£7000 Fire Damage to Mission Building
BRISBANE, Sunday : Fire which gutted the top floor of the City Mission building in the Valley early yesterday is estimated…
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8 Children Die in Fire
WILLIAMSPORT (Penn.), Mon: The bodies of eight children were yesterday removed from the blackened ruins of their two-storey…
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Because of the lush growth of grass following the late spring rains, the bush fire danger is considered to bed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£200,000 Sydney Fire
SYDNEY, Tues.: A motor assembly plant, completed only a few weeks ago, and 200 new cars and trucks, were…
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At a meeting of landholders at Nyora on Wednesday, 7th December, it was decided to reform the Nyora Bushfire Brigade, with boundaries enclosing all…
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WAGGA, Wed: A crop fire on a farm at Mangoplah today caused damage estimated at about £1500…
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Mr James Byrnes, former U.S. Secretary of State, stated recently that too many people in America were thinking of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Chiliern’s Fire Plugs To Be Renewed
In the event of outbreaks of fire in certain parts of Chiltern, difficulties would have been experienced by the urban fire brigade in…
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A grass fire occurred on Mr. Boyd's property at Yerong Creek on Tuesday afternoon. The outbreak was got under control after about 40 acres had…
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The general store owned by W. J. Gorman Pty. Ltd., Belmore st., Yarrawonga, narrowly escaped destruction by fire…
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A 1948 Jaguar car; the property of Mr. and Mrs. Burns Reid, Moroco Station, Lower Tocumwal [?]oad, Deniliquin,…
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Resolution seeking the immediate delegation of Ministerial power to prohibit the lighting of any fires in the open air with…
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Albury fire brigade was called out on Saturday when a truck, owned by Mr J. H. Carstens, of Macauley st., Albury, caught…
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Ammunition exploded when fire gutted a three-roomed weather-board house in Huon lane, Wodonga, on Saturday…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: A 43 year old horse driver, Frederick Imiach, risked his life to save six horses from being burned to death in an…
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At about 5.30 on Friday afternoon last the fire alarm sounded, and it was soon learned that the outbreak was at Mr. W. Barkley's property…
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SYDNEY, Mon: Extensive damage was done to haulage gear, motors, equipment and buildings, by fire which broke out at Bellbird…
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Picture shows the damage done by fire to the general store of W. J. Gorman Pty Ltd., Belmore st, Yarra-wonga. Fortunately the back wall of the store was brick, otherwise the fire would have caused considerable…
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THE lush spring and summer—beneficial though the growth of pastures and grasslands has been to the man on the land—have left a fearful legacy, the ever increasing danger of bush fires…
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AS dawn broke over London today, smoke blackened firemen were still fighting the city’s worst blaze for 20 years. The blaze is beneath the famous Covent Garden flower…
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