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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1935

2,020 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 101

Bushfires. Victorian Outbreak. Beaters Mobilised. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 11

Bushfires are burning fiercely over 12 square miles in the thickly timbered country between Strathbogie and Bonnie Doon. The flames are within a mile and a half…

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Vic. Bushfires Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 1

THE flames of the bush fires still threaten the settlement of Dry Creek, in the Strathbogle Ranges, although volunteers, aided by a change…

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Fire in Raranga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 22

While discharging cargo at Avonmouth. It is reported, a fire broke out in the Shaw, Savill, and Albion freighter Raranga. The fire was brought under control, and it is now estimated that about…

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Fire at Hospital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 18

A fire broke out in a lounge-room in the student's quarters at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital last night. Fire brigades from Newtown, headquarters, George-street West, and…

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By the Camp-fire

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 19

I THOUGHT of you as I gazed where the logs were blazing, Of you, and a wild romance at a city revel…

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Girl Guides. Camp Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 11

Many girl guides and brownies from the metropolitan area and certain country centres will assemble at a camp fire in Centennial Park on Wednesday, January 30, commencing…

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The Long Trails. Where the Camp-fires Burn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 21

Every night a thousand camp-fires burn by the far acks of the [?]ush dotting the endless miles of the long trails; and, no matter how remote they are, how lonely they look,…

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Fire on Raranga. Cheese Damaged

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 4

The Sydney Marine Underwriters received a cable yesterday stating that the damage caused through an outbreak of fire in the general cargo of…

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Outbreak of Fire in Hospital Valuable X-Ray Plant Endangered

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 1

IF firemen had not been promptly on the scene, it is probable that thousands of pounds' worth of damage would have been done to…

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Doctors, Warders Fight Hospital Fire Feared for X-ray Theatre In Students' Living Quarters

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 1

DOCTORS, wardsmen, and attendants fought a fire which broke out early last night in the living room of the students'…

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Shot Girl, Set Fire To Bed Frenzy of Love Laborer's Suicide on Kempsey Farm

The Sun · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 5

DISAPPOINTED in his love for Joyce Eggins, 16-year-old niece of the man for whom he had recently worked as a general farm laborer, David Geddes Taylor, 28, stole into the girl's room at Austral…

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Liner Sinks in Collision Hoodoo Pursues the Coy. Echo Of Morro Castle Fire Disaster All Saved New York

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 1

A FEW miles from where the Morro Castle holocaust occurred, the passenger steamer Mohawk, which also belonged to…

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Bushfire at Henty. Henty

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 18

The first bush fire of the season broke out to-day in Twarz's slaughterhouse paddock, about a mile from the town. The fire was checked after it had burnt about 15 or 20…

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Fizzed Out Spa Water Used to Fight Fire

The Sun · Sunday 27 January 1935 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Four hundred gallons of spa water, fizzing from steel cylinders, was used at Hepburn Springs this afternoon to…

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Camp-fire Songs Chief Scout's Hour with Boys

The Sun · Sunday 27 January 1935 · page 2

The Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, spent an hour at last night's camp-fire of 2000 wood badge-holders at the Baden-Powell Training Camp…

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Fire Scares Old Men Film Flares Up at Infirmary Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 27 January 1935 · page 31

Fire cut short the weekly picture night at the Victorian Benevolent Home for the Aged and Infirm, Park Street, West Brunswick, last night,…

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Escape Through Blaze Searing Roof Three People

The Sun · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 7

BELEAGUERED above a blazing shop in Redfem at 3.45 a.m. to-day, a family of three avoided certain…

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City Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 8

A fire broke out in a three-story building occupied by Inglis, Ltd., in Hutchinson-street, Darlinghurst, on Saturday night. City brigades, under the direction of Chief Officer…

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Quenched Fire with Spa Water

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A fire that destroyed a store-room at the factory of Hepburn Spa, Ltd., at Hepburn Springs, yesterday afternoon…

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Fire on Raranga. Cheese Damaged

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 4

The Sydney Marine Underwriters received a cable yesterday stating that the damage caused through an outbreak of fire in the general cargo of…

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