Tannery Fire at Goulburn
SYDNEY, Sunday:-- A building, machinery and stock valued at from £15,000 to £20,000, were destroyed when fire broke out in a tannery and leather…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
602 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 31
Astonishing People Coals of Fire
He heaped coals of fire on our heads. In the mad days of the Great War, when Englishmen were taught to believe that Germans were their enemies, and Germans were taught to think that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fined £20 for False Fire Alarm Wellington (N.z.)
Saying that the offence was a serious one, and it had to stop, the magistrate at Auckland police court to-day fined Robert Feak £20 for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heroic Rescue From Fire Proved Of No Avail SYDNEY
G. H. Snelling told the Parramatta District Coroner to-day how, though almost blinded, he beat out flames and helped to rescue Edward Welch (21),…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£40,000 Sydney Blaze Was Blow to Graziers Sydney
Damage estimated at £40,000 was caused by a fire which, fed by 600 tons of highly inflammable linseed, destroyed the mill room…
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Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire at the recently constructed linseed oil factory of James Barnes and Co., at Alexandria…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Brigades Union Threatens Direct Action. Sydney
At a meeting of the Fire Brigades Union, held at the Trades Hall, last night, a resolution was unanimously carried threatening direct action unless the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage Estimated at £50,000 Oil Mills Gutted by Fire
SYDNEY, Thursday:-- An electrical short circuit is believed to have caused a fire which early this morning destroyed a…
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The heroism of Fire Chief William Aitken saved five lives after an explosion and fire in a colliery at Hinton (Alberta)…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Heroic Foreman Saved Lives Lives in Colliery Fire
OTTAWA, Thursday:--A message from Hinton (Alberta) states that the heroism cf William Aitken, a fire boss…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Demonstration Banned Fire Brigades Union Project
SYDNEY, Sunday.--Police have advised the Fire Brigades Union that the contemplated procession of firemen through the city streets…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Open Verdict Fire at Farm House Casino
The coroner (Mr. Elsmer Jones) yesterday held an inquiry regarding a fire which destroyed a farm house on March 18 at Woodview on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eventful Day for Family Drowning Escape Car Destroyed by Fire
SYDNEY, Sunday:--The family of Mr. C. H. Water house, of the Imperial Hotel, Allied Street, North Sydney, had on eventful day…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Employees on night shift had to run for safety early to-day when a fire which started at the factory of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Banned! Fire Brigades Procession of Protest. Sydney
The procession which the Fire Brigade employees arranged through the city today as a protest against the refusal to reduce their working week to 56 hours…
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Late on Monday night Mr. Roy Butler, of Tyalgum, saw a fire in a heap of rubbish close to a shed in which were four motor lorries and over 30…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Foiled Thieves Set Kiosk on Fire SYDNEY
Failing to find any money thieves last night set fire to the Botanic Gardens kiosk. Before the fire was extinguished damage amounted to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blaze on Swedish Ship Copra and Wheat Cargo Damaged
LONDON, Wednesday.-- The Swedish motorship Tisnaren, bound from Sydney to Hull and Oslo, caught afire at Charlton Buoys, in the Thames…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in the City Employees Escape Being Trapped. Sydney
Fifty employees escaped from the first and second floors of Westcott Hazel's building in Catlereagh Street, to-day, when a fire occurred in the electric…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cathedral Fire Organ Damaged
LONDON, Saturday-- During the first psalm at evensong in the Horwich Cathedral, fire broke out in the organ loft. The choir…
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