Fires at Albury Albury
Fire raked a weatherboard house in Engleheardt street, on Saturday night. Only the shell of the building remained standing. The occupant,…
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Washhouse on Fire
Shortly alter 7 o'clock last night the Wagga Fire Brigade received a call to a house at the corner of Richard and Coleman streets where a…
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During church hours yesterday morning, the fire bell changed for a town life. The grass in the Methodist parsonage yard was blazing. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Leeton Brigade's Brilliant Save Leeton
Shortly before 7 p.m. this evening a fire broke out in M'Kenzie's garage, Kurrajong Avenue. Leeton. The Leeton Fire Brigade, under…
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WHEN clouds of black smoke, which had billowed furiously from McKenzies garage in Kurrajong Avenue, ceased last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raids on Berlin Nazis Admit Fires and Rail Damage London, Monday. (A.A.P.)
Germany's first modest account of last night's air raids, which originally declared that British aircraft reached only the suburbs of Berlin where they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Raids on Germany Mannheim Factories Bombed Previous Fires Still Burning LONDON
In view of Germany's shortage of nitric acid for explosives and her reliance on the export of dyes and chemicals as a valuable source of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Asked for Inquiry, Did Not Attend Action of Insurance Companies Criticised By Coroner Rules Cause of Yanco Store Fire Accidental
ALTHOUGH representatives of insurance companies had requested that an inquiry should be held into the destruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Leeton LEETON
Late on Thursday night the Leeton Fire Brigade was called to a small outbreak of fire in an empty shop next door to [?] Cafe, Pine avenue, where some bedding has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South Gundagai Bush Fire Brigade Response Has Been Disappointing
The annual meeting of the South Gundagai Bush Fire Brigade was held at Hawthorne’s Hotel on Saturday night, those present being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire 300 Acres of Grass Destroyed Timber Also
About 300 acres of grass and a good deal of timber were burnt when a bush fire started on the property of Mr. Harold Heckendorf, "Top Reefs," about…
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Damage estimates at £30,000 was caused by a fire which swept the premises of the Warwick Farmers' Milling Company at Warwick early to-day…
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The Bush Fires Advisory Committee has issued a warning to all campers, hikers, motorists, picnickers, and others who will be visiting the country…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Wamoon Sudden Blaze Quelied Leeton
While burning off operations were in progress on Mr. Cole's property in the Wamoon district this morning, the strong wind that was blowing from the south-west caused…
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The Wagga Fire Brigade was summoned to two fires yesterday. The first was at 1.30 p.m. when a quantity of rubbish caught alight along the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring Pastoralist Builds Own Fire Unit Fire Loss Detrimental to War Effort
In these days when waste, particularly the destruction of primary produce, stock and farm equipment by fire, is detrimental to the nation's war effort, Mr. Dudley Angas, well-known pastoralist, of Hill River Station, Clare, S.A., has displayed a splendid spirit by reducing fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Destroys Newspaper Office Moree
The office of the Moree-Gwydic: "Examiner," established 56 years ago. was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. Damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →0Rungal Fire Marine Inquiry Opened Melbourne
Preliminary inquiries have been opened by an officer of the Commonwealth Marine branch into the cause of the fire which broke out on the inter-State steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Stopped Few Yards Off House by Water Bucketed From Irrigation Ditch
WHEN a row of stately palm trees caught alight on Capt. Nevis Farrell's property at Wamoon, the cottage, only a few…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Yanco Coroner's Inquiry Assessors and Insurance Companies Criticised LEETON
At the conclusion of an inquiry into the circumstances of the fire which destroyed the general store of Mrs. M. D. Ward at Yanco on the night of…
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