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Fires & bushfires, 1935

2,020 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 101

A.J.C. Will Have To Be Much More Careful In Future Register a Fire Brand! Trotting Club Takes No Risks and Has No "Ring-Ins" Photographs Are Imperative

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 1

ONCE again "Sportsman" stresses the necessity for the Australian Jockey Club to readjust its method of registration of racehorses. The disquali-…

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10,000 Scouts in Sydney Rally Baden-powell to Declare Camp-fire Open

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1935 · page 3

More than 10,000 Boy Scouts from all parts of the State will be present at the big rally and camp-fire, organised by the N.S.W. Boy Scouts'…

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Oil Blaze

The Sun · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 9

Leaking oil started a fire which damaged a blacksmith's shop at the Clyde Engineering works, Factory-street. Clyde, to-day. Brigades from…

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Disastrous Fire. On Barrier Reef Island. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 10

A fire which started a week ago on Hook Island, Barrier Reef, is still blazing, and has already destroyed more than 2500 acres of vegetation. The Island is uninhabited, but is…

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Country News. Farmer's Loss by Fire. Ardlethan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 10

Damage estimated at £200 was done when two stacks, containing about 70 tons of hay, a chaffcutter, a chaff shed, and a small quantity of chaff, the property of Mr. R. Davis, of…

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Fire in Factory. Charge of Incendiarism. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 10

Three bricks were thrown through the plateglass windows of the furniture warehouse of Messrs. A. and J. Watt, in Princes-street, Dunedin. Later fires broke out in several…

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Saved Children From Fire Father Braved Flames Entered Home Just In Time at Botany

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 5

FIGHTING his way into a blazing weatherboard cottage in Clevedon Street, Botany, late on Saturday night, a man saved the…

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Fire Near Circus

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 7

Two men were burnt last night during a performance of a c[?]rous at Collaroy, when a lorry containing the lighting plant caught fire…

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Fire at Engineering Works

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 10

A defective valve, which allowed crude oil to drip from a tank, probably caused a fire which broke out in the blacksmith shop of the Clyde Engineering Works at Clyde…

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Fire in Infirmary. London, J.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 9

There were exciting scenes when a fire broke out in an infirmary in Bow-road last night. Two hundred aged and bedridden men and women, some of them blind, were hurriedly…

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Premises Dfstroyed by Fire. Brewarrina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 10

The Biree Hotel, about 23 miles from Brewarrina on the main Coller[?]nn-road was destroyed by fire about midnight on Saturday. The premises were ocrupied by Mr. and Mrs…

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Badly Burned About Body Fire in Circus

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

Two men were sprayed with burning petrol at Dee Why last night, and were badly burned about the body, legs and arms, and a valuable…

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Fire at Circus. Petrol Fumes Ignited. Two Men Burnt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 9

Two men suffered burns lost night when petrol exploded during a circus performance held by Fox Brothers on a vacant allotment off Pittwater-road, Collaroy,…

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Mother's Love in a Fire Carried Family in Teeth Whimpering Kelpie Among Crowd CASINO

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

FOR doing much less, men and Women receive medals and columns of newspaper acclamation, but she does not know she has…

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Nurses' Heroism in Hospital Fire Carried Out 250 PATIENTS Ceiling Collapsed In Ward Averted Panic London

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

WHILE tongues of flame were licking the walls, 60 nurses at the City of London Institution for the Aged calmly, carried 250…

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Men in Sheet of Flame Big Drum of Film on Fire Violent Explosion In Melbourne Factory Badly Hurt Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

HENRY HOWE, 21, Fred Jones, 60, and Leslie Baker, 41, were seriously burned to-day when a drum of film burst into flames,…

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Fire on Raranga

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 4

A fire broke out in the general cargo of the steamer Raranga whilst discharging at Avonmouth, but it was quickly got under control…

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Fire Victim Dies

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Henry Howe, 21, of Brighton, who was burned yesterday in a film fire at the leather works of Howe and Co. Pty.,…

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Fire at Sea Engineer's Death LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 1

A message received to-day by the Glasgow owners of the British tanker Valverda, which is on fire in the Atlantic Ocean, stated that the fire…

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Tanker Fire Steamer Standing By: Engine-room Gone New York

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 10

The French ship Petit Terre is standing by the British oil-tanker Valverda (8807 tons), which has been on fire in the Atlantic 1000 miles…

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