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Fires & bushfires, 1936

2,399 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 120

Australians Saw Churches Set On Fire LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 2 August 1936 · page 17

When the civil war broke out, the Australian author, Vance Palmer, and his wife had been slaying for two and a half months…

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Put Fire Out with Buckets Timely Arrival of Police Patrol

The Sun · Sunday 2 August 1936 · page 3

Patrolling Hume Highway, Liverpool, in a police car early yesterday, Constables Little and Hoare saw flames coming from a shed at the…

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Rice Mill Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 August 1936 · page 5

NARRANDERA, Sunday.--Walter Smith, part proprietor of the Yenda rice mill, was acquitted at the Quarter Sessions yesterday on a charge of…

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Fire Discovered by Police

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 August 1936 · page 8

Apparently the result of a short-circuit a tram caught alight in George Street, Broadway, on Saturday night. Little damage was done…

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Fire in Wool Shed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 August 1936 · page 5

Fire brigades were called early on Sunday morning to a fire in a shed used as a woolscour by Arthur Davis at Fairfield A quantity of wool and bagging was damaged…

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Fire Destroys Cottage Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 August 1936 · page 6

An unoccupied weatherboard cottage in Bull Street, Mayfield, was completely destroyed by fire last night. The cottage, which was isolated from any other…

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Civilians Under Cross-fire Hendaye (France)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 August 1936 · page 3

CIVILIANS in the little town of Oyarzun, scene of a sharp battle last week, found themselves yesterday under fire…

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Fire in Rice Mill. Accused Not Guilty. Woman's Story Not Believed. Narrandera

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 August 1936 · page 6

At the Quarter Sessions, Walter Smith, part-proprietor of the Yenda rice mill, was charged with setting fire to the mill with intent to defraud…

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Fire Brigades Defeated Hawkesbury College

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 August 1936 · page 8

Fire Brigades' Rugby Union team defeated the Hawkesbury Agricultural College at Kensington Oval yesterday afternoon. Scores: Pire Brigades 17 (Melrose,…

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Fire Alarm in City Store

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 August 1936 · page 11

With reference to the outbreak of fire which ocourred in the fuiniture store of Bebarfalds Ltd., city on Friday evening it is explained that the cause was due to a quantity of…

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Non-attendance of Brigade at Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 August 1936 · page 7

By refusing a call to a fire at Hazelbrook, which is outside the Katoomba district area, on Friday, when three cottages were destroyed,…

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Burnt-out Soldiers

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 August 1936 · page 4

Sir,--S.H.C. is only one of thousands to whom the cry for patriotism falls on deaf ears. When our men were needed for. service in the…

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Ten/test's Behaviour in a Fire

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 5 August 1936 · page 16

Messrs. Crockett and Co. Ltd., the sole agents for Ten/Test, have received a letter, the contents of which should be of interest to all architects and builders:…

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Her Letter Girl At Post-Box Fire

The Sun · Wednesday 5 August 1936 · page 19

Smoke issuing from a pillar-box at the corner of George and Liverpool streets to-day brought a fire engine and a postal official in a hurry…

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By Fire Man Enveloped in Explosion Terrible Burns

The Sun · Wednesday 5 August 1936 · page 13

TERRIBLE burns were inflicted on James Hall, 24, an engineer, when a gas cylinder exploded this…

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Under Fire. Cities of Spain Where Civil War Rages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 August 1936 · page 14

Saragossa, on which the interest in the civil war in Spain appears to be focussing, is a city of war. It is a name that brings to mind the fighting in the Peninsular War…

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Women Who Found Adventure. More Than 1000 Miles on Foot. Women's Travels in Canada. Bush Fires and Ice. (Edited by Marjorie Hessell Tiltman.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 22

MISS EVA HASELL has travelled thousands of miles in Canada helping those who need help both from the…

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Fire!

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 5

A quantity of wool and bagging was burnt when a fire broke out at the Fairfield Wool Wash early on Sunday morning…

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Letter-box Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 4

Smoke issuing from a postage pillar-box at the corner pf George and Liverpool streets yesterday morning attracted the attention of bystanders, and a fire brigade was summoned…

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Fire at Factory

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 12

Waterloo and Alexandria brigades extinguished a fire which broke out in a quantity of flock at the factory of Felt and Textiles, Aust., Ltd.,…

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