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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1934

1,844 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 93

Forbes Fire. Charge of Conspiracy to Defraud Insurance Company. Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 15

The District Coroner (Mr. Arthur Sam) found, after inquiry, that the fire which partially destroyed the stock in the drapery and mercery store cf Nicholas Gaha, in…

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Hotel Fire. Owner's Charges at Inquiry. Attempted Frame-up Alleged. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 15

Remarkable allegations were made when the coroner (Mr. J. G. Muir) held an inquiry into the cause of the fire which destroyed the Great Central Hotel at 2.20 a.m. on…

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Digger Wants "Smith's" to Find Diggers Who Saved His Life Has Not Seen Them Since They Carried Him Off The Field Under Fire an Epic of Harbonnieres

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 7

ROSS writes to "Smith's"; "About 11 o'clock on the morning of…

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Epidemic of Fires Racecourse Grandstand Destroyed Perth

The Sun · Sunday 4 March 1934 · page 3

The third outbreak of fire in three nights occurred in Goomalling last night. On Wednesday evening the back…

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Where Smoke Is, There's Fire Canberra

Truth · Sunday 4 March 1934 · page 14

SERIOUS allegations, made against an officer of the Alice Springs half-caste station, again draw attention to the need for a comprehensive and…

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Fires in Shed and Hotel Big Blaze Narrowly Averted Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 6

WHEN drums of mineral turpentine exploded and burst into flames in a shed adjacent to the main building of F. Ash and Co.,…

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Scrub Fires. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 10

After devastating about 4000 acres of scrub country and valuable feed in the Adelaide hills, a fire, which broke out on Friday afternoon, was to-day confined to the foot of Mount…

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Police Investigating Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 10

Campsie police are investigating a suspicious fire which broke out in an unoccupied cottage in Morton-street. Lakemba, last night. When firemen from the Kogarah station…

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Police Investigate Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 7

Shortly before midnight a fire broke out in an unoccupied weather board cottage in Morton Street, Lakemba, and two rooms were slightly…

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Homes in Path of Big Fires Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 1

A BUSHFIRE, which started in the Adelaide hills on Friday afternoon, is still burning, and many homes arc menaced…

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Flames Close S.A. Fire Threatened School Adelaide

The Sun · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 7

Bushfires in the hills are still burning fiercely to-day. The flames went within 30 yards of the Stawell Girls' School, and between 40 and 60…

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Who Set Fire to Merrylands Cottage? Owner's Divorced Wife the Tenant's Sister "Suspicion, But No Evidence," Says Coroner

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 1

WHO set fire to a weatherboard cottage in Military-road, Merrylands, on the night of January 26? The matter has been investigated by the police, and the coroner has held an inquiry; but the question remains unanswered. Near the fence at the rear of the cottage were two varnish tins, a…

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Escaped From Bush Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Monday.--The fire which has been binning in the lofty ranges since Friday got out of control to-day. The strenuous…

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Fires in Ships. An Intricate Problem

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 5

It was recorded in the annual report of the Liverpool Underwriters' Association submitted recently at the general meeting that during last year…

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Fires at Forbes. Two Homes Destroyed. Incendiarism Suspected in One Case. Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 12

A fire which, it is suspected, was deliberately caused, destroyed Mr. William James Bedford's seven-roomed weatherboard home in Prince-street. Mr. Bedford returned this morning from…

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Fire Destroys Steamer. Coroner's Open Finding. Raymond Terrace

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 8

An inquiry was held by the coroner (Mr. C. W. Adam) this morning into the cause of the burning of the steamer Currumbene at Sea[?]am on January 9…

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Fires in City

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 17

Fire brigades from headquarters were called out to two fires in the city within a few minute; last night. Damage was done to the ground floor and contents of the factory of…

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Fire in Oxford Street

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 6

CLOUDS of smoke billowed from a fire which broke out in the premises of the Kangaroo Salt Company, Oxford Street, City, last…

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Fire Board Payments by City Council

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 6

Ald. Garden at the City Council meeting yesterday, protested against the payment of £16,023 to the Board of Fire Commissioners for…

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Destroyed by Fire. Inquiry re Steamer Currumbene

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 5

An inquiry was held on Monday last at Raymond Terrace into the cause of the burning of the steamer Currumbene at Seaham on January 9…

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