Improving the Forests Protection Against Fires
To improve the State's forecast, the Government proposes spending [?]60,000, the Minister for Forests, Mr. Vincent, told the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires & bushfires, 1934
1,844 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 93
Playing With Fire
IT is often when girls are most in need of help that those who love them feel helpless. Just when guidance is badly needed, they, resent it most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Fires. Cottages at Granville. "Maliciously Caused."
The Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) yesterday inquired into fires which occurred in two houses at Granville on November 27 and December 9…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coals [?] Fire Short Short Story
IT was one of those cold and blustering days in early autumn when one sets out for a game of golf in tempting sunshine,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire in Shop. Moree
The police are investigating the circumstances surroundings a fire at Mr. R. St, John George's shop. It is understood that traces of kerosene were found in a storeroom wher[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Probing Fire Moree
Moree police are investigating a fire in Mr. R. V. J. George's store following the discovery of traces of kerosene in the store-room, where…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →False Alarms Fire Brigades Are Hoaxed
Fire stations in the Randwick and Kensington districts have received a number of false alarms recently. Last Friday, a 13-year-old boy was…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Fire Brigade Chief. Recommendation Expected Next Week
The Board of Fire Commissioners, at its meeting next Tuesday, will select for the Government's approval, a new chief officer, to fill the position recently vacated by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mysterious Fires Coroner's Verdict
At Parramatta on Tuesday, the district coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) concluded inquiries into two mysterious fires that occurred at Granville—one on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Fire Sprinklers." Erroneous Description
Very few items of general news afford the technical world more amusement than the loose use of terms to be found occasionally in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Hanging Fire" Church-Street Resumption
Mayor Ohlsen on Tuesday informed Parramatta Council that, with Mr. G. C. Gollan, M.L.A., he had interviewed members of the Department of Main…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£1000 DAMAGE. Fire in Tobacconist's Shop. ALBURY
About 6 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in C. W. Bensted's tobacconist and hairdressing shop, Dean[?]street, causing £1000 damage to fittings and stock…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire Brigade Hunts Snake Crowd Holds Up Traffic at Belmore
Hundreds of residents armed with weapons, ranging from spades to pieces of stick, and including one scythe and one rolling pin, held up…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire-blight Embargo Partial Lifting of Ban on New Zealand Fruit
IT was stated in Sydney on Tuesday that in the next issue of the "Commonwealth Garette" a proclamation removing the quarantine restrictions from…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Snake in Crevice Besieged by Crowd. Police and Fire Officer Baffled
There was great excitement at Belmore yesterday when a black snake about [?]ft or 7ft in length, crawled into a crevice 50ft long and 2[?]n wide between two buildings and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fires at Granville Verdict: "Maliciously Caused"
The parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) on Tuesday inquired into fires whlchoccurred in two houses at Granville on November 27 and December…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Chief Retires
Mr. Thomas P.A. Nance, M.B.E., Chief Officer of Fire Brigades, retired this week after 38 years. Mr. Nance is well-known in this district, having been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Fire in Hakodate Tokio
A fire, has broken out in Hakodate in the section of the town that was not affected in the previous configration Seventy buildings have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents of the Week. Girl's Clothing on Fire
When Dorothy Northcote of Connemarra Street, Bexley,attempted to put some paper, under a lighted copper on Sunday the flames gushed out and set…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ill-fated City Hakodate's New Fire TOKIO
The City of Hakodate which was recently partially wiped out by a disastrous fire was again to-day the scene of a devastating outbreak,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →