Fire and Accident Underwriters' Rules and Regulations
The Fire and Accident Underwriters' Association of New South Wales draws attention to certain standard Rules and Requirements relating to the undermentioned subjects…
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1,916 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 96
Fire in Hold of Steamer Coal Alight in Yarra Hobart
A fire occurred in the bankers of the steamer Yarra at 7 o'clock to-night. The brigade was summoned, when dense volumes of smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ENGLISH R. L. Team Ends Its Blaze of Success Glittering Record Established On Australian Tour Not Best Ever: N.S. Wales Opposition Weaker Than in Past Statistics of Memorable Tour
Now in New Zealand for a month of football and sight-seeing before setting off across the seas and through the Panama Canal England bound, the Rugby League tourists have with them the supremacy in international football, a little trophy emblematic of the "Ashes," countless souvenirs of their…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Move Waited Four Fires Was It Act Of Burglar?
A dramatic development is expected to-day, as a result of police inquiries into four outbreaks of fire last night in…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Explosion Started It Fire, Theft and Injury NARRABRI
AN amazing sequence of accidents was set in train last night, when, by the light of a hurricane lamp, Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Was Fire Set by a Lunatic? Four Separate Outbreaks in Newtown Home
Thought to be the work of a lunatic, a deliberate attempt was made last night to burn…
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It is a dangerous practice to spread sawdust. on the garage floor to; catch dripping oil or grease. The sawdust becomes oil soaked, and should the car…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Penshurst
A three- roomed weatherboard cottage, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. James Donohue, in Penshurst Street, Penshurst, caught fire on Sunday night, and with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Unemployed Camp
Burnt out last Saturday night, the Dowsett family seem fated for nothing but bad luck. Stanley Dowsett, an un employed man, his wife, and child were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire and Theft in the Wake of Explosion Remarkable Sequence of Accidents at Narrabri Badly Burned Narrabri
AN explosion in a petrol, drum from which a lorry was being refuelled. last night was responsible for a curious sequence…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boiling Tar Causes Fire Newcastle
When a tar-pot boiled over at the Electric Light Co.'s pole depot this afternoon, 100 gallons of tar stored in barrels and two panels of paling…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Widow Dies From Burns Gas Sets Fire To Clothes
HER clothing ablaze from the waist upwards, and calling for help as she staggered about, Mrs, Manning Jennings, 63, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Radio Cranks a Menace Stealing Parts of Fire Alarms Loss Is Heavy
PEOPLE, described by Deputy Chief-Officer Grimmond, of Fire Headquarters, as "wireless maniacs" are blamed for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood and Fires Sweep Chinese City. 200 People Dead. Hongkong, July 31
More than 200 people are dead as the result of floods and fires at Canton. The rapid rise of the river menaced the city on Friday. Reinforced by a torrential…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in Garage
Mr. Carl George Durcher's garage and a motor car, owned by his brother, were badly damaged by fire in Edgecliff-road, Woollahra, last night. Rudolph Edward Durcher was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Destroyed Car in Shed
A fire in a shed on the property of Mr. Durcher, Edgecliff Road, Woolahra, last night, destroyed both the building and a Flat motor car which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →5 Dead in N.Y. Fire New York
AN explosion in the sub-basement of the 41-storied Ritz Towers Hotel in Park-avenue to-day killed five firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burnt Out Narrow Escapes At Clubhouse
Awakened by stifling smoke and the roaring of flames. Mrs. Saxton, housekeeper at the Killara Golf Clubhouse, Gordon-road, had barely time to get…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire in a Golf Clubhouse Midnight Blaze at Killara
The greater portion of Killara Golf Clubhouse was burned down, shortly after midnight, only the front being left standing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Brigades' "Blazes"
The first issue of "Blazes," official organ of the Fire Brigades Association of N.S.W., is a bright and breezy effort which rolls away the…
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