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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1935

2,020 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 101

EXPLOSION. Rocket in Fire. Two Boys Killed. Five Others Injured. MELBOURNL

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 9

Two boys were killed, another was shockingly mutilated and three of their companions were seriously injured at Williamstown tonight, when a ship's rocket which they had…

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Stranger Fires Sleeper's Peril Attack at Coogee

The Sun · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 17

TWO shots were fired at Sydney Royston Dunn, 19, of Beach-street, Coogee, as he lay in bed early to-day, by a stranger who fled into the darkness. The bullets, which missed Dunn,…

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Fire Damage, £10,000

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- A fire at the Metropolitan Board of Works storage depot. South Melbourne, today caused £10,000 damage…

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Fire in Railway Storeroom. Bathurs[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 14

While steady rain fell a fire broke out in a large storeroom at the Bathurst railways yards. The room was burning [?]ely when the brigade was called, but the fire was under…

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Cottage Detroyed by Fire. Cootamundra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 14

Fire destroyed a five-roomed weatherboard cottage in Bourke-street. Co[?]tamundra early this morning. The occupants, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Coggan, were away on holidays in…

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After Three Years Bugles Sound "Cease Fire!"

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 13

Sharp at noon on June 14 last the penetrating notes of bugles were heard along the 75-mile Gran Chaco war front in South America, where Bolivians and…

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Fire in Garage. Danger of Explosion. Employees Risk Lives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 13

Employees and firemen risked their lives yesterday in extinguishing a fire which broke out in a cellar, containing five 500-gallon petrol tanks, below Grimes' Parking Station in…

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Building Research In order that builders may reap the benefit of the research work of the Building Research Station of Great Britain and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Technological Museum of Sydney, we publish the queries that are submitted for research and the replies given to them on this page each week. Fire Resistance of Building Materials and Structures

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 15

The Standards Association of Australia announces that as British Standard Specification No. 476-1932 for Fire Resistance, Incombustibility and Non-Inflammability of Building…

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Early Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 2

Sometimes there comes a sudden flash. Of long-forgotten things, When woodsmoke rises curly From a country chimney early,…

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Cronulla Fire Brigade

The Propeller · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 3

A presentation will be made next Thursday night (8th instant) at the Cronulla Theatre, by Councillor Monro, M.L.A., to Mr. F. Creeke, the…

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Fire Menaced 300 Chickens

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 7

Three hundred chickens were in danger of being incinerated last night when a fire broke out in their brooder in Oxford Avenue, Lidcombe…

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Warmth in the Home Gas Fires in Vogue

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 18

Lecturing before the Rotary Club, Mr. Charles Hibberd explained the advances that have been made in recent years in domestic heating appliances. The most…

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Horse Suffered Agony Hug Trailed Through Fire

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 7

When a horse rug, which had slipped off the hindquarters of a horse in a Lidcombe paddock, caught alight the animal was badly burned…

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FIRE-BUGS Trains Ablaze Secret Out Madrid

The Sun · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 1

ANNOUNCING that arrests have been made, but giving no names or details, the Minister for the Interior, Senor Portela,…

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Bush Fire Traps Two In Car Man and Woman Escape Flames

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 1

FRIENDS have just learnt of the part played in a real outback drama by Mrs. Barbara Allen and Mr. W. D. Simson,…

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Two Survivors Thousand Chickens Burned in Poultry Farm Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 9

A thousand chickens were incinerated early this morning when a brooding-house at the poultry farm of Lanyon and Sons, Pennant Hills…

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Shot Dead by Infatuated Russian Murderer Suicides Motorist's Effort To Save Woman From Revolver Fire Gladesville Drama

The Sun · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 1

SIDESTEPPING a swiftly advancing motor car, the driver of which had endeavored to frustrate the cold-blooded crime, a man shot dead Mary Emma-line Andrews, 24, married, a wards maid at Gladesville Mental Hospital, in Victoria-road, Gladesville, early to-day, and dramatically committed suicide…

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Fire on Wharf

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 August 1935 · page 1

Soon after the steamer Marama sailed from 5 Darling Harbor for New Zealand yesterday a section of the wharf decking was seen to be…

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Fire at Aldavilla. Kempsey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 August 1935 · page 16

Noticing flames issuing from a detached dining-room and kitchen at the residence of Mr. J. P[?]olemy, of Aldavilla, early yesterday morning. Mr. H. Ward ran to the house and…

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Not Incubator Fire At Parramatta

The Sun · Saturday 3 August 1935 · page 5

The fire at Lanyon's hatcheries at Pennant Hills-road yesterday destroyed a shed and storeroom containing a number of chickens. The…

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