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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1937

1,947 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 98

Fire in Light Plant. Boggabri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 7

A fire occurred in the Boggabri electric light and power supply building early this morning. Two 40-gallon feed tanks of crude oil attached to the wall of the building…

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Fire Brick Making Newbold Silica Company Advances Rapidly at Newcastle

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 21

FOLLOWING on phenomenal developments in the production of high refractories and assay ware the progressive Newbold Silica Fire-Brick Co., Ltd., is making extensive additions to Its Newcastle factory…

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The Menace of Fire Will Exist So Long as Communities Live in Inflammable Buildings

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 20

OVER every country town broods the menace of fire, especially during the summer months, when the increased danger of an outbreak if often coincident with a shortage of water. The list of country towns which have been swept by fire during the…

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News of The world Cabled By Our Correspondents Late Final Extra 'Planes Fire on Rebel Trenches Fierce Battle Near Spain's Capital. Move For Conscription: Classes Called Up Unifying Loyalists London

The Sun · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 21

APPARENTLY as a first step to general conscription, the Spanish Government has mobilised the five military classes of the years 1932 to 1936. This announcement is made in a message from…

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Brick Works Fire

The St George Call · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 2

The roof of one of the kilns at Speare’s Tempe Brick, Tile and Pipe Works, Ltd., at St. Peters, caught fire yesterday, but firemen with one…

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Fire at Brick Works

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 5

The roof of one of the kilns at Speare's Tempe Brick, Tile, and Pipe Works, Ltd., at St. Peters, caught fire yesterday, but firemen with one hydrant extinguished the flames…

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At a Fire

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 11

ONE hot summer's night, as my brother Jack and I sat reading our favorite books, the sudden shout of "Fire!" from the street nearby…

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Petrol, Smoke, Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 2

Polishing the counter of his confectionery shop in Glenmore Road, Paddington, yesterday, with petrol, Albert Thwaites paused to light a…

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Dashed for Life in Fire Mother And Daughter Great Heat

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 1

SECONDS after a widow and her young daughter jumped out of bed and ran into the street from their blazing home…

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£75,000 Blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 2

ROCKHAMPTON, Sunday.--Damage estimated at £75,000 was caused by a fire which today destroyed Fostar's shoe store. Paling's music store,…

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For Fire Board

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 1

Lidcombe Council decided last week to record its votes for a metropolitan representative on the Board of Fire Commissioners in the following order of…

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Primate Again Under Fire London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 3

THE attempt by the Archbishop of Canterbury, late in December, to call the nation back to religion "misfired…

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Four Shops Burned. Fire Follows Explosion. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 10

After an exp[?] which was [?] miles away, a fire swept through four shops in the main shopping block of East-street, Rockhampton, early this morning, and caused…

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Explosions in Fire Big Damage At Rockhampton Loss of £75,000 BRISBANE

The Sun · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 1

DAMAGE estimated at more than £75,000 was caused by a fire which swept through portion of the business area of…

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Bush Fire Menace to Harbor Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 7

Several homes in Huka Road, Clifton Gardens, were threatened by a bush fire yesterday. Thirty firemen from Circular Quay,…

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Fire in Exhibition Building

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 5

A fire under the floor of the old Exhibition Building in Prince Alfred Park was extinguished by firemen from Headquarters, George Street…

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£75,000 Blaze in Q'land Many Injured by Explosions Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 1

Two large shops were gutted and three others badly damaged in a £75,000 blaze at Rockhampton to-day…

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Fire in Mine Promptly Extinguished. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 11

Fire broke out underground at the Happy Valley colliery, near Merewether, this afternoon. It is believed that the hessian brattice used in connection with the ventilation…

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Fire in Mine Working Rescue Party Out

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The mine rescue party was called out tonight to a fire in a working at the Happy Valley Mine, Merewether…

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ALD. T.D. Mutch Re-elected Ballot For Fire Board

The Sun · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 12

Aid. T. D. Mutch (Double Bay) was to-day re-elected to the Board of Fire Commissioners as representative of city and suburban…

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