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Fires & bushfires, 1932

1,916 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 96

Big Fire in Perth Valuable Stock Destroyed Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 April 1932 · page 6

One of the largest fires for man, years in Perth occurred this afternoon, when the two-storey warehouse and shop of Clarkson's, Ltd., paint…

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White Ants and Bushfires

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 April 1932 · page 5

We were travelling by train through a belt of country that had suffered badly in the recent bush fires. "These fires must do a lot of good as…

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Vats Blaze

The Sun · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 6

A shed on the premises of Colefix Construction. Ltd., Commercial-road, White Bay. was partly destroyed early this morning, when two vats of…

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City and Suburban Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 6

Fire bilgades from Enmore, Concord, and Burwood saved a house at 136 Wentworth-road, Burwood, from being burnt yesterday morning, after a fire had started by some unknown…

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Fire Destroys House

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 1

A ten-roomed weatherboard cottage in Beamish St., Campsie, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The house, which was unoccupied…

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Fire on Saros

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 4

A message from Townsville states that a fire occurred in the lower bunker of the Howard Smith steamer Saros at Townsville on Sunday…

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Fire Destroys Station

The Sun · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 11

TUMBARUMBA, Tuesday.-- A fire, for which no cause can be assigned, destroyed Wolseley Park Station last night. Mr. Riall, who was ill in…

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Serious Fire. Telephone Girl's Courage. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 10

The cause of a fire, which gutted two storeys and the basement of a building, owned ty Mrs. J. Sedgwick, of West Perth, and occupied by Clarksons, Ltd., in Murray-street, yesterday,…

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Severe Damage When Fire Sprinkler Bursts Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 1

Silk and other dress materials, valued at [?]5000, were severely damaged when a four-inch fire sprinkler burst on the ground floor of Buckley…

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Hello Girl Stuck to Her Job Carried on in Big Perth Blaze Dept.'s Tribute Perth

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 8

THE story of an heroic telephone girl was told by the Telephone Department to-day in connection with the fire at Clarkson's Ltd…

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Indian Unrest. Rioting at Allahabad. Police Fire on Crowds. Calcutta, April 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 9

Further rioting occurred at Allahabad yesterday. The police on several occasions were compelled to fire to disperse crowds of many thousands, who, incited by Congress agitators,…

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Fire in Tobacco Barn. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 April 1932 · page 12

Damage estimated at £100 uns caused bj [?] fire in a tobacco barn on a property on Nemingha Flats. The leaf in the barn was the property of Gilbert and Scherf, of…

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Fire in Garage. Fight to Save Petrol Tanks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 April 1932 · page 13

Firemen were faced with a difficult task yesterday, when fire broke out in Archibald Phillip Reynolds' garage, at the corner of Old South Head-road and Hall-street, Bondi…

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Fat Was in Fire It Blew Up And Widow was Smashed

The Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1932 · page 10

A gas-ring burning in Kevin McKeown's fish shop, in Strathway Arcade, Concord, this afternoon, and which set fire to fat which boiled…

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Volcanoes Threaten Fire and Lava People Ready to Flee for Lives Towns Shaken Buenos Aires

The Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1932 · page 6

HUNDREDS of thousands of people on both sides of the Southern Andes, in Chile and Argentine, are waiting in terror…

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Fire at Leichhardt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 April 1932 · page 10

Mr. Martin Gardiner's two-storied house in Jarrett-street, Leichhardt, was burnt out early yesterday morning. No one was in the house at the time…

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Bakery Damaged by Fire

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 April 1932 · page 6

Damage running into several hundred pounds was done to Buttel's Bakery, Lane Cove Road, Wahroonga, when it caught, fire last…

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Risk of Fire New Regulations for Tractors and Power-driven Harvesters

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 April 1932 · page 9

New and drastic regulations under the Careles Use of Fire Act have been gazetted by the N.S.W. Government. These provide that a spark arrester shall…

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Fires in Letter Boxes Congress Methods of Retaliation Calcutta

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 8

Rioters at Allahabad attacked three European railway engineers while they were inspecting damage which had been done to a bridge by…

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Fire at University

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 April 1932 · page 4

Brigades from Headquarters, George Street West, and Glebe last night extinguished a small fire, which broke out in the Medical School of…

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