Unable to Find Cause of Fire Adelaide
The Acting City Coroner (Mr. Zeising) today expressed himself as unable to find the cause of the fire in which Milton Coram, aged 35, of…
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Fire Costs Railways Dept. £6575 Claim by Farmers Tamworth
In the Supreme Court at Tamworth today before Mr Justice Herron, a settlement of claims by Richard John O’Halloran and Keith Rogers against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deliberate Attempt to Fire House, Police Believe Wollongong
Police believe that a deliberate attempt was made to bum down a Weatherboard house in Queen’s Par[?] this morning. The house is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Permits for Lighting of Fires
The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddely, points out that the recent notification in relation to the lighting of fires was made under the Bush…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cracksman Calls Fire Brigade SYDNEY
After expert cracksmen blew a safe in [?] garage early this morning the place caught fire, and police believe the anonymous caller who phoned the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pirates Murder, Rob, and Fire London
Piracy off Celebes has developed with a wave of violence on the island. according to Netherlands News[?] says Reuter’s correspondent at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£20,000 Fire Damages at Brush Factory SYDNEY
Fire caused damage estimated at £20.000 this afternoon when the two storeyed premises of Abraham Ltd., brush manufacturers, of Glebe, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire Burns Out Grazing Land Reported to Be Out of Control Lismore
A fire, which has already swept thousands of acres of Nimbin district, was reported tonight to be beyond control, as flames are being fanned by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Damages Historic Church Many Bush Blazes SYDNEY
Historic old All Saints’ Church. Woollahra, was one of many buildings damaged by lire in Sydney and suburbs today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drastic Fire Prohibition Order Minister Acts Under N.S. Regulations Sydney
Acting under National Security Regulations, which have existed since 1942, but which have not previously been invoked in this State,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at an Albury Garage
Albury Fire Brigade were called to a fire last night at [?] at the corner of David and Dean rage at the corner of David and Denn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Fighters Rushed From Dance Grim Battles to Subdue Flames Sydney
Left without partners when their companions were rushed in trucks to Ellengowan to help fight a bushfire, women danced with each other at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →May be Flare Up Between Jews and Arabs Terrorists Fire on Arab Policeman Jerusalem
When Jewish terrorists fired on an Arab policeman attacked Arab property in Jaffa during the bank raids on Friday, they broke a seven-years armistice between the Arabs and Jews and began what may be a new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goombargana Bush Fire Brigade Annual Meeting
About 20 people attended the annual meeting of the Goombargana Bush Fire Brigade at "Cragdurrock," the home of the president, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Matters Discussed by Conference Breaks to Be Ploughed
At a special meeting of the Coreen Shire Council on Monday of last week, a round-table discussion with representatives of District…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →26 Die in Two Plane Crashes Both Machines Destroyed by Fire Estevan (Sask.)
Twenty-one persons were killed when a RCAF Dakota transport plane crashed and was destroyed by fire when about to land at the Estevan aerodrome…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Fines And Gaol For Lighting Fires BRISBANE
Fines of up to £100 or five years imprisonment for breaches of the law relating to rural fires are provided for in the Rural Fires Bill which was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian News Serious Bushfires
Residents of Point Clare, on Brisbane Water, Broken Bay, have been seriously threatened by bushfires Which reached within 100 yards of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Bug Active? Attempt to Fire Wool Store SYDNEY
Kerosene was poured into a hollow under the door of a five-storey wool stores at Ultimo last night, and when it was set alight the blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Fire in Pine Forest SYDNEY
A denial that pine forests on the north coast were destroyed in recent bushfires was given tonight by the Minister for Conservation (Mr. Weir)…
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