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Fires & bushfires, 1937

1,947 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 98

Ten Perish in Petrol Fire Believed Maliciously Caused Constantinople, Tues

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 August 1937 · page 7

TEN persons were incinerated and many others are in hospital suffering from frightful burns as a result of a fire in a petrol depot at…

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Thought Ship Was on Fire Brigades Rushed To Give Assistance Near Cronulla

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 August 1937 · page 1

STREAKS of lightning flashing across its bulwarks during a south-westerly squall, gave Cronulla residents the…

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Masonic Hall Fire

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 5

Brigadesmen quickly extinguished a blaze which broke out in the old two-storey Masonic. Hall in Smith Street. Ashfield late last night One…

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Kent-st. Fire

The Sun · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 21

City firemen were called late this afternoon to an outbreak on an upper floor at the premises of Nettleton, Son and Co., Ltd., Kent-street. They…

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Car and Papers Destroyed Morning Blaze On Mountains KATOOMBA

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 5

A SERVICE car plying between Sydney and Orange, and containing 9000 copies of the three metropolitan morning newspapers. was…

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Fire at Emu Hotel

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 4

On Saturday, 31st ult., at about 6.40 p.m., Mr Graham, an employee of Emu Prison Farm, noticed flames leaping from the roof of the western corner…

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Stop Press Fire at Party

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 1

In the midst of a "kitchen tea" party at Summer Hill Masonic Hall last night, fire broke out, but panic was averted by calm action of M.C. and…

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Around the Camp Fire Circle

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 15

Dear Members.—Despite the fact that the majority of us think the rabbit should be entirely done away with, I am afraid if would be a very di[?]cult and opposed scheme…

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Fire Risk in Theatres Patrons Are Well Protected

The Sun · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 20

The sun's rays, focussed on a celluloid comb in a city jeweller's window, had broken the glass, ignited the comb, and caused a fire, the…

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Ugly Man Competition Work and SUPPORT Merrylands Chamber of Commerce New Fire Station. Official Opening at Merrylands

The Broadcaster · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 2

This ceremony took place on Thursday night of last week, before a large and visiting citizens. Ald. F. G. T. Jones…

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No title More than 900 Entries of High Quality Stud Animals Paraded Before Judges Fire Destroys Forty-three Rams

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 8

WITH more than 900 entries the 59th annual show of the Australian Sheepbreeders' Association in Melbourne this week established a new record. Standard of the entries was high, and many…

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Family at Ball; Home Alight Blaze at Marrickville

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 5

WHILE Mrs. Annie Barry, of Beach Road, Marrickville was attending a children's ball with her family at the Marrickville Town Hall…

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Stock Damaged in City Fire

The Sun · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 12

A quantity of stock was damaged by fire and water to-day when a fire broke out at the premises of George G. Clarke, importers,…

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Stud testis Perish in Melbourne Fire

The Land · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 6

FIRE broke out in the sheep and wool stores of Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd., Melbourne, on Saturday night, and…

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Fire Maliciously Caused. Forbes Coroner's Finding. FORBES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 16

The coroner (Mr. Arthur Sam) found that a fire on July 23 in a house on the Orange Road, owned by Herbert Clarence Ellis, was maliciously caused by some person or persons…

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£14,000 Damage by Fire Shopping Centre Is Gutted BRISBANE

The Sun · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 12

Nine buildings in the main shopping centre of Miles, about 30 miles from Roma, were gutted early to-day by one of the biggest fires in…

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Two People Burned in Chullora Fire Mother and Son Both Go to Hospital Woman Leaps For Life With Clothing In Flames Rescue of Animals

The Sun · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 12

TPRAPPED in her blazing home in Liverpool-road, Chullora, last night, while recovering a handbag, Mrs. Violet Verrell, 45, leaped through a window with her clothes in flames…

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Small Fire in City

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 5

Employees of G. G. Clarke, importers, of Napoleon Street, City, yesterday extinguished a fire which broke out in some kapok and fibre at the…

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Heavy Loss in Fire Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 1

Damage estimated at £14,000 was caused by a fire which broke out at a Miles, about 30 miles from Roma, early to-day. Only a small part of…

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Plane Catches Fire in Air; Six Incinerated Bucharest

The Sun · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 1

Two passengers and a crew of four were burned to death when a Soviet airliner crashed in flames near Bistritza…

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