Fire Fighters Award Councils to Find £60,000 Extra. Sydney
Alderman Baker, representative for Eastern Suburbs on the Board of Fire Commissioners, informed the Randwick Council there would be an increase in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1927
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Fire in Tower. Melbourne
Great difficulty was experienced last night in extinguishing a fire in the lower of the Working Men's College in Latrobe street…
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Three shops find the contents were destroyed by fire last night. The damage is estimated at between £5000 and £10,000. There was no regular fire brigade…
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Messrs. Henderson and Pollard's joinery mills at Auckland were destroyed by fire to-day. The damage is estimated at £100,000 and 100 men have been thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Steamer Charge Against Two Seamen Newspapers and Bedding Ablaze. Brisbane
William Ronald Ray and Robert Foy, seamen, on remand, appeared at the Police Court to-day charged that on December 3 they set fire to a heap of newspapers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires 70 Writs Against Railways. Sydney
Seventy writs against the Railway Commissioners for New South Wales were issued out of the Supreme Court yesterday. Damages were claimed in each…
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A fire which partly destroyed the music shop of Joseph Phillips, of Oxford street, Darlinghurst, did damage estimated at £2000…
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Further evidence was heard in the police court in the case against two sea men, William Ray and Robert Foy, charged with having set fire to a heap…
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A minor was fined £2 with costs at Albury Police Court for igniting inflammable material within ten yards of grass, which burned 250 acres of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Griffith. Griffith
A fire in the main street of Griffith yesterday destroyed one building and seriously damaged several others. It was prevented from sweeping through the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Menace 8000 Tons Of Petrol Floating Down River Oil Tanker Wrecked in Mersey London
THERE WAS A SENSATION AT LIVERPOOL, WHEN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL COMPANY TANKER, SEMINOLE, GROUNDED…
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A big scrub fire raged in the Sandringham district and was suppressed by the fire brigades f[?] several stations…
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Fourteen persons, 12 of them children, are known to be dead as a result of a fire which destroyed a hospice at Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Many Outbreaks in Victoria Railway Engines Blamed. Melbourne
Sparks from railway engines are believed to be responsible for many outbreaks of grass and bush fires in various parts of Victoria yesterday…
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At 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, a four-roomed house at Burleigh Heads, owned by C. Boetteher, Annerley, Brisbane, was completely destroyed, together…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Children Trapped Terrible Fire in Canada 37 Bodies Found, 17 Missing. Quebec
Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the St. Charles Hospice fire. All were children, except one…
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The joinery works of Barker and Murdoch, at Auburn, were gutted by fire last night, and valuable machinery was destroyed…
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At the height of a storm, premises in Palmer street, South Townsville, owned and occupied by the Kangaroo Tea Co., were destroyed by fire. An explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£45,000 Damage Another Boarding School Fire. New York
Another disastrous fire destroyed the St. Louis Academy Boarding School for boys. Two hundred of the inmates were rescued. The damage was estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nyngan Fire £300 Insurance Policy Company's Appeal Upheld Conditions Not Complied With. Sydney
The Full Court heard an appeal by the defendants in the action tried before Mr. Justice Campbell and a jury in which Mary Hannah Beck sued the Queensland…
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