Forbes White Way To Be Erected Soon Blaze of Brilliant Lights a Progressive Move
In the very near future, Forbes will be a blaze of bright lights. The main shopping streets are to be illuminated from end to end…
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Fires & bushfires, 1928
253 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 6 of 13
Verdict for £1075 Junee Fire TENNIS
Joseph Porter, motor car painter and repairer, of Junee[?] was last week awarded £1075, the full amount claimed by him under insurance policies in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Huge Total Of Cigarette Butts Source of Bush Fires
Though it Is early In the year to warn Forbes bush habitues against causing bushfires, the following facts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FIRE Cottage Razed to Ground Early Morning Blaze House Unoccupied
A fire broke out in an untenanted weatherboard cottage in Farrand Street, at 4 o'clock this morning, and totally destroyed the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fell Out of Hoses Water Pressure Weak At Recent Fire
"The water pressure through the hoses was so weak at Heinke's bacon factory fire, that the stream of water would not hit the…
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Mr. Harry Parsons' residence, outhouses and dairy, at Derriwong, were totally destroyed by fire last Saturday, while he was away from home. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Still Hanging Fire Hospital Board's Contribution Scheme Project is Deferred Public Interest Aroused
The fate of the Forbes Hospital contribution scheme, which it was originally intended to launch on July 1, is still in the balance. At a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Caledonia Street
About 12.30 a.m. on Saturday a fire broke out in a four-roomed weatherboard cottage in Clarinda street, opposite Messrs. Wright, Heaton & Co's…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Coming Pictures “The Fire Brigade.”
“The Fire Brigade,” which will be screened at the Theatre Cowra next Tuesday, one of the many notable incidents is the jump made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire-proofing Children's Clothes
There is an easy and efficient method of fire-proofing the clothing of children, which everyone should know. Many tragedies can be averted by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FIRE! Weatherboard Cottage Burnt Firemen Hampered No Water Mains Nearby
The third fire in Forbes within a month occurred when a cottage on the Parkes Road, a short distance out of town, was razed to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Parkesborough
On the evening of the 3rd. inst., a weatherboard and pise house at Parkesborough, occupicd by Mr. P. E. J. Hetherington and his family, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fourth Fire Within One Month Outbreak in Barwon Street
The fourth fire in Forbes within one month broke out in a weatherboard cottage in Barwon Street last Saturday night. No…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Triple Calamities Fire, Drought, Flood "Chance to Live" Council Is Firm
Jemalong Council wants W. Madden, of Yarrabandai, to cut a dam on his properly to a lower level, as it is held that the water has flooded a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Up in Smoke Car Destroyed Early Morning Blaze
A five-seater Overland car, the property of Mr. W. Pender, a drover, and garaged at the residence of Mrs. M. J. Lovatt, North Hill, was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Parkesborough
On Wednesday morning (18th inst) it an early hour a four-roomed weatherboard cottage at Parltesborough was completely destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mysterious Fire. the Molong Road Case
Thomas Alexander Bain was charged at the Quarter Sessions to-day with maliciously setting fire to a house in Molong Road on May 22nd and lef…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Molong Road Fire the Case Before the Sessions. Thomas Alexander Bain Acquitted
The mysterious fire at the cottage In Molong Road, occupied by Thomas Alexander Bain, on May 22nd, still remains a mystery. Bain was presented at the Quarter Sessions on Monday on a charge of maliciously setting fire to the place, and voluminous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Petrol Depot Two Men Detained (By Wire) Sydney
Following a five at the Vaccum Oil Co's shed at North Wollongong, the police seized a number of cases in a house in the neighborhood and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Forbes Fire Old Hotel Suffers Three Rooms Destroyed
A fire broke out at 2.50 a.m. today, in the old South Forbes Hotel, owned by Mrs. Lender, of Tattersall's Hotel, Forbes…
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