Fire Brigade Expenditure
L[?]s showing the estimated expenditure in the various fire districts for 1927 were before Dorrigo Shire Council on Wednesday. The estimate…
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Fires & bushfires, 1926
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Fire at Gleniffer
On Friday night last, at about 31.30, the dwelling house of Daniel James Walsh, of Gleniffer, was destroyed by fire, together with the contents. The building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dorrigo Fire Brigade Talk About Water Supply Inspector Coghlan's Suggestion
A meeting of ratepayers, convened by Mr. J. H. Davis, was held in the Literary Institute on Saturday evening. In addition to Inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Close Call House Saved From Fire. Deer Vale
The house owned by Mr. G. Stein and occupied by Mr. S. Casey and family, came close to being laid low by fire, the lied being well alight when it was noticed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Air Patrols Advocated Riverina a Blackened Waste. Sydney
Suggestions that there should be air patrols to detect bush fires were made to-day by Captain E. J. Larkin, of the Larkin Aircraft Co., on arrival in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cold at Armipale Overcoats and Fires in Vogue. Armidale
Overcoats and fires have been reverted to at Armidale as a result of a most unseasonable cold snap. Regular winter weather is experienced and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Burns Another Bush Fire Victim. Dubbo
Clifford Charles, 29, who was seriously burned at Wyanga while fighting a bush fire last Sunday, has died in hospital. Charles received his injuries while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tragic Fire at Picture Show Drum Collagher Triad Ends. London
The trial of the three men who were charged in connection with the tragic fire at a picture show at Drum Collagher, Ireland, when many persons were burnt…
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At the Bellingen District Court, before His Honor Judge Mocatta and a jury, the case of Mackay v. Elias, a claim for £440 damages, arising out of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Constable's Death Burnt While Fighting Bush Fire. Adelaide
Foot Constable Tregowith, who was badly burned in the Waterfall Gully bush fire last week, died at Adelaide Hospital yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Engine Wrecked While Racing to Fire. Sydney
While racing to a fire at Punchbowl to-day, a Bankstown fire engine crashed through a culvert, and, after dashing through a fence, knocked a tree down…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stock of Fire Victims Neighbors Provide Free Agistment. Sydney
The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Dunn, desires to express his appreciation of the action of those public-spirited men in various districts which have been visited…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire
Early on Sunday morning last a cottage, which was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. H. Menzies and family, at Dorrigo, was destroyed by fire. Hearing a strange…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maclean Council Fire Brigade Matters
The fortnightly meeting of the Maclean Municipal Council was held on Monday when there were present Aldermen L.A.Macdonald (in the chair),R.J…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Ball Causes Damage and Panic Melbourne
A fire ball swept over Mandurang South, near Bendigo yesterday causing great devastation in its wake. Many residents became panic-stricken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fell Into Fire Child Badly Burnt. Maclean
Whilst sitting in front of an open fire which had been made for the purpose of heating some, irons, the three year oid son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hart, of South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kyogle Fire Fourteen Shops Burnt Exciting Scenes Desperate Fire Fighting
A disastrous fire occurred at Kyogle shortly after midnight on Christmas Eve. Fourteen business houses in main street were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Casino Good Work by Brigade Bedding Factory Saved
The value of an efficient fire fighting brigade to Casino was demonstrated early on Thursday morning when a fire, which started in a bedding factory at the rear…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thieves Start Fire After Attempt to Blow Safe. Melbourne
Thieves made an unsuccessful attempt to blow, the safe of Tye and Co., furniture warehousemen, of Prahran. Mattresses and other material which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mysterious Fire Incendiarism Suspected. Melbourne
Incendiarism is suspected as the result of a series, of mysterious fires at South Richmond during the last fortnight. The latest took place yesterday morning…
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