Fire at Botany Wool Wash Premises Destroyed SYDNEY
Good work by firemen prevented the spreading of a serious fire in the wool wash of Samuel and Charles Allingham, in Botany, to-day…
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Fires & bushfires, 1935
782 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 40
Bush Fires Raging in New Zealand Many Houses Burnt Train Ready to Evacuate Townspeople Wellington (N.z.)
Bush fires are raging in several areas. In the Catlins area, the flames extend along a 50-mile front, making an awe-inspiring…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Many Bales Saved Goldsbrough, Mort Fire SYDNEY
Although it was reported that the fire at Goldsbrough, Mort and Company's wool store at Pyrmont had destroyed 30,000 bales of wool, an examination of the ruins…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Car on Fire Bowser Attendant Burned Admitted to Hospital Sydney
While trying to subdue the flames of a burning car at a garage at Parramatta to-night, Lance Milgate, 22, a mechanic, of Parramatta, was burned about the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bush Fire Near Gosford Gosford
Throwing a pall of smoke over the town below, a bush fire crackled through the densely timbered country on top of President's Hill to-night. On the slopes of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire Coff's Harbor
A cottage owned by the Railway Department at the jetty was totally destroyed by fire early to-day. A neighboring cottage was badly damaged, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eliminating Fire Risk Value of Suits of Asbestos Success in Britain
The disastrous fire which occurred in a Sydney wool store focuses attention upon the experimental work being done to eliminate fire risks by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfires in Sydney Suburbs SYDNEY
Firemen from metropolitan and suburban brigades had a busy time quelling bushfires that occurred in various suburbs to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →School Fires
Sir,—Why is it that teachers and pupils during bitter, cold weather cannot have a fire at the department's expense? Children of some schools must endure…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Destructive Fire in Country £10,000 Damage Melbourne
Spreading rapidly, a fire, which started in the office of Paul Cross, stock and station agent at Culgoa, near Sea Lake, at 4.45 a.m. to-day, did damage…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Chitter Fire Extension in Gibson-street City Council Advised
At the meeting of the Newcastle City Council last night, a letter was read from the Under-Secretary, Department of Mines, advising that the material which was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dust and Heat Farmers Warned of Bush Fires
Rising temperatures and hot west to north-west winds, which have caused severe duststorms over western areas, are responsible for heat…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Victorian Fire Hotel and Two Stores No Brigade or Water Supply MELBOURNE
Beginning in the office of Paul Cross a stock and station agent, a fire destroyed the building, and then gutted the Kaneira Hotel and G. Copeland's store, adjoining,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →False Fire Alarm Milk Carter Bound Over SYDNEY
Douglaz Ormond Vincent, 21, a milk carter, was fined £3 and bound over for 12 months when he was convicted at Newtown Police Court to-day on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Factory Fire Firemen Save Houses Second Outbreak Quelled.sydney
When a fire gutted the galvanised iron and wood factory of Hygrade Manufacturing Co., Paling-street, Leichardt, late this afternoon, damage estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inquest on Wool Store Fire Sydney
The City Coroner (Mr. Oram) has decided to hold an inquest on October 22 concerning the fire which destroyed Goldsbrough Morl's wool store at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Geelong Wharf Fire Incendiarism Suspected MELBOURNE
A fire broke out among ropes, tarpaulins and other loading tackle at the Geelong wharf building at the lunch hour to-day Fifty motor-cars and bodies had been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush Fire Near Middle Harbour Firemen Stand by Sydney
Fanned by a strong north-westerly wind, a bush fire, which began on Sugar Loaf Mountain, Willoughby, this afternoon, swept on a three-mile front towards…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Pyrmont Fire Inquiry Sydney
The City Coroner (Mr. E. T. Oram) will inquire on October 23 into the fire which destroyed Goldshrough, Mort's wool store at Pyrmont in, September. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires Round Sydney Scrub Blazes in Many Parts Narrow Escapes Sydney
At least twenty people had narrow escapes when a bush fire hemmed in three cottages at Seaforth, near Manly, to-day…
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