Water Shortage Fire Fighters Handicapped Engineer Inquiring
"I have not received the full report yet concerning the shortage of water during a fire at Carrington," said Mr. Henson, Water Board…
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Fires & bushfires, 1924
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A Fatal Fire Heroic Rescue Attempts. Sydney
Mrs. W. Yates, aged about 70, met a shocking death at her home, 167 Victterin-street, Darlinghurst, to-night. A fire broke out in the room in which she…
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While Mr. F. D. Ackland, the Liberal candidate for Tiverton, was reading a lesson in church, he was summoned home to Kellerton Park, where a fire had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canton Fighting Fire and Looting Sun Yat Sen Condemned (Australian Cable Association.) SHANGHAI
Opinion in Hongkong deprecates the Communists' congratulatory telegram on Dr. Sun Yat Sen's so-called magnificent victory. It considers the burning of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wireless an Bush Fires
The Wist Australian Forestry Department propones to introduce portable wireless sets to help the State in fighting forest fires. With the aid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Through Fire Zone Bellbird Exploration Work on Stoppings
About 10 o'clock yesterday morning the Proto men engaged in reopening the Bellbird colliery broke through the debris in the tunnel,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saved His Sister Boy's Heroism In Fire One Girl Dies Melbourne
Detecting an outbreak of fire in a boarding house at Tempo yesterday, Roy Heyland rushed into the bedroom where his two sisters, Kathleen,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in London
There was a sensational fire yesterday in the kinema quarter of London, which necessitated forty-five engines being brought into action…
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At an early hour this morning a fire took place on premises situated at the corner of Metcalfe and Close streets, a double-fronted wooden cottage occupied…
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Thousands of pounds' worth of damage was caused by a fire which broke out on the ground floor of a four-storied brick building, owned by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Fire Early Morning Outbreak
A six-roomed cottage in Metcalfe and Short streets, Wallsend, owned and occupied by Mr. D. Roberts, was totally destroyed by fire about one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallsend Tuesday Morning's Fire
The fire which destroyed the residence of Mr. D. Roberts, close to Metcalfe-street, early yesterday morning, was discovered by Messrs. W. R. Hughes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Drill Adamstown Troop
The first Adamstown troops of Boy Scouts is receiving instruction in fire drill from the officer in charge of the local fire station, Captain Kimber…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Tokio London
As the result of a fire in Tokio, which consumed over 600 barrack buildings, 21 persons were killed, and 30 injured. The barracks were used for housing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Fire Defective Flue
At 3.12 a.m. to-day the West Maitland fire brigade received a call to the Hunter River Hotel. East Maitland, Station- officer Turner and five men were…
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A play whose ending seems almost tame by reason of an unusually stirring first reel is The Fire Patrol. which will be screened at the Strand…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mine on Fire
A message from Mayence states that numerous fire brigades are fighting the flames in the Mont Cenis mine at Solingen…
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Cessnock was the scene of another fire on Saturday night when a workshop, occupied by Mr. Dunstan, a signwriter, at the rear of Claytons'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Fight Fire Adamstown Improvements
Considerable improvements have been effected to the Adamstown fire station, under the direction of District-officer Hillier…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Forest Fires in the United States Great Damage Done (Australian Cable Association.) New York
The nation-wide drought is approaching the fortieth consecutive rainless day, causing tremendous damage, due to forest fires, which arise everywhere,…
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