Big Saving in Gas Fires What Figures Tell
In connection with the housing schemes of the British Government it has bean estimated that £30 a house can be saved by the…
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2,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 104
General News North Coast Fire
DORRIGO.-- Another destructive fire occurred when Mr. Nash's fine Empire Theatre and its elaborate contents were burnt. The hall was estimated to be…
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Newly invented, the Sentinel automatic fire alarm is another step forward in fire detection and fire fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Brigades Board Mr. T. J. Smith As Chairman
A prominent member of the A.L P. movement, Mr. Thomas Januarius Smith, M.L.C., is to be the new chairman of the New South Wales Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Damage £20,000 Outbreak at Bacon Factory MELBOURNE
It is estimated that the damage at last night's fire at the Co-operative Bacon Curing Co., at Dandenong, amounts to £20,000, including £10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Set Fire to Car Cleaned Boots; Ate Oranges Youth Shopbreakers Melbourne
Youths who broke into the motor warehouse of F. McOwen and Co., in Elizabeth-street, on, Saturday night, poured petrol over a Morris Oxford…
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A voluntary fireman, named P. C. Happm. who lives at Dee Why was seriously burned to-day when portion of the kitchen of his home caught fire…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners have notified the Narrandora Municipal Council that board had instated that full plans a…
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[?] man and woman narrowly escaped suffocation when their bed took fire in a residential in Crown-street, city, last night. Other inmates of the house noticed smoke…
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At to-day's meeting of the Executive Council Mr. T. J. Smith, M.L.C., was appointed chairman of the Fire Brigades Board, and Ald. Holdsworth…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Destructive Fire. Bacon Curing Factory. Melbourne
A fire was discovered early last night in one of the buildings of the Gippsland Cooperative Bacon Curing Company, in Brightoll-road, Dandenong…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Art Gallery. £3000 Grant Urged. Danger of Fire
Representations were made to the Minster for Education (Mr. Mutch) yesterday on behalf of the trustees of the National Art Gallery, urging that the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →'Hardest Harbor Fight' Fire Chief's Opinion Stewardesses' Escapes
"We have had some hard fire fights on the harbor," remarked Chief Officer Jackson, "but the outbreak this morning was. so far as I can…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Life Lost in Mysterious Fire Aboard the Steamer Canberra Suffocating Smoke Awakens Those Aboard Where the Blaze Originated Great Heroism of Steward to Save Others Luxurious Cabins Now Charcoal Tons of Water Poured Into Ship
A DISASTROUS FIRE, involving the loss of a life and considerable damage, occurred aboard the steamer Canberra early this morning. The vessel had been held up through trouble with the seamen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Miners' Bath at the Kitchen Fire Old Country Custom Lithgow
Mr. D. Owen, health inspector, giving evidence before the Federal Health Commission at Llthgow, said that at the State Coal Mine accommodation…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"The Ship's on Fire" Crew of Canberra Rush to Safety Stewardesses Tell Story
The stewardesses told thrilling stories of their awakening at the cry of fire on the Canberra this morning. Some of them had to fight their way through the fumes and flame to the open air, and there were many, narrow escapes…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ship on Fire in Dead Of, Night Passengers and Crew. Trapped in Liner Canberra
Shortly before 3 o'clock this morning a fire broke out on the Howard Smith passenger steamer Canberra, berthed at the King…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →From Page 1 the Fire How Hero Died Fighting the Outbreak a Scene of Chaos
CRAYTHORNE, a "News" man was told, died in an heroic attempt to save others on the ship. When the alarm was given…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mystery Fire Guts Liner Canberra Amidships During Night Inferno of Flame Gallant Young Steward Burnt to Death Canberra Afire at Wharf Mysterious Outbreak While All Were Asleep
Overcome by fumes in an inferno of smoke and flame, which he had braved again and again to save others, Reginald Craythorne lost his own life in the fire which partially gutted the Interstate liner Canberra as she lay at Erskine- street wharf early this morning…
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AT HER BERTH AT THE HOWARD SMITH COMPANY'S WHARF, FOOT OF KING-STREET. PORTION OF THE DAMAGED CANBERRA…
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