Reidtown and District Fire Victims' Benefit
As a result of a fire some weeks, ago which destroyed clothing and tents, the Dixon family, of Towradgi Road…
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Fire! Tell H.R.H. It's Not Very Long Since Royalty Figured Amongst Volunteer Fire-Fighters
The special messenger, face sweating in the sultry summer heat, leapt from the hansom cab and ran into Marlborough House. He was taken direct to the Prince of Wales. A few minutes later, Prince…
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An unoccupied house, the property of the New South Wales Housing Commission, situated in Wallace Road, Fernhill, was…
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A spectacular fire gutted a suite of offices in the Central Chambers, Wollongong, last night and caused smoke and water damage estimated at over £2000. Two firemen, overcome with smoke while] fig citing the blaze, were carried from the building…
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Considerable damage is believed to have been caused to occupants of Central Arcade, Wollongong, as a result of a…
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Damage caused by Wednesday night's fire in the Central Chambers, Wollongong, may exceed £4000. This estimate was given…
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Popularly supposed to be a country where it never rains, the Far West of New South Wales, and Queensland have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fernhill Fire Inquiry
An inquiry into a fire in a partly completed Housing Commission home at Wallace Rd., Fernhill was concluded last…
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HONGKONG, Thursday (AAP Reuter). —Batteries on three Chinese Communist islands near Hongkong today fired on the…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Monday A.A P.).—Evacuation of four towns in the Pine Valley (California) Settlement was ordered…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Fire gutted two factories, within 12 hours today. A blaze which caused £100,000…
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VIENNA, Monday (A.A.P.).— Sabotage is believed to have caused a huge fire, which wrecked Czechoslovakia's…
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At the meeting of Kiama Council last week, several of the Aldermen passed on some of the complaints made to them about the new gas…
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A Crown Street restaurant proprietor acted promptly last night to save two children when a fire broke out in the room in which they were preparing to go to bed…
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When kerosene vapour was exposed to a flame at a dwelling above a Wollongong cafe on Monday night, it exploded…
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It is believed that a spark from a locomotive started, a grass fire near the Port Kembla signal station…
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Prompt action on the part of two nightwafchmen saved what may have developed into a disastrous fire at the Commercial Hotel, Crown Street, in the early hours of this morning…
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A fire in a bedroom at the Commercial Hotel shortly after midnight one Friday, caused considerable damage to the…
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"I consider it a most careless act," said Magstrate Fleeman, at the Nowra Police Court on Tuesday; when…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A fire which swept through the Government Railway Stores at Lily-field today caused damage estimated at nearly £1 million…
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