£65 SURPLUS Kyogle Fire Brigade Finance Report to Council
Details of the revenue and expenditure of Kyogle fire district were contained in a statement submitted to yesterday's meeting…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
602 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 31
£18,000 DAMAGE Fires in New Zealand
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: -- Fire caused £8000 damage at a Christchurch bacon factory. Flames swept through £2000 worth of pigs on hooks, melting…
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THE Minister for Defence (Mr. Thorby) to-day made available a summary of the report of the Air Accidents Committee and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two Families Have Narrow Escape Disatrous Fire At Laidley
LAIDLEY, Wednesday:-- Two families narrowly escaped death, a woman was injured and damage amounting to…
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The district coroner (Mr. H. Hawkins) has decided not to hold an inquiry into a fire which destroyed a motor car on Richmond Hill road on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Open Verdict Factory Fire Inquiry at Malunganie Casino
Holding that the evidence did not enable him to arrive at the origin of the fire which destroyed the Mallanganee butter factory on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Fire Bug" Operating at Gladstone? Fifth Fire in Two Months
GLADSTONE, Friday:--A one storey wooden building in Goondoon Street was gutted by a fire which broke out at 3.45 this morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Minimise Fire Risk Fire Extinguishers. For R.A.A.F. Planes
MELBOURNE, Friday:--All Royal Australian Air Force planes will in future carry automatic fire extinguishers, and orders have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fire in Melbourne. Firemen Receive Burns
MELBOURNE, Sunday:--Three Bremen were treated for burns to the face and hands this evening when barrels of tar exploded during a fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nuns' Hurried Departure Fire in Adjoining Building Runaway Bus Creates Excitement
SYDNEY, Sunday:--Nuns of the Sisterhood of St. Joseph's, who were at prayers in the chapel on Saturday night, had to leave…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Damage in Victoria. Melbourne
One of the worst fires in the history of Tecoma and Belgrave districts occurred yesterday. Two furnished houses and one in course…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anti-gas Suits Air Raid Equipment for Fire-Fighters
Anti-gas suits, designed in England for fire-fighters engaged in decontamination work following an air raid, have been delivered in Sydney…
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BELIEVED to have been caused by spontaneous combustion among bales of wool and bags of zinc oxide, a fire broke out in No. 1 hold of the steamer, Hunter, after it left Newcastle for Sydney with 75 passengers on board at 11.39…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Dashes Into Sydney at Full Speed Outbreak of Fire During Heavy Seas
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Fire broke out in 14 tons of zinc oxide at the bottom of No. 1 hold, of the steamier Hunter early this morning when the vessel, carrying 75 passengers, 32 of a crew and cargo from Newcastle to Sydney, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Home Destroyed by Fire Casino
The home of Mr. Albert Edward Palmer, a returned soldier settler, of Dyraaba Arm, was destroyed by fire. The family escaped in their night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lay in Fire for Half an Hour Elderly Man Sustains Shocking Burns
MELBOURNE, Wednesday:-- For half an hour, Mr. C. A. Powell (77), of Moreland Road, Brunswick, lay in a fire in the back yard of his home…
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LONDON, Sunday:--Sixty firemen fought an outbreak in a furniture depository at Stoke Newington early this morning. Police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires on French Warship Italian Societies Involved
PARTS, Sunday:--An Admiralty inquiry has established that three fires aboard the battleship Strasbourg involve Italian secret…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wesley Lit a Fire That Warmed the World the Risk
At a largely attended Met hodist Church service held at The Risk, Rev. S. G. Claughton made special reference to the 200th anniversary of Wesley's coversion and the bi-centenary of Methodism, which from a small beginning had spread…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Chinchilla Fire Damage of About £12,000
CHINCHILLA, Wednesday:--A fire broke cut in the main business section of the town shortly before 2 a.m. and swept through a…
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