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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1932

1,916 stories in Sydney's papers · page 85 of 96

Flame-lit City and Big Crowd Townsville's Fire Arouses All Citizens Many Crushed Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 November 1932 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE'S record fire last night provided a spectacle that will not be forgotten. The blaze that destroyed over…

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Lined Up and Shot Down by Machine Guns Horrifying Story of Murder and Pillage in Manchuria Village Blaze Women and Children Among Victims, It Is Stated London

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 November 1932 · page 1

A STATEMENT containing a horrifying story of murder and pillage by Japanese troops, has been received by the Chinese…

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Sparrows to Blame for Fire Built Nest Against the Kitchen Stove Pipe Jet Was Lit Murwillumbah. Fri

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 November 1932 · page 5

BUILDING a nest against the kitchen stove pipe of Mr. M. McNamara's home in Hartigan Street, Murwillumbah, a number of…

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The Fire

The Sun · Sunday 27 November 1932 · page 40

The breeze is east; and riding high Across the velvet summer sky The sleepy stars hold rule. Through groves of silhouetted pines…

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Babies Slept Through Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 November 1932 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--While W. S. Hosking's house at Fullarton was blazing last night in a fire which completely gutted it…

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Fire in Paint Factory. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 November 1932 · page 10

Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by a fire to-night at the point factory of Chas Atkins and Son, Pty., Ltd, South Melbourne…

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Wheat Paddocks Destroyed by Fire. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 November 1932 · page 10

Damage estimated at over £5000 was caused by a fire which destroyed about 1500 acres of wheat crop near Three Springs, about 175 miles north of Perth. Beginning in W…

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Narrabri Fire. Draper's Stock Destroyed. NARRABRI

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 November 1932 · page 6

The District Coroner (Mr. A. G. Hardwick) held an inquiry into the cause of a fire which destroyed a shop in Maitland-street, Narrabri, occupied by Nicholos Michael, and owned by…

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Beat the Bullets Arrest After Wild Chase Police Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 November 1932 · page 1

Disregarding police bullets a young man early yesterday morning raced through Paddington…

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Police Fire Many Shots Chase After a Suspect Paddington Thrills

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 November 1932 · page 6

PURSUING a suspect through streets and lanes at Paddington early yesterday morning, Constables Rae and Carlisle, between them, fired…

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Did Boys Start the Fire? House Destroyed--story to Police

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 November 1932 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Week-end fires in three houses in the suburbs are being investigated. After a house at Black Rock was…

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Crops Destroyed. Fires in Western Australia. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 November 1932 · page 13

Approximately 1500 acres of standing crop, about 1000 bags of wheat, and many acres of stubble were destroyed in the Mullewa district, about 240 miles north of Perth, as the…

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Fire-fighting Appliances Exempt from Sales Tax

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 November 1932 · page 7

As a result of representations made by the Graziers' Vigilance Committee on behalf of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales and other graziers' associations of the…

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Commercial Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers.) Insurance Moneys. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd., v W. H. Price, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 November 1932 · page 6

This was an action by the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd., to recover moneys paid to the defendant, W. H. Price, Ltd., under a policy of marine insurance in respect of…

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Bush Fire Brigades. Intensive Organisation in the Riverina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 November 1932 · page 9

ALBURY, Tuesday.—The severe burst of heat during the past few days has caused farmers and others to engage in an intensiva organisation of bush fire brigades. It was…

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Bus Merger Hangs Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 November 1932 · page 7

Messrs. F. H. Stewart,. M.H.R., Gordon Sargeant, and C. H. Hicks have secured options, and paid deposits, on 311…

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Fire Destroys Homestead. Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 December 1932 · page 12

A homestead near The Dungeon, 14 miles from Parkes, with its contents, was destroyed by fire. The place was the property of Mr. Alfred William Floyd, an old resident of the…

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Fire Damages War Service Home

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 December 1932 · page 4

A five-roomed house was badly damaged by fire in William Edward Street, Longueville, last night. The blaze was extinguished by Crow's…

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Fire in Hospital Perth

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 December 1932 · page 8

The lives of 35 helpless patients in the Infectious Diseases Hospital at West Subiaco were jeopardised this afternoon when a fire broke out in a…

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Electric Iron. Sets House on Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 December 1932 · page 12

A fire, which was thought to have been caused by an electric iron left burning while the family was out, did considerable damage to a house in Edward William-street,…

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