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Fires & bushfires, 1934

1,844 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 93

Clear Roads for Fire Brigades

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 June 1934 · page 8

In the weekly traffic bulletin issued by the Commissioner of Police attention of drivers is directed to the requirements of the regulations…

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Automobile, Fire, and General Insurance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 June 1934 · page 11

The Automobile, Fire, and General Insurance Co. of Australia. Ltd., in its accounts for the year ended April 30, shows a net profit of £6546, compared with £9785 the previous…

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Payments Remitted Flood, Fire, and Storm Relief

The Land · Friday 8 June 1934 · page 13

DURING sittings at Ungarie and Tullibigeal this week, the Wyalong Land Board dealt with seventy applications for relief on account of…

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Sat By Fire With Bullet In Heart Murder of Old Man: for What?

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 June 1934 · page 7

THE C.I.B. is sending detectives to Barry, a small farming village near Blayney, where yesterday…

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Five Good Batsmen Go Before Tea Bradman Was Unlucky; Out in Strange Manner Chipperfield & McCABE Try to Pull Game From Fire Nottingham

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 June 1934 · page 1

WINNING the toss in the first Test match against England to-day the Australian Eleven made a bad start, losing five of their best wickets for 153 runs. Fames, the Essex fast bowler, got both Woodfull and Ponsford, his…

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Man Without an Enemy, Dead Before His Fire Killed in Sleep Is Theory Weird Watch Beside Body Blayney

The Sun · Sunday 10 June 1934 · page 2

Asleep in his chair at his lonely home at Barry, nine miles from here, John Ryan (79) was shot dead in front…

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New Fire Engine for Auburn

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 1

Not only a new fire station will shortly be erected at Auburn, but a more powerful engine, is to be installed, according to the latest advise received by the…

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Man Burned to Death Mattress on Fire

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 June 1934 · page 6

Believed to have ignited the mattress of his bed while resting at lodgings in Kellett Street. Darlinghurst, early yesterday…

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Fire in Bedroom. Constable Rescues Old Many. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 June 1934 · page 10

After he had been driven back by [?] clouds of smoke three times. Consta[?] Cameron entered a house in Prahran to-day and brought our an old man who was [?]…

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Short Story Coals on the Fire

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 13 June 1934 · page 4

IT was one of those cold and blustering days in early autumn when one sets out for a game of golf in…

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Petrol Explodes. Man's Clothes Catch Fire. Critically Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 June 1934 · page 14

When the petrol tank of a motor car exploded and burst into flames at the works of Larke, Neave, and Carter in Parramatta-road, Camperdown, yesterday afternoon, Cuthbert…

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Man Was Mass of Flames Fire Follows Big Explosion In Garage Grave State

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 June 1934 · page 6

CUTHBERT WILLIAM THOMPSON, 38, sheet-metal worker, of Gallipoli Street, Lidcombe was badly burned from head to foot…

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A Dangerous Fire

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 June 1934 · page 17

OWEN ORESSWELL ([?]bri).—We had a grass fire recently at school. Our teacher decided to burn the grass around the school as it was dangerous. He asked three big boys…

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Fire at Bakery

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 14 June 1934 · page 5

When William Cash, an employee, arrived at Downey's bakery in George Parramatta, early on Tuesday morning, her found the interior of the…

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'Phone Delay Fire Inquiry Story

The Sun · Thursday 14 June 1934 · page 21

That the fire at the Barnes Bacon Co., Ltd.'s works at Homebush Bay a few minutes after midnight on May 23, was accidentally caused, and…

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Bucket Brigade Conquers Sawmill Blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 8

Twenty men formed a bucket brigade last night, and for more than an hour fought a fire which broke out near the furnace room of the…

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Bacon Factory Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 12

An Inquiry into the cause of a fire which destroyed the nor[?]rn section of [?]s's [?]con factory, at Homebush Bay on May 23, was held at Burwood Court yesterday. The…

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Motor Lorry on Fire

The Propeller · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 7

Last Friday afternoon motor lorry caught fire in Apsley Street, Penshurst, causing severe damage to the body and engine of the truck. The Hurstville…

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Man's Clothes Catch Fire

The Biz · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 2

When the petrol tank'of a motor car exploded and tourst into flames at the works of Larke, Neave, and Carter, in Parram&tta-road, Camperdown, on…

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Proposal for Fire Brigade. Coonabarabran

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 12

The Fire Commissioner (Mr. T. J. Smith[?] visited Coonabarabran yesterday with a [?] to establishing a vol[?] fire, brigade. Mr. Smith said that a brigade was a vital [?]…

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