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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
339 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 13 of 17
Sydney, October 10.—The three-day strike by more than two hundred: Fire Brigade officers in New South Wales ended tonight when a mass, meeting accepted the terms of settlement. The Fire Brigade Officers' Association has issued an instruction…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bogota (Colubia). October 12.—A fire last night destroyed Tumaco. Columbia second met important western port. rendering 5000 homeless and causing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kalgoorile. October 13.—A lire which broke out in the Ora Banda Amalgamated mine at Grants patch damaged the milling section of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →KALGOORLIE.—A fire which broke out in the engineroom of the Ora Banda Amalgamated mine at Grants Patch damaged the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY.—At 12.55 a.m. today Fire Brigade headquarters reported that full control had been gained over the disastrous fire which in about three hours from 10 o'clock last night swept through a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne. October 14. —Shipping and cargo sheds were threatened yesterday by a lire which started on 27 South Wharf from the Mania, on which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney. October 14.—A large hardware factory was suited by fire in Marrickville tonight. No reliable estimate of the damage has been made. but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by fire last, night at the radio factory of Stromberg Carlson (A/sia) Pty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, October 15.—The seven consuls who investigated the situation in Indonesia have reported to the U.N. Security Council that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE. — At 2.20 a.m. today an Unley woman gave an alarm for a fire next door—by 9.30…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, October 15.—The destruction by the of the factory of R. B. Davies pty. Ltd. at Mar[?]ville last night will set housing work in Australia back for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lake Success. October 15. — Seven consuls who investigated the situation in Indonesia, reported to the Security Council yesterday that Dutch forces…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Adelaide. October 15.—A fire which destroyed the hall of the Methodist Mission at Renmark saved the district from being terrorised by an escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A representative gathering of graziers was held the the Court House last week with a view of reforming the Ivanhoe Bush Fire Brigade which has not operated as a body since the summer of 1913/44. The meeting decided that in view of the prolific…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill had a spate of fires during the week-end. Fires occurred in two houses and a shop and there were two cases of electric light poles catching fire following short-circuits of the electric light wires. In all cases with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE contents and back portion of the Therese Frock Shop were severely damaged by fire and water yesterday afternoon. Fire engines from Central and South Brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London, October 19—Damage estimated at £1,000,000 was causal when a London warehouse containing whisky, sugar and nuts was gutted by fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, October 19.—An armed and masked man walked into a Newtown house last night and robbed the occupants of thirty pounds. Seven people in the house were listening to a broadcast of the dog races when a man entered the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, October 20.—Brigades from six cities fought the £1,000,000 fire which yesterday engulfed warehouses and docks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PORT PIRIE—St. Mark's Catholic Church, one of the finest churches in Port Pirie, and the adjacent St…
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