Bullets in City Police Fire Shots at Suspect Chased Vainly
Hospital and ambulance stations have been warned to report immediately to the police should a man call for…
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Grass Fires Effective Organisation of Local Brigades in Many Country Centres Valuable Crops Saved in the Riverina
Water tanks and sprinkler attachments on motor trucks figure prominently in the equipment of bush fire brigades these days. The truck gives…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Devastating Townsville Fire Damage Is £50,000 Huge Crowd Sees Blaze Women Faint Townsville
FOURTEEN - THOUSAND people witnessed the most devastating fire in the history of Townsville, last night, when a…
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"L.M.O.—We regret the delay in answering your question concerning the dimensions for leather fire-beaters. From enquiries made, it appears that the size most favored…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fire Alarm Refused
The Board of Fire Commissioners had declined to erect a fire alarm at corner of Rawson-road and Polding-street, as asked for by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grass Fires Lightning Causes Outbreak Near Hay
A number of grass fires were started in the Hay district by lightning last week, and though some of them were extinguished by rain, others…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →To Fight Fires, Southern Landowners Unite in Organising Brigades
OTHER parts of the State might well follow the example of farmers and graziers in the Riverina and on the Monaro and develop poioerful bush-fire fighting forces by co-ordinating the activities of brigades in their districts. The Monaro Fire Fighters' Association, at a meeting in Cooma, decided, to form seventeen branches…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TOWNSVILLE. Disastrous Fire. BRISBANE
One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Townsville occurred at 10.45 to-night, and was still raging at midnight. By that time the premises of McKimmon…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Equipment Precaution Against Bush Outbreaks
The near approach of the hot summer weather will suggest to landowners the wisdom of making some provision to meet the contingency of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Good Work Fire Endangered Timber Yard
Flames spread alarmingly this morning and endangered a timber-yard, when a fire occurred in a house in Glebe-road, Glebe…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Threat Anonymous Letters To Wheat Men
WHEAT-GROWERS around Wirringa have lately been receiving mysterious warnings that a plot has been laid to set fire to grass and crops…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Blaze in Launch at Long Reef Fishermen Batter Hole in the Bottom of Craft Hard Fight
IN a desperate attempt to extinguish the blaze that had broken out on their launch when three miles off Long Reef…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Party Under The Fire of the Enemy
The 12th Plenary Session of the Communist International! analyses the extreme state of tension that exists internationally. The Plenum declared: “We are now in the transitional period to a new round of wars and revolutions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire Brigade. Young
Bushfire brigades are reorganising for the summer, and overhauling fire-fighting equipment and material. At the annual meeting of the Young Bushfire Brigade, it was decided…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Watchman Fires Three Shots. Liverpool
An intruder in the home of the Missel Hoskins in Northumberland-street, about 2 a.m. was disturbed when he was evidently enjoying a meal in the kitchen.: A broken…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Miners Beat Fire
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday[?] Scorched by fierce heat, and without sleep for 48 hours, miners at Hikurangi coal mine conquered the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Morts Dock
Slight damage was done by a fire which broke out at Mort's Dock early yesterday morning. Watchman Henry Keefe found the fire blazing under a lathe, and summoned brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Wider & Wider Into the Fire
After surreptitiously obtaining about 500 opossum skins recently in the scrub near a township on the Murray, a trapper got wind of the presence of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fire in Hayshed. Tamworth
The wool and hay shed on the Glenmore (Kootingal) property of Mr. C. H. Peters was destroyed by fire. Eight tons of hay was also destroyed. The damage is estimated at £600…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Timber-yards Are Endangered by Fire
Until firemen got the flames under control, a fire which broke out in a house in Glebb Road, Glebe, yesterday, threatened Hardy Brothers'…
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