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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1930

2,577 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 129

Cabramatta Fire

The Biz · Friday 13 June 1930 · page 2

An unoccupied house, owned by Mr. J. Heckenberg, in Railway-st., Cabramatta, was totally destroyed by fire at 4.30 a.m. on Saturday…

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Fire at Ballina. Two Shops Destroyed. Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 June 1930 · page 16

The contents of two shops were destroyed by fire and water early this morning, and the damage is estimated at £2000. The fire broke out in the building occupied…

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Gutter on Fire Lighted Match Thrown Into Petrol Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 June 1930 · page 6

A Wall of fire is something often spoken or heard of but very rarely seen. People in the vicinity of Rover Motor Garage Edward Street. Cessnock, this afternoon…

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Death Leap Into Sea of Fire 49 Perish in Great Sea Catastrophe BOSTON

Daily Pictorial · Friday 13 June 1930 · page 4

Forty-nine lives were lost when the oil tanker Pinthis became a raging inferno of blazing petrol, after a collision with the…

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Fire at Sea. Night of Horror. Oil Tanker in Flames. Over 40 Lives Lost. New York, June 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 June 1930 · page 11

The collision off Scituate between the coastal passenger steamer Fairfax and the tanker Plnthis in Wednesday night's fog turns out to have been a…

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Suspicious Fires Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 14 June 1930 · page 6

The Collingwood police are investigating a series of fires which broke out at 12.40 a.m. to-day in the machinery room at the furniture factory of the…

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Family's Escape Early Morning Blaze At Lithgow LITHGOW

Evening News · Saturday 14 June 1930 · page 2

A cottage at Lidsdale was totally destroyed by fire. It was occupied by Mr. T. Andrews, who will suffer a heavy loss, as his furniture was not insured. It is…

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S. Army's "Day of Fire"

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 June 1930 · page 6

A "day of fire" is the term applied to the meetings Commissioner and Mrs. Maxwell will hold on Thursday next, June 10. in the Congress Hall,…

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Two Suspects Police Fire Two Shots

The Sun · Saturday 14 June 1930 · page 3

While a police patrol car was in Oxford-street. Paddington, at 1.30 this morning, Constables Wailes and Jackson saw two men walk away from the…

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The Bushman's Hour. Camp Fire Reflections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 June 1930 · page 11

Night had come with that clear frostlness peculiar to the Eastern Palls of New England where the mountains steal the sun before its time The great log fire cast a red glow…

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Fire Damages Cafe at Newcastle Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 June 1930 · page 8

A fire at a care on the Newcastle beach promenade destroyed a kitchenette and contents and damaged two other rooms this morning. The building is the…

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Fire Horror in School 28 Perish When Film Ignites MOSCOW

Evening News · Saturday 14 June 1930 · page 1

TWENTY-EIGHT were burned or crushed to death when a panic occurred to-day while a film was being shown in a school at Kharkov to 500 children and their parents…

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The Rest of the News Items from All Quarters "Day of Fire"

Evening News · Saturday 14 June 1930 · page 6

A "Day of Fire" is the term applied to the meetings which commissioner and Mrs. Maxwell will hold in the Salvation Army Congress Hall,…

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3 A.m. Blaze Boy Gives Alarm Cars Damaged

The Sun · Monday 16 June 1930 · page 11

A wager made last night in a jocular manner by Mrs. Harry Coe, of Bayswater-road. Darlinghurst, to her nephew, James…

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Country News. Fires at Barraba. Barraba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 June 1930 · page 12

On Thursday night a fire destroyed Mr. R. G. Chapman's homestead. Allandale, at Barraba. It is surmised that a log rolled from the fireplace in the…

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Amateur Golfers Clash £4,000 Garage Fire

Evening News · Monday 16 June 1930 · page 14

Competitor in the N.S.W. Amateur Golf Championship at kensington yo-day From left: Messrs, keane, Lee Brown, Ruwald, Harrison…

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£4000 Damage in Rushcutter's Bay Garage Blaze Eight Motors Burnt in 3 a.m. OUTBREAK Chained Alsatian Dog Perishes : Rescue Attempts in Vain £120 in Notes Go When Office Engulfed by Flames

Evening News · Monday 16 June 1930 · page 7

DAMAGE estimated at £4000 was caused by a fire which broke out in a garage occupied by Mrs. E. Coe, in Oswald-lane, Rushcutter'a Bay, early to-day. Eight motor cars were destroyed, and a prize Alsatian…

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Cars, Dog and Money Destroyed by Fire Early Morning Blaze at Darlinghurst

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 5

Eight motor cars were destroyed a valuable Alsatian dog burnedl to death and £140 in notes lost when a garage. occupied by Mrs. Harry Coe,…

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Fire Destroys Cottage. Adelong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 12

Last night fire destroyed a cottage and [?] contents at Adelong. The cottage was [?] property of Mr. Robert Harold Perkins, [?] was not insured. The occupant of the…

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Building Up the Fire at Little Cost

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 7

Some Hints That Should Assist THE good housekeeper hates to waste such things as sawdust, small coal, and coaldust, so here are…

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