False Alarm of Fire
A malicious false alarm of fire was received at 1.39 o'clock to-day through the fire alarm at the corner of Lane and M'Culloch streets. Mr. F. J. Spring,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1931
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Fire at Mudgee Four Shops Damaged Mudgee
More than £5000 damage was caused by a, fire which damnged four shops in the main street of Mudgee early this morning. Constable Day, who…
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Late this afternoon word was received at the Central Police Station that a bush fire had broken out in the right hand end of Stirling Vale…
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The outbreak of fire in the Stirling Vale property (as briefly reported in the First Edition) about, two miles on the Cockburn side of the cemetery on…
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A special gang of workmen of the New South Wales Railway Department is at present working in the vicinity of Box Tank clearing fire breaks on…
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The outbreak of fire in the Stirling Vale property (as briefly reported in the First Edition) about two miles on the Cockburn side of the Cemetery on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Miner Friday, October 16, 1931. the Bush Fire Season
Summer is the season of bush fires. The western district is as a rule fairly free from these visitations, but the heavy rainfall during the first half…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fire Outbreak Occurred To-day on Wirryilka Station Fire Now Under Control
Believed to have been caused by a spark from the express from Sydney this morning, a grass fire broke out on Wirryilka Station property this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigades Board Visit of Commissioners
The Board of New South Wales Fire Commissioners comprising Mr. T. J. Smith, M.L.C. (president). Mr. T. S. Douglas (representative of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Brigades Board Local Visit Completed
The Board of New South Wales Fire Commissioners comprising Mr. T. J. Smith, M.L.C. (president, Mr. T. S. Douglass (insurance companies…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Mount Gambier Rubber Works Destroyed Mount Gambier
The most spectacular and disastrous fire Mount Gambier has had for some years occurred in Commercial-street late this afternoon, when the…
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A serious outbreak is reported in the Tilpe district where a fire started on Mr. Nowman's property (Naugara), and is now travelling outward on to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in a Motor Car
A motor car owned by Mr. John Bar hour Lewis caught fire throtinh some wires fusing at the comer of Williams and Chloride streets last night about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Rubbisii Fire
At 4.14 o'clock this aftornoon the Cuittral Fire Brigade received a call through the fire alarm at the cornel of Chloride und Williams-street. On…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Ship Laid Up. Fire at Union Office Melbourne, Tuesday Night
The crew of the Ashridge who refused to take the vessel away from Melbourne on Saturday was paid off to-day…
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At the Armidale Quarter Sessions yesterday. William See Lun aid Thomas Michael. Welsh were found guilty of having maliciously set fire to a store…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys Store Man Burnt to Death Auckland (N.Z.), October 21
Henry William Nichols, a storekeeper of Kaihn, near Dargaville, was burned to death when his store was destroy by fire. His body was found…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfire Outbreaks Danger at Mongolata Adelaide
That the greatest precautions are essential to prevent the outbreak of bushtires is emphasised by Messrs. John Barker, of baldina Station, and I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Recent Outback Fires Pastoralists' Thanks to Railwaymen and Police
The Council of the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling has conveyed the appreciation of the association to Mr. H.,S. Coulson, assistant district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Sydney Fire Interior Destroyed of the Tivoli Stores Damage About £30,000 Sydney
An outbreak of fire which was discovered by a taxi driver at 2.15 o'clock this morning practically destroyed the interior of Tivoli Stores, which for some…
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