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An outbreak of fire occurred early this morning in a block of buildings in the main street of Inglewood A chemist's shop and dwelling, a stationer's shop, a hairdressing and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →During the past three months we have many times been unhappily obliged to chronicle the ravages of the fire fiend in various areas of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NUMEROUS rich farming areas in many parts of Auckland Province and the King Country have been reduced to smoking ruins by the…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →North Bondi had its illuminations on Wednesday night, but unfortunately they were not in accordance with a fireworks programme…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mrs. A. L. Monahon, of Canleyroad, Fairfield, asked Fairfield Counril to have scrub cleared from neighboring property, as there was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While a house was fiercely burning at Church Point yesterday afternoon firemen at Narrabeen, only five miles away, remained idle at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The law against careless use of fire is being enforced in Victoria this summer. At the Fern Tree Gully Police Court last Friday, the caretaker of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A CORRESPONDENT, Mr. David Beddie, of Blayney, writing on the subject of fires and their causes, states that he has noted that no mention was…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Board of Fire Commissioners has replied to Cabra-Vale Council's request for fire-fighting appliances for St. John's Park. It states that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE value of organising in advance was demonstrated when the Buraja bushfire brigade turned out for the first time to fight a fire near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reports indicate that the bushfire danger has lessened considerably, although fires are still burning in some districts. The re-sowing of burned pastures will represent the heaviest…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →BATHURST, Friday.--After exhaustive Inquiries, police have failed to trace any relative of James Reld, 66, who was burned to death while asleep in a tent on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Owing to a fire damn explosion at a depth of 3780 feet in a coalmine at [?] Longpre [?], Belgium, seven miners were seriously injured. Eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For having left a fire unextinguished, a laborer employed by the Public Works Department, near Albury, was lined £5. Departures [?] Arrivals…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →If the car catches fire through a leak from the carburetter and the careless use of a match or cigarette, turn the petrol supply off, switch on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible bushfires, involving great loss of life, swept over paris of Victoria during the week-end, particularly in the Powelltown and Noojoo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Freame writes— Nobody unfamiliar with the country can conceive the devasting result of bush fires, such as those so recently occurring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Severe damage was done by a fire which broke out in a furniture shop in Prince's Highway, Rockdale, early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →McKenzie's furniture shop in the [?] Highway, Rockdale, was badly damaged by [?] early this morning. The fire spread to [?] dence next door, where a front room was [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a [?] started on a farm tenanted by Mr. W. Bat[?], on Nolan's Estate, Quax Quatta, six miles fr[?] Howlong. A large number of district far[?]…
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