Fire at Alexandria. Old Tyres and Sulphur Burn. SYDNEY
Damage, estimated at several thousand pounds, was done to the Century Storage Battery Company's premises at Alexandria. which…
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Firemen Trapped in Factory Blaze Sydney
Considerable damage was caused by a fire, which destroyed part of the factory of Century Storage Battery Co. Ltd., Alexandria, to-day. Tens…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Destroys Convent Wellington (N.z.)
Damage estimated at £4000. was caused when a fire destroyed the Convent of the Dominican Sisters at Auckland to-day. The only occupants of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Taxi on Fire After Smashing Pole Brisbane
Swerving off the road and cutting a telephone pole in two, a taxicab overturned anti caught fire early to-day on Breakfast Creek road. The driven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire’s Rapid Spread Auckland
When a boarding house and a block of flats were destroyed by fire at Hor[?] to-day, 18 people lost all their belongings because the fire spread so…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →France Face to Face with a Crisis Political Fires Again Flare Up Sequel to M. Daladier’s Speech Need For Internal Stability Great PARIS. August 11
Political fires have again flared up as a result of the resignation of m. Frossard and M. Ramadier, which followed a speech on policy by the Prime Minister (Mr. Daladier), in which he appealed for solidarity and co-operation in French industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Planes Crash in Flames Six Persons Die Factory Also Set on Fire Tokio, August 24
When an instructional plane and a passenger machine collided in mid-air ever O[?]ori, both crashed in flames on to an iron works which caught on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Factory Fire Car Polish and Chemicals Destroyed
Damage estimated at several hundreds of pounds was caused by fire in the factory and service station of Mo to rite Equipments Pty. Ltd., Peel…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Fire at Junee House Destroyed When Lamp Capsizes
A fire destroyed a five-roomed weather 'board cottage on the Wagga road, adjoining M'Williams' vineyard Junee, on Saturday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →LOST £187 in Fire Shopkeeper's Misfortune Sydney
When Mr. E. Berry, proprietor of a weatherboard shop at Long Bay, was awakened this morning by fumes, he discovered that the premises were on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£8000 Worth of Tobacco Goes Up in Smoke Fire in Wareshouse Melbourne
Australian tobacco leaf valued at £8000 was destroyed by a are which broke out on the second and third floors of a three-storied warehouse, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on Station Valuable Records Lost
Damage amounting to £1200 was caused by a fire at Penola Station, South Australia, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rymill. They lost…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£2000 Fire at Moree Moree
When the furniture shop owned by Mr. R. George was destroyed by fire last night, damage estimated at £2000 was caused. Firemen prevented the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Lampshade Factory Melbourne
About £1000 worth of damage was done by a fire which swept through A. E. Bedford’s lampshade and furnishing factory in Claremont St., South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Horrible Scenes When Plane Crashes 10 Dead; Many Injured Three Houses Catch Fire Lives Forfeited in Heroic Rescue Attempts LONDON, September 4
Ten persons are dead, 19 have been injured, five critically, as a result of a Royal Air Force aeroplane crashing on top of a residence in Dunholme road, Edmonton, catching on fire, and then bouncing on to another house on the other side of the road, where the petrol, tank exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Kills Many Japanese 7000 Also Homeless Tokio, September 6
A hundred were killed and injured, and 7000 are homeless, as a result of a fire which destroyed, half the town of Himimachi…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fire Dangers Sydney
The Bush Fire Advisory Committee is [?]unching an extensive campaign to develop “bush fire danger” complex among the country people of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£3000 Fire in VARNlSH Factory Melbourne
Polishes and veneers, valued of [?] were destroyed by fire which gutted the factory of the Perfection Co at Balaclava to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thieves Set Fire to Shop £300 Damage Done Mysterious Circumstances [?]Wora
Detective-Sergeant McRae. of Sydney, will commence investigations tomorrow morning into a mysterious five which occurred on Saturday night in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Wangaratta
At 2 p.m. yesterday a fire broke out in the Tip Top toy works of Mr. R. Little , Reld street. Wangaratta, and destroyed almost the whole of the…
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