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Arms Felt As If On Fire Nights of Agony with Neuritis

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 November 1936 · page 3

She had tried so many “remedies” —always without result that she had little faith in anything. But finally something induced her to try…

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Prolonged Dry Spell Bush Fire Warning Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1936 · page 8

The State Meteorologist (Mr. Scares) said to-day mat there was no Justification for pessimism regarding the prolonged dry…

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Early Morning Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 November 1936 · page 8

Early on Thursday morning a fire broke out in the engineering premises of W. Morrison, in Morgan Street. The alarm was given by a butcher…

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£13,000 Fire At Forbes

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 November 1936 · page 8

Damage estimated at between £1,000 and £14,000 was caused by one of the largest fires seen in Forbes, which late on Wednesday…

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Marcom's Yacht Experiments Lead to Fire Rome, Nov. 26

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 November 1936 · page 3

The Marchese Marconi was con ducting what are termed "mystery wireless experiments" aboard his yacht, Elettra, which is anchored off…

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FIRE-FIGHTING Use Of Wireless New Emergency Force Planned

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 November 1936 · page 12

Fast fire brigade tenders, equipped with wireless and capable of being rushed to danger points, either in the metropolitan area or to…

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Set Fire to House Also to Haystack and Barn FiVE Years' Imprisonment Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1936 · page 7

Oliver Harold Collits, aged 32 year, laborer, was sentenced to five years penal servitude at the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of arson…

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Sydney Fire £10,000 Worth of Damage Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 November 1936 · page 1

Fire broke out in Empire House. Clarence-street, Sydney last night and caused damage estimated at £10.000. The building is in the midst of a block…

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New Fire Engine

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 1 December 1936 · page 2

Capt. W. D. Fraser of the Lockhart Fire Brigade is pleased to learn that the station is being supplied with a more up-to-date fire…

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Disastrous Fire London Landmark LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 December 1936 · page 1

An outstanding landmark in the South East of London, visible from eight counties, namely, the Crystal Palace, which was a famous naval…

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Crystal Place Destroyed Spectacular London Fire Thousands of Sightseers Congest Streets Streams of Molten Glass Valuable Television Apparatus Destroyed in Blaze LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 December 1936 · page 1

The outstanding landmark in the southeast of London, visible from eight counties—namely, the Crystal Palace, which was the famous naval training school during the Great War—spectacularly sank into insignificance when…

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Ferry Boat Fire Inquest To-Day SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 3 December 1936 · page 1

At the inquest to-day concerning the deaths of William Robert Duncan Findlay and Sydney Patrick Tight, victims of the fire which destroyed the…

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Excitement at Local Market Garden Horse and Cart Catch Fire

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 December 1936 · page 4

If ever a person’s ability was tested to a deep degree in thought and action, same was tested in the person of Mr. Mel Wardrop (captain of…

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Bush Fires Grafton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 December 1936 · page 6

Bush fires are raging in the Clarence River Valley and Grafton is ringed with flames. The Government Experiment Farm was menaced, but…

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Henty Bush Fire Brigade

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 December 1936 · page 3

There was a moderate attendance at the annual meeting of the Henty Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade, held in the Henty School of Arts. Councillor…

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Ferry Fire Inquest Opened Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 December 1936 · page 5

THE inquest was held yesterday into the deaths of William Robert Duncan Findlay, 28, a filter, and Sydney Patrick Tight, 38, a married…

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