Napier Is Ruined Eye Witnesses' Stories Big Blaze Wellington (N.z.) Tues
Napier, show place, and "Queen" town of the North Island, is ruined. THERE are few buildings left…
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Coal Blaze in City Council Hard Task to Keep Debate in Order
An inflammatory debate, needing all the Lord Mayor's authority to keep it within Parliamentary limits, yesterday flared up when coal was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thieves Blamed For Fire At Concord
Thieves are believed to have been responsible for a fire in a weatherboard cottage at Burwood-rd., Concord, last night. The owner and occupier. Leslie…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire. Canowindra
Mr. S. Sharpe, of Robinsonstreet, had a narrow escape yesterday when a fire broke out at his home, a weatherboard cottage. He was asleep on the verandah and awakened Just in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire in Maloja's Hold Wheat & Wool Damaged
A CABLE received in Sydney yesterday stated that a [?] occurred in No. 7 hold of the P. and O. Royal Mall liner Maloid on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Board of Fire Commissioners of N.s.w
Tenders are invited for the erection of Fire Stations at Narrabeen and 'Rockdale. Tenders returnable by noon on Monday 23rd February, 1931, and addressed to The President,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire on the Maloja. From Australia to London
According to cable advices received from London, a slight fire occurred on the R.M.S. Maloja last Sunday morning in No. 7 lower hold, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Firemen Collapse. Fumes from Cellar Fire. YOUNG
A fire which broke out in the large cellar of W. F. Weeden's shop in Burrowa-street, Young, early this morning, threatened the main business block of the town. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Buildings Dynamited To Stop Fire Spreading. (By Wireless Telephone.)
The "Manawatu Daily Times" has received the following message from Napier:—"Houses shaken down. Fire has broken out. No water is…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Disastrous Fire. Damage Estimated at £30,000. BRISBANE
A fire at Charleville late to-night caused damage estimated at £30,000. Buildings on the corner of tile two main streets were totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire on the Maloja. Australian Cargo Damaged. LONDON, Feb. 2
A small fire occurred on the Maloja, on Sunday morning, in No. 7 lower hold, containing wheat, wool, skins, wines, and basils from Australia. The hold was flooded, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire's Rage Damage Is £100,000 Charleville Inferno Toowoomba (Q.)
Damage estimated at £100,000 was caused by a fire which swept through the business centre of Charleville last night…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Trapped by Fire. Girl Fatally Burned. Boy in Critical Condition. Perth
At Margaret River yesterday afternoon, Ida Nllsson Lynn (3), and Jim Nilsson Lynn (13), were trapped by a bushfire while walking home from school. The girl was fatally burned,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bushfire Trap Girl Dead : Brother Critical PERTH
Ida Nilsson Lynn, 9, and her brother, Jim. aged 13, were trapped by a bush fire on the Margaret River, when walking home along a bush track from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fierce Bushfire. Coal Mine in Danger. Flames Rage for Two Days. Perth
For two days a fierce bushfire threatened the co-operative coal mine at Collie, but the work of the Collie brigade and 50 other workers limited the damage to a little over £100…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Terrible Calamity in New Zealand. Disastrous Earthquake and Fire. Hawkes Bay Towns Swept by Flames. Heavy Toll of Killed and Injured. Buildings Dynamited at Napier—Hastings in Ruins. Hospital Collapses and Nurses Perish
Hawkes Bay Province, in New Zealand, has been the scene of an appalling disaster—so terrible that its extent can only be estimated. Severe earthquakes began yesterday morning and the City of Napier and the neighbouring town of Hastings were soon in flames…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"A Puzzling Fire."
"It is one of the most puzzling fires I have ever investigated," said the Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clarke) at Ryde Court yesterday, when he inquired into a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Castlereagh-st. Fire
[?] scattered in Castlereagh-st. this afternoon when two fire engines raced down to St. James' Theatre Electric wires on the street awning fused, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Picture Theatre Fire
The Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clarke) held an inquiry at Ryde Courthouse yesterday concerning a fire which destroyed the Ritz Picture Theatre, on Great North-road. Ryde,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charleville Fire Damage Totals £50,000
CHARLEVILLE, Wednesday. -- A fire last night wiped out two blocks in the main business section. The damage is estimated at £50,000…
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