Fire in Council Chambers Clerk’s Denial Train Journey to Yass Broken
“I admit embezzling money and falsifying the council book, but I do not know anything about the fire.”…
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Fires & bushfires, 1937
196 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 10
£45,000 Damage in Big Fire at Rabaul
RABAUL, Friday: When a fire swept the stores of Burns, Philip and Company, Limited, on Wednesday night, the population of Rabaul was almost panic-stricken, Hundreds of natives hurriedly left the town…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Holy Man Who Can't Be Hurt Walks Through Fire And, Buried Alive Amritsar
A man who can lift a 20lb. weight on the end of a wire passed through his arm without his arm bleeding, who can walk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Outbreaks at Junee
Junee has been particularly unfortunate in the matter of outbreaks of fire during 1937, which is probably the heaviest year on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bash Fire Control
Every summer heavy losses are sustained in rural districts as a result of fire. Some of tills loss is inevitable but a large proportion might…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on Liner 105 Miles Out Of Port
SYDNEY, Monday: A fire broke out last night on the interstate liner, the Orungal, 105 miles from Sydney, while on a voyage from Cairns to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Water and Fire
NEW YORK: While water is commonly used for fighting fires, strangely, it causes indirectly a large share of farm fires, Dr. David J. Price, fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cross of Fire Aided by Government Money
PARIS. Tuesday: Giving evidence in a court case at Lyons, M. Tardieu, caused a sensation when he declared that while he was Premier in 1932,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Troops Will Fire if Attacked by Jap. Planes Apology From Japan Accepted By Great Britain
LONDON, Wednesday: The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, stated in the House of Commons that Britain had accepted Japan's apology for the attack on the British post at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Petrol Fires Invention to Fight Flames Secret Liquid
Risk of death by fire in aeroplanes, trains, ships, and motor cars can be eliminated for ever if a secret liquid, discovered by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclist on Fire Bumper In His Pocket
Proceeding from Golspie to Crookwell on Thursday last, writes a correspondent, and having reached a point only a few…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destroyed by Fire Peelwood Public School Built Sixty Years Ago
The Peelwood Public School, built during the district's hectic mining days of 1877 to accommodate upwards of 100 children, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →School Destroyed by Fire
The Peelwood Public School was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning last. The weather-shed which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cooma Street Blaze Extensive Damage To Grocer’s Shop 83 Garage Saved
A fire which may have resulted in much more serious consequences and loss, had it not been for the prompt work of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Hits Light Pole Power Wires Start Fire
SYDNEY, Monday: A sedan car which crashed Into an electric light pole on the Terrigal Road, near the Erina Bridge, on Saturday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damaging Fire at Yass
The back rooms of premises occupied by a grocor and radio dealer were destroyed, together with twelve radio sets, during a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Outbreak of Fire in Hut
A fire, the cause of which is unknown, broke out in a hut at the rear of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'s premises…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peelwood Fire Teacher's Heavy Loss
In our last issue was given a brief account of the fire which totally destroyed the old Peelwood school and weather-shed in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GRASSHOPPERS Successful Method Of Destroying Fire Fighting Plant
On Thursday last, on a property some seven miles from Burrlowa, a valuable demonstration of what is probably a new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Station for Young
When Mr. Ross, Fire Brigade Architect, visited Young last month he had with him a plan for the new fire station, and it is expected that…
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