Fire Chief Retires
Mr. Thomas Pierce Hains Nance, M.B.E., Chief Officer in charge of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades, will retire next month, after 38 years' service…
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Fires & bushfires, 1934
75 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 4
Latest Cables. Fire Havoc in Japan. Tokio, 22334
Two-thirds of the city of Hakodate was destroyed by fire. The casualties are 650 burnt to death and died in emergency hospitals, while several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Open Verdict Evidence Regarding Fire at Mr. Farren's Property, Taylor's Arm
At Bowraville on Friday last, 16th March, an inquisition was held at the Court House before Mr. W. D. Hodge, District Coroner, into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Awful Fire Hundreds Dead and Thousands Homeless Sydney
Tokio: Two-thirds of the city of Hakodate were destroyed by fire. The casualties were:—killed, six hundred and fifty burnt to death and died in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Brigades. Chief Officer to Retire
Mr. Thomas Pierce Mains Nance. M.B.E., chief officer in charge of the New South Wales Tire Brigades, will retire shortly, after 38 years service…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Gloucester. Volunteers Make Splendid Save
Gloucester nearly bad another big fire on Saturday morning. At about 2.30 that day the night officer at the railway fetation. noticed a big…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman Fights Fire Alone
A house 230 years old, Spring House at Merton, was almost destroyed by fire lately. In the garden is an elm tree…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Story of Jericho Earthquake and Fire Evidence From Excavations
The abundant materials recovered during the past season from the Palace area of Jericho justify definite conclusions as to the main epochs of the city's history…
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At Grafton Quarter Sessions, Thursday, Victor Roy Copas and Cecil Harold Eggins were jointly charged with having maliciously set fire to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Chief Retires
Joining the N.S.W. Fire Brigades as a, fourth-class fireman, Mr. Thomas P. H. Nance, M.B.E., retired at midnight on Saturday night…
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It was just as well that there were a number of men present in Mr. Sid Cork's billiard room on Wednesday afternoon, April 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Howie Burnt Down Tuesday Night's Blaze
Between 11 p.m. and midnight on Tuesday the residence of Mr. Ray West, together with all contents, was destroyed by fire. The cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Survival of the Great Fire. London Relic to Disappear
Oldest of the Courts of Chancery, where law students of the 14th century studied before taking chambers, Clifford's Inn, a quaint and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Stratford
On Friday morning last a fire destroyed a motor lorry, two carts, several sets of harness and two saddles, besides horse feed and numerous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Petrol Waggon on Fire. Sydney
When a petrol waggon struck an electric light pole and burst into flames on the Pinces' Highway, Sutherland, to-day, a man whose name is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Petrol Waggon Fire Man Incinerated
Peter McMahon, 22, of O'Connor street, Harberleid, was burned to death and Ernest Yabsley, 23, of O'Connor Street, Haberfield, was injured on…
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Oldest of the Courts of Chancery, where law students of the 14th century studied before taking chambers, Clifford's Inn, a quaint and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tragic End in Quarrel Husband Fires at Wife Sydney
Following a quarrel at his home at Rockhampton, William John Owens, 64, fired at his wife, as she was running for safety through the back gate. Shortly…
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Two children, aged eight and nine years respectively, behaved heroically by rescuing their baby brother and sister from fire which broke out the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stratford Fire Coroner's Inquiry
At the local police court on Tuesday morning the Coroner, Mr. A. J. White, conducted an inquiry into the fire at Stratford, by which a shed…
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