Cessnock Fire "Not Accidental"
The Deputy-Coroner (Mr. J. R. Scott), conducted an inquiry at Cessnock Court-house yesterday morning into a fire which destroyed a five-roomed weatherboard…
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Fires & bushfires, 1930
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£1000 Damage Furniture Factory Fire Melbourne
A thousand pounds worth of damage was done by a fire in Tunbridge and Sons' furniture factory, in Ryrie-street, Geelong, this afternoon. The outbreak was due to…
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A large furniture store and adjacent buildings were destroyed in a fire at Camperdown, this morning. The lives of firemen and onlookers were endangered…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gully Line Blaze
There was a big grass fire at the Gully Line, New Lambton, to-day, about 20 acres of grass being burnt. The blaze on one side of the…
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Several grass fires, thought to be started by the intense heat which prevailed on Saturday, caused a little excitement at Lambton. The services of the fire brigade…
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This is the first occasion that the fire brigades had to fight petrol fires. Special equipment for such blazes, however, was available. Water was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fire Mayfield Outbreak
Waratah Fire Brigade was called out this morning to extinguish a grass fire on a small allotment on the corner of Maud-street and Maitland-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Toronto Establishment of Fire Brigade
Mr. Booth, M.L.A., has been informed by the Chief Secretary's Department, relative to his request to establish a fire district at Toronto, that members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spectacular Fire on Oil Tanker
A snap of the blazing bridge of the oil-tanker, British Honour, which caught fire in Newcastle Harbor this morning. Safety devices operated, confining the petrol blaze to one tank. Otherwise the whole ship may have been blown up and the flames may have menaced the city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire Damage Estimated at £100,000 Paint Works Destroyed Sydney
The second disastrous fire in Sydney within a week occurred yesterday afternoon, when the big paint works of Major Bros. and Company, Ltd., at Cabarita,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wharf Fires Agitation for Float
Newcastle shipping circles have been reawakened by the fire to the necessity for better harbor fire appliances in this port…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five Shops Destroyed Queensland Country Fire Cairns
A disastrous fire broke at Babinda at 4 p.m. to-day and raged for three hours. The outbreak originated in the main portion of Smith's store, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Self-loading Rifle Invention of American FIRES 50 Rounds a Minute London, February 24
The "Daily Telegraph" military correspondent says that that the long-sought ideal of an efficient self-loading rifle has been realised, and the weapon is now being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ship on Fire Oil Tanker Badly Damaged City Sensation Peril of Blazing Oil
The oil tanker, British Honour, was considerably damaged by fire while the vessel lay at the Wickham wharf yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Dole to Go If Premier's Latest Conference Does Not Succeed INQUIRY Fire On Oil Ship Coroner Acts
The cause of the spectacular fire on the British Honour at Wickham is to be the subject of an inquiry by the…
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The Newcastle Fire Brigade was called to a small grass fire on the railway tracks at Hannell-street yesterday. The fire was extinguished with buckets of water…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£1500 DAMAGE Two Buildings Burned Fire at Darlington Sydney
A fire which broke out in Codrington-street, Darlington, to-night, severely damaged two buildings and blistered the walls and ceilings of an adjoining property…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Oil Ship Fire Inquiry for Board of Trade Before Inquest
Before the inquest into the cause of the fire on the British Honour, a preliminary inquiry is to be held by the Commonwealth Navigation…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire on Oil Ship Coroner to Hold Inquiry Vessel to Be Docked
The outbreak of fire on the oil steamer British Honour, on Monday, will have the attention of the several authorities with a view to an investigation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Oil Fires "Devastating Potentialities" Councils Concerned
Not only the Wlekham aldermen and local shipping and commercial men are appalled at what was termed to-day the…
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