So He Set His Sweetheart's Home on Fire
NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.) A 22-year-old man who had quarrelled with his sweetheart set fire to the appartment house…
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Careless Campers Believed to Have Caused Fire at Coolac
Careless campers are believed have been responsible for an out break of fire on Tuesday morning last when three acres of grassland…
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Careless campers are believed to have been responsible for an outbreak of fire when three acres of grassland on Butler's Reserve…
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AUCKLAND (New Zealand) (A.A.P.-Reuter). Sunday: Two lives were lost when a fire destroyed a large boarding house…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Griffith Rice Mill £50,000 Damage by Fire Store Saved
A fire which burned the, Griffith rice mill to the ground on Saturday afternoon destroyed machinery and milling equipment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£50,000 Fire at Griffith Mill No Serious Effect on M.I.A. Rice Industry
The destruction of the Griffith rice mill by fire on Saturday afternoon would not seriously affect the rice industry on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. Mr. H. E. Meyer, secretary-manager of the…
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ON Saturday afternoon last the rice mill in Banna Avenue Griffith, was destroyed by fire. The mill proper,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Griffith Rice Mill £50,000 DAMAGE
Fire on Saturday destroyed the Griffith Rice Mills, causing damage estimated, at £50,000. All the machinery was destroyed…
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James Herbert Winnell, Ganmain, pleaded guilty to leaving a fire in the open before same was extinguished. Const. Smith stated that on 21st…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foreign Policy Under Fire All Party Parliamentary Committee Urged
Crowded public, diplomatic and Press galleries' listened in rapt attention to a lucidly forceful exposition of foreign affairs,…
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A small blaze in a store containing £4000 worth of empty bags, owned by the Murrumbidgee Milling Co., was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire at Bectric
A fire swept through about 30 acres of grassland on Mr. Wm Giles's Highbury property at Bectric on Sunday afternoon. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →66ft. Fire Break not Practicable Opinion of Carrathool Shire
The Carrathool Shire Council is to contact the Chief Secretary cand suggest that the clause of the Careless Use of Fire Act be amended…
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Voluntary firemen quickly put out a scrub fire at Batlow last week before any extensive damage was caused. The fire…
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Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bush had the misfortune to lose their home and the contents in a fire at Jerrawa. They had…
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A 4-roomed workmen's barracks on Mr. E. M. Herring's property at Batlow was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Cowra Mill Bagged Wheat Saved
About £50,000 worth of bagged wheat stacked around the Cowra Flour Mill, nearly went up In (lames on Monday night…
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A fire which caused £20,000 damage occurred at the Kiewa electrical undertaking, Victoria. Severe damage was done to…
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ALBURY, Wednesday: A fire which caused £20,000 damage occurred at the Klewa electrical undertaking,…
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A mouse almost set a house alight in Cowra this week. The owner of the house had just lit a fire under the copper…
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