It's an Ill Wind. P.F.A. Fire Provides Work. Sydney
Some 260 men are now engaged in salvage work at the gutted Pastoral Finance Association's buildings, and are making a rapid clearance of the burnt…
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Fires & bushfires, 1922
671 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 34
Holdings Burnt Out. Sweeping Bush Fires
SYDNEY, Saturday.—A bush fire swept Billabong Plains between Urana and Oaklands. Many holdings were burnt out and miles…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—An Adelaide message states that extensive bush fires, covering hundreds of square miles, have been raging in the north-cast of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Hundreds of Miles Burnt. Flames Forty Feet High. ADELAIDE
Extensive bush fires, covering hundreds of square miles, have been raging in the north-east for weeks. The grass in some l[?]calities was three feet high, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tweed Heads Fire. Blaze at St. Cuthbert's Church
A fire broke out in the vestry of St. Cuthbert's Church, Tweed Heads, early yesterday morning, but was subdued before much damage was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire in Manila. £12,000 Damage Done. (Reuter.)
LONDON, Friday.—Manila's greatest fire since the American occupation occurred to-day, when thirty-two blocks of houses were destroyed and damage done to the extent of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Standing Crop. Share Farmers Committed for Trial
SYDNEY, Saturday.—The Coroner at Forbes concluded an inquiry in regard to a fire which occurred in a standing crop[?] on Ronald Peter Morgan's farm on Ooma…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death From Burns. Mosquito Net Catches Fire. Sleeping Baby's End
BRISBANE, Friday.—A four months old child, Allen Radcliffe, met with a terrible death at his parents' residence at Murarrie yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five Deaths. Heavy Damage to Property. Fire at Glasgow. (Reuter.)
LONDON, Friday.—Five deaths and £500,000 sterling damage was caused by a fire at Glasgow. Huge railway goods stores were gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Melbourne Fire. Harbour Trust Property Alight
MELBOURNE, Sunday Night.—An immense stack of piles, the property of the Harbour Trust, Pitt-street, South Melbourne, close to the swinging basin and dock, caught…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Fire in Berlin. Eight Hundred People Injured. (Reuter.)
LONDON, Saturday.—Eight hundred were injured and fifty million marks damage done in a factory fire in Berlin…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--While attempting to subdue the flames from a fire., which broke out in a canvas ballroom in Centennial Park last night four men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Alarm at Tweed Heads
The Tweed Heads Fire Brigade got their first practice fire scare on Monday night, and acquitted themselves very well. The bell was rung at 20 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at a Church
An fire broke out in the vestry of St. Cuthbert 's Church, Tweed Heads, early on Sunday morning last, but was subdued before much damage was caused. When…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Destroys Hotel Narrow Escape of Boarders
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—At an early hour this morning a fire at Blackbutt totally destroyed the Royal Hotel and a barber's shop and billiard room adjoining. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Memorial Appeal Hanging Fire. a Mother's Letter
For some unaccountable reason the appeal for funds to erect a soldiers' memorial in Murwillumbahis hanging fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Blackbutt Damage Amounts to £7000. BRISBANE
At an early hour this morning a fi$e at Blackbutt totally destroyed the Royal Hotel and a barber shop and the billiard room adjoining. The damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ill-omened Start. Breakdown, Fire and Gale. Tales of Survivors
WELLINGTON, Wednesday.—Further particulars of the ill-fated Helen B. Sterling are that two days after the vessel left Newcastle the engine used for working the pumps…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Follows Strike Incident in Far West. Broken Hill
It is stated that 100 men have struck work at Timms and Kidman's works at Ruff's Creek, in the western district, and also that a. shed containing £5000 worth…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Two big fires oc-curred in the city this morning. Grace Bros.' furniture depository store, at the corner of Parramatta and Ross…
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