Fire on Electric Light Pole
When electric light wires on a pole in Pell Street off Bismuth Street burst into flames early this morning the Central Fire Brigade was called…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
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203 Killed in Fire Blaze In Dance Hall New York, April 24
TWO hundred and three young negroes and negresres were killed at Natchez (Mississippi) last night, when a dance hall caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →High Beam Gas Fires a Beautiful Range in Sunsheen Finish
A Marvellous Fire which adds tone to "your Sitting-Room! "FANTASIE" 6 Radiant Fires, fixed ready for use, £9/2/6. £1…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£5000 Damage in Dye Works Fire
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Damage estimated at £5000 was caused by a fire which gutted, the whole of one section of the Bradford Dye Works…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Mayor's Fund Under Fire Country Towns Criticised ORANGE
A DDRESSING a meeting of the Orange War and Patriotic Committee last night, Mr. W. H. Bentley declared: "The Lord Mayor's Fund of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Extensive Fire Damage At Office Of Solicitor
EXTENSlVE damage was done by fire to the office of John R. Edwards Son and Brown yesterday afternoon. Flames quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Timely Discovery Of Grass Fire Near Renton's Creek
Although recent rains have brought on fresh grasses there is still an extremely, grave danger of grass fires in the district it was reported…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Early this morning boarders in a Bourke Street, coffee palace left their beds and dashed to safety as flames roared…
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Mr Austen B[?] speaking of the five which broke out on his [?]mises last week stited.—"An examinations of our premises this morning reveals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Fire Oil Supplies; Scuttle Old Liner To Block Harbor Entrance (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, May 17
IT is revealed that the landing of a battalion of British troops in Holland, also marines and bluejackets, forzned part of extensive British operations on the Belgian and Dutch coast, following the German invasion…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Destroys Home Man's HeavyLoss At Menindee
MISTAKING a bottle of petrol for a bottle of kerosene proved costly to "Buck"McInnes.who resides about two and a half-miles down the River…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Weygand Defies Enemy Fire Visits Troops in France (Special to "The Miner") PARIS, May 27
FLYING through a hail of anti-aircraft fire and dodging German planes, General Weygand has made his second visit to the armies in northern France and Belgium since he was appointed Commander-in-Chief…
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LONDON, May 31—A "Daily Telegraph" war correspondent says that a. French Array division which he at 'present is visiting has passed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Germans FireOn British Nurses In Hospital Ship Channel Attack London, June 3
APATHETIC procession of stretcher-bearers came down the gangway from a destroyer which berthed at a port,this morning, carrying bandaged nurses and the body of a cabin boy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Narvik Destroyed by Fire
LONDON, June 4— It is officially announced that the British forces in the Bodo area of Norway, about 140 miles south-west of Narvik, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Officer Rodney Transferred
District Fire Officer R. Rodney, who has been in charge of the Broken Hill Fire District for the past two years, will shortly be transferred to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Renovations at Fire Station
Inspections of the Central Fire Station are being carried out by the Fire Department's architect (Mr. Fred Ross) with a view to renovations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Govt. and Fifth Columnists Again Under Fire Senator and Mr. Beasley MELBOURNE
CENATOR Major General Brand, speaking at the "Win the-War" rally last night, said that there were, too many near-Fifth, Columnists in Australia. Some people were using their influence to make the recruiting campaign a failure…
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District Fire Officer R. Condon, who is to succeed District Officer B. Rodney as officer in charge of the local fire district, is the youngest district…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farewell To Fire Officer Rodney
Broken Hill firemen shosved their appreciation of the administration of District. Officer B. Rodney during his two years ns officer in charge of the…
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