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Fires & bushfires, 1928

2,408 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 121

Of Social Interest Camp Fire Ball

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 August 1928 · page 26

THE grand pageant at the Camp Fire Ball, to be held at the Ambassadors on Friday, will commence at 9 o'clock. The glow worm ballet danced…

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Plane Crashes and Fires Totally Destroyed Passenger Badly Hurt Coonabarabran

The Labor Daily · Thursday 23 August 1928 · page 1

Crashing on the local racecourse to-day, a plane burst into flames, and was completely destroyed. A passenger, James Sinclair, a local…

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Camp Fire Ball

Evening News · Friday 24 August 1928 · page 16

Miss Alice Finch, member of the committee of the Camp Fire Bolt, to be held at the Ambassadors to-night in aid of the Rover…

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Theodore Fires a Few Shots Labor Not "Red," He Says

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 August 1928 · page 4

As campaign director of the Labor Party, Mr. Theodore, M.H.R., had a chance to get in a few shots last night, when, by invitation, he…

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Guildford Fire Station To Be Opened on

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 24 August 1928 · page 7

Guildford's new fire station, which is built according to modern plans, and is quite up-to-date was unofficially taken possession of by the local brigade on…

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Horderns' Fire How Firm Kept Big Business on in Face of Disaster

Evening News · Friday 24 August 1928 · page 16

OF the great fires which have occurred in Sydney, none was more memorable than that an A[?]bony Hordern's on Wednesday, July 10, 1901, when half a…

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Passengers Leave--Ship Is Burnt Out HONGKONG

The Sun · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 1

The British passenger steamer Sui-Tai from Macao took fire half an hour after the passengers, some hundreds, had disembarked. The…

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For Women. Camp Fire Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 12

Camp fires that appeared miraculously out of the impenetrable dark, nimble figures that danced a "glow-worm" ballet, disembodied voices that sang strange war cries—these were…

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On Fire Port Napier Wellington

The Sun · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 8

The steamer Port Napier, en route to New Zealand, is reported to be making for Pago Pago, on fire. Tho wireless operator said the…

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Fire at Dee Why House Destroyed

The Sun · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 7

An unoccupied furnished cottage in Thew-parade. Dee Why owned by William J. Barnett, of Malcolm-street, Narrabeon, was with the contents…

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Camp Fires Glowed on Tables All Nations Represented at Scout Ball

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 14

SEVENTEEN nations which have adopted the Boy Scout idea were represented last night at the Camp Fire Ball held at the Ambassadors for the…

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For Women Social Events. of Importance Scouts' Camp Fire Ambassadors Dance Pageant of Nations

Evening News · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 8

A BREATH of the great outdoors was [?]ought to the Ambassadors last night when the Rover Boy Scouts transference their camp are to the…

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Fire at Sea on Port Napier Race for Pago Pago Wellington, N.Z.

Evening News · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 6

A WIRELESS message from Pago Pago reports that a fire has broken out on the steamer Port Napier, bound for New Zealand…

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New Business Block for City Corner On Site of Big Fire Cause of Delay

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 August 1928 · page 3

A modern block of business premises and offices is to be erected on the corner of Elizabeth and Goulburn streets by Estates, Limited, of…

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Port Napier Blaze Pago Pago

The Sun · Monday 27 August 1928 · page 13

The fire which broke out on Saturday morning aboard the C. and D. liner Port Napier while the vessel was near Samoa on hor way for…

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Port Napier. Fire on Board. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 August 1928 · page 12

Advices were received by the Postal officials at the week-end that the steamer Port Napier, bound from London to New Zealand ports, had reported an outbreak of fire on board. It…

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12 Hours' Fight for Rich Cargo Port Napier Fire Suva

Evening News · Monday 27 August 1928 · page 1

A FIRE which was discovered in No[?] hold of the Port N[?] caused damage to cargo. The fire was [?] a 12 hours…

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Fire at Alexandria

Evening News · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 6

When in are broke out at the premiers of the Austral Broaze Co., Ltd, O'Rriroday-street, Alexandra, about 300 gallons of oil was destroyed. Slight damage…

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Dress Caught Fire City Woman's Ordeal

Evening News · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 14

WHEN Mrs. Helen Heffernam, 40, of Irving-st., City, was lighting a fuel stove at her home to-day her dress caught fire She attempted to extinguish the…

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Fire Extinguished. On Port Napier. Ammonia Tanks Explode. Suva

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 11

The correspondent of the "Fiji Times" at page Page states that the fire on the Port Napier started at 7 a.m. on Friday, in number 4 hold, the cause being unknown…

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