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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1928

2,408 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 121

Drill Hall Fire. Ammunition Explodes. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 12

Shortly before 8 o'clock to-night a firo broke out in the officers' quarters at the Bendigo military drill hall. The flames extended tapidly and the whole building was soon…

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Fire on City of Bath General Average

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 17

Birt and Co., Ltd., have declared a general average of 2½ per cent, on the net arrived wholesale value of the cargo of the City of Bath, which is due here on March 5 from New…

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Unlucky Business Men. Ravages by the Fire Fiend

The Propeller · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 3

The fire fiend seems to follow in the wake of Messrs. Middleton and Tanner, the well-known local timber merchants. When the disastrous fire took place at…

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Attack on Farm House Man with Revolver Fires at the Inmates Brave Act of Police

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 2

CASINO, Thursday.--Hearing the front door being forced open, Mrs. Maxwell, wife of a farmer living on the Kyogle road, about a…

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Barrage at a Fire 30,000 Rounds of Ammunition Explode

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 2

BENDIGO, Thursday.--Thirty thousand rounds of ammunition exploded when the orderly rooms and an office were destroyed by fire…

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Big Ammunition Explosion Drill Hall on Fire Ballarat Aroused Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 6

THIRTY thousand rounds of small ammunition exploded during a fire which destroyed portion of the Bendigo Drill Hall…

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Big Fire at the Timber Mills of Tanner and Middleton, Ltd., Burwood-road, Concord

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 14

A GENERAL VIEW OF THE RUINS YESTERDAY MORNING., THE FIRE FOLLOWED AN EXPLOSION LATE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT…

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Man Terribly Burned Methylated Spirits Blaze Bathurst

The Sun · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 3

Patrick McDonald, laborer, is in the Bathurst District Hospital in a serious condition, suffering from terrible burns McDonald was starting a fire…

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Clothes on Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 18

Mrs. Mary Roy[?]ton, aged 41. of Thornestreet, Edgecliff, was standing near her son yesterday as he was pouring kerosene on a fire, when suddenly the fire blazed up, and…

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Purged by Fire

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 8

TO years after the war, in Paris, a line of sandwich-men passed me-- a line of ragged, unshaven derelicts, patrolling the streets in return for a dubious feed. As he came abreast of me, the last man dropped out, flung his board down, leant…

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New Zealand Fire. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 21

A fire at Te Aroha deatroyed a business block comprising five shops…

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Troubled Samoa 400 Mau Police Arrested Big Fire Loss Suva

The Sun · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 7

A wireless message from Apia, Samoa, to-day, says that 400 Mau police have heel, arrested mid sentenced to six months' Imprisonment…

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Why Germans Lost Captain Fires 5 Shots Pointblank--all Miss Berlin

The Sun · Sunday 4 March 1928 · page 1

Heinrich Langkopp, a German East African farmer, served as a captain during the World War and lost his…

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Cost of Fires at Sea

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 4

The view is held among underwriters that, while much lias been done in recent years to facilitate navigation by the development of wireless, there…

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Clothes Set on Fire. Yass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 12

Whilst working at Burrinjuck John Daller Kofod, aged l8, when up a ladder on a scaffolding passed close to a high tension wire, and the current Jumped across and set…

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Mystery Cave of the Blue Mountains Ranger Reveals 20-year-old Secret--Fire-place Hewn from Stone

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 10

What is the secret of the mystery cave recently discovered by Ranger Robt. Burke, at the head of the Valley of…

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Near Holocausts Two Kiddies Saved Blaze at Woollahra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 6

Two young children narrowly escaped being burned to death, when a fire destroyed a cottage in Cook Lane, Woollahra, last night…

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Fire at Woollahra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 12

Prompt action on the part of two men, who discovered a fire in stables in Grafton-street, Woollahra, used by Sydney Land, last night, prevented the possible destruction of the…

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FIRE! Parramatta Boot Factory

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 2

Parramatta and Granville Fire Brigades were called to a fire on the ground floor of Anschau's boot factory, situated in Phillip-street, Parramatta, at…

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Fire on Liner Maunganui Thrill

The Sun · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 6

The fusing of electric light wires behind the panelling in the lounge caused mild excitement on the Maunganui last night when the liner was…

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