Port Kembla Notes Fire
About 11.40 p.m. on Saturday, when Mrs. Caroline Nott returned from the pictures to her home at 26 Darcy-rd., Port Kembla, she went to enter the…
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Wollongong Fire Brigade Celebrates Jubilee MR. A. J. Robb Honoured
The figures, 1889-1939 headed the menu of the Golden Jubilee dinner of the Wollongong Fire Brigade, held at the fire station on Saturday night…
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The village fire chief was interviewing a number of recruits in connection with the local air raid precautions movement…
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A six-roomed weatherboard cottage in Beach road, Bellambi, was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night…
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Whilst Prank H. Wardel was walking along Beach-road, Bellambi, about 10.15 p.m. on Saturday night, he noticed the front portion of the…
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The fire brigade was summoned to a grass fire in the school grounds on Wednesday afternoon. Some rubbish which had been burnt was blown…
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The Town Clerk, Mr. R. B. Bell, has received a leaflet from the Bush Fires Advisory Committee, regarding the prevention and control of bush…
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Believed to have spread from the copper where water was boiling for washing, a fire totally destroyed a washhouse connected to the premisese building…
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Port Kembla Fire Brigade were called to No. 4 Jetty last week, when fire broke out in the hold of an overseas vessel discharging sulphur for the…
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