Fire Commissioners Visit to Singleton, Motor Fire Engine Installed. Singleton
Members of the Board of Fire Commissioners visited Singleton in connection with the installation of the new Dennis motor fire engine…
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Fires & bushfires, 1929
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Set Two Dogs on Fire
For a diabolical act of cruelty to two dogs, Ernest Lambert, a Royal Marine, stationed at Plymouth, was fined £25 and ordered to pay special costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Follows Robbery. Big Business Destroyed
Following an attempt by thieves to blow open a safe in the ironmongery hardware and furniture establishment of Wolsnor and Co., of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Commissioners' Visit to Cessnock Official Installation of New and Up-to-date Engine. Long Service Medal Presented to Fireman McCALLUM
On Wednesday morning Fire Comimssioners E. E. Collins, J. F. Beswick, and W. B. Clark, visited Cessnock, and officially installed the new engine recently acquired by the local station. They also presented Fireman McCallum with a long service medal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Bill
In the Legislative Assembly last week a long-expected measure, under the name of the Bush Fires Bill, was introduced and read a first time, so…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Fire Engine
A new motor engine for Singleton Fire Brigade arrived on 27th. ult. The engine is the latest model turned out by the Dennis…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Commissioners Visit to Singleton. Motor Fire Engine Installed. Singleton
Members of the Board of Fire Commissioners visited Singleton, in connection with the installation of the new Dennis motor fire engine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Commissioners Visit to Cessnock. Reduced Fire Rate Urgbd Cessnock
A visit was paid to Cessnock to-day by members of the Board of Fire Commissioners, namely, Mr. E. Collins, country municipalities…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coonamble Fire. Thirteen Cars Burnt
The Olympic Motor Garage of H.J.Edwards and J. Cowan, at Goonamble, was destroyed by fire, together with the whole of the contonis…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Manly Blaze. in Residential Block. Occupants Escape in Night Attire. Sydney
A fire broke out at Manly this morning in a block of residentials which included a grocer's shop and a wine saloon…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Way to Build a Fire
The usual way of building a fire in a domestic grate is to begin with a layer of kindling and to pile coal on this foundation. Nothing could…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Incinerated Saloon Car on Fire. London, Sept. 28
Three women, including a mother and her daughter, were incinerated when a saloon car overturned and caught fire near Harrogate. The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal on Fire Outbreak on Port Nicholson. Perim, Sent. 29
About two hundred tons of bunker coal caught alight on the steamer Port Nicholson. The blare, however, is under control…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Cigarette-end Fires
The American National Board of Fire Underwriters holds that eigar[?]ttes are responsible for about one-sixth of the annual property fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Coonamble Eighteen Cabs Burnt
The Olympic Motor Garage of H. J. Edwards and J. Cowan, at Coonamble, was destroyed by fire on Friday together with the whole of the contents…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Control Some Seasonable Reminder on Prevention
Every summer heavy losses are sustained in rural districts as a result of fire. Some of this loss is inevitable, but a large proportion might have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Fire Engine "Broken In." Small Blaze in Harris-street
Cessnock's new find up-to-date fire engine was "broken in" on Sunday night, when the brigade was called out to an incipient outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Kearsley House Totally Destroyed
Last night the Kearsley Fire Brigade was called out to a fire in an unoccupied dwelling in Allandale-street. The premises, which were of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire Timber Yards Destroyed. Melbourne
Early last evening a disastrous fire occurred at the timber yards of [?] Davis and Co., Malvern-road, Toorak. Fanned by a southerly wind, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Kearsley Four-roomed Cottage Destroyed. Cessnock
A four-roomed weatherboard dwelling in Allandale-street, Kearsley, was destroyed by fire last night. The property is owned by…
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