Scots' Day Great Assembly Clans Meet Showground Blaze of Color
Wr a hunder' pipers an' forty drums They matched on New Year Day. . . There may or may not have been a hundred pipers, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires & bushfires, 1929
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Fire at Grace Bros
Considerable water damage was caused to stock in Grace [?] Broadway, into last night, when [?] broke out in the blind-making…
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A fire, which broke out in the hardware department of Grace Brothers, Ltd., Baystreet, city, about 10.30 o'clock last night, was quickly extinguished by the sprinklers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Services. Record Year. 4426 Alarms of Fire in Metropolis
In the statistics of the Board of Fire Commissioners for the year 1928 there are a num ber of features that give cause for wonder. One is surprised, for instance, to read that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade Chief. Retired at Midnight
At midnight last night Mr. F. Jackson handed over his authority as chief officer of the New South Wales Fire Brigades to his successor and former assistant (Mr. T…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Wireless Station. Melbourne
After an extensive overhaul of the equipment at the Ballan wireless station, which was damaged in the fire in the engineroom on Friday afternoon, it has been found that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire. Wentworth Falls
Between midnight and one o'clock on Saturday morning an unoccupied furnished cottage in Henderson-road suddenly burst into flames and was destroyed. The cottage was owned…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Year's Fires. Board's Report Record Number of Calls. Brigades' Good Work
TO extinguish fires during 1928 the brigades poured out approximately ten million gallons of water--about ten days' supply…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold in Ruins Sovereigns Escape Fire Grafton
Many works of art, belonging to Mrs. D. Murphy, wife of the proprietor and licensee, were destroyed in the fire which reduced the two-storied Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Truck's Driverless Dash-newcastle Mystery Tragedy New Fire Chief To-day
GIANT CRANE whisks up a British-built engine to be shipped to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Many Calls Were False Alarms 1928 Was Record Year for Fire Brigades
"Ring out the false, ring in the true!" will be the firemen's plea for 1929. False alarms numbered almost 20…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Homes Wiped Out Bush Fire Sweeps Through Barrallier Desperate Fight
BARRALLIER, Tuesday.--A terrible bush fire is sweeping the district, on a 12-mile front; homes have been gutted, and farmers and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early Morning Fire Blaze in Oxford St
Shortly after 1 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the top door of the Anglo-American Chambers, a four-storey building situated at No. 11…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Picture Theatre Blaze Crow's Nest Outbreak Patrons Unaware
Unaware that a reel of film had caught fire, and the show was in danger of being burnt down, patrons of the Queen's Theatre, Lane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mystery Fire Police Investigate
So far the police have not cleared up all the facts surrounding an outbreak of fire at 1 a.m. to-day in the Anglo-American Chambers,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Suspicious Fire. Three Separate Outbreaks
Three distinct outbreaks of fire were discovered on the fourth floor of the AngloAmerican Buildings, 9-11 Oxford-street, city, early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Was Building Set Alight? Three Distinct Fires in City Outbreak
Police are convinced that a fire which swept through portion of Anglo-American Chambers, 9 and 11 Oxford Street,, city, early this morning was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Earlwood Four Buildings Destroyed
A fire at the corner of Collingwood Avenue and Homer Street, Earlwood, at 3 o'clock, this morning destroyed a garage, a dance hall a boot shop, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion. Shop Wrecked. Fire at Earlwood
A violent explosion occurred in a bootshop in front of the Earlwood Picture Theatre, Homer-street, Earlwood, about 3 o'clock this morning. The shop was wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire in Operating Box 300 Feet of Film Ablaze
Just as the audience in the Queen's Theatre in Lane Cove Road, Crow's Nest, was beginning to rock with laughter at the film, "Plastered in…
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