In Shop After Fire
Police noticed two young men on Sunday afternoon scrambling among the ruins of an Annandale boot shop that had been destroyed by fire the previous day. The…
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Fires & bushfires, 1929
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"Not Our Fault" "Will Fight Hire and Fire" Miners' Reply
The northern minors' secretary (Mr. McNeill) Indignantly replied this afternoon to the statements of the chairman of the Newcastle Gas Company…
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A fire broke out this afternoon in a big store at the rear of Grainger and Falkiner's main building in John-street. The outbreak had its origin among a…
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A four-roomed weatherboard cottage in Mill-street, East Maitland, owned by the estate of the late Mrs. A. Moon, and occupied by Mr. C. F. Graves, was destroyed…
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A false alarm given to Carrington and Wickham fire brigades yesterday, and which sent them both hurrying to the Steel Works, stresses the necessity for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fires American Forests Ablaze New York, August 7
Damage, estimated at £200,000, and the destruction of thousands of acres of valuable forests, have occurred in five States as the result of fires, which are raging…
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Sir,—I sew where Mr. O'Sullivan wants the masters to have the power to "hire and fire" any of their employees. This is something that I have cause to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Oil-tanker Fire Terrific Explosion Men Blown Through Air Melbourne
With noise that could be heard more than a mile distant, an explosion took place this afternoon on the oil-tanker Falsterbo, lying at the Gellibrand Pier,…
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The fourth hold-up took place in Harbour-street, not far from Dixon-street. A Chinese was walking leisurely along the footpath, when he was stopped by two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boys Start Forest Fires "To See the Firemen and Soldiers at Work" CANNES
The mystery surrounding the recent disastrous forest fires, which have caused damage to hundreds of thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heroic Nun Life for Sacrament Convent Fire Tragedy London, August 10
In a desperate effort to save the Blessed Sacrament from the flames, Sister Celestine, Acting-Reverend Mother of St. Patrick's Convent, at Hayling Island,…
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Portion of the drill hall at Orange was destroyed by fire to-day. The fire brigade was hampered by poor water pressure, but prevented the total destruction of…
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At 3.13 a.m. yesterday the Weston Fire Brigade received a call to an outbreak of fire in an unoccupied weatherboard cottage on the corner of Kline and Second…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Caused a Fire Refrigerating Machine Explodes Perth
The explosion of a portable refrigerating machine, in which ammonia was being used, caused a fire in the premises of Taufik-road, William, to-day. The…
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When the new fire station is erected in Church-street, West Maitland, on the site now occupied by Caroline Place, which was built in 1844, it is generally hopes'…
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Mr. J. T. Richards, Coroner, will hold an inquiry at the Kurri Kurri Courthouse this morning concerning the fire at Kurri Kurri on July 29, when Mrs. J. Boxall's…
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About 1[?]0 people will be thrown out of work as the result of a disastrous fire which broke out at A. London's boot factory in Elizabeth-street Redfern on…
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But for the efficiency of automatic fire extinguishers, a big outbreak of fire might have occurred at Anthony Hordern's emporium, in Sydney, on…
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Not only human beings with a mistaken sense of humor give false fire alarms. Automate fire-alarms also do this…
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Fire threatened the destruction of Wood Coffill Ltd. premises, In Camperdown, this afternoon. The building is between two motor garages,…
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