Queen Mary. Testing Fire-Proof Paint
With the object of making the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary as fire-proof as possible, fire-resisting paint, which had…
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Late News "Fire-eater's" Daughter Burned London
Mavis Benyon. 9. daughter of Edgar Benyon, the magician "Fire-eater," was fatally burned when her clothes caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire in Sydney Damage Assessed at £100,000
Damage estimated at £100,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed Hardwicke House, York Street, last Saturday morning. Adjoining buildings were also damaged by fire. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Round the Shops It's a Fire Sometimes a Spectacle and Sometimes--
Scream of sirens, smoke, flames, fire-engines, giant hoses, drama at midnight--it's a fire. Crowds gather before the burning…
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Hampered by a lack of water, firemen from the Mortdale brigade had a strenuous time beating out a bush fire in Hardwicke-street, Peakhurst, yesterday afternoon. Several houses…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →To Fight Bushfires
The picture shows a side view of a motor wagon equipped with various kinds of implements for the use of fighting bushfires. It is the invention of the German forester, Tachaom and was exhibited at Berlin the other day. This moving fire station is equipped with ton Silva bushfire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Desperate Fights to Save Homes Bushfire Menace to Property Occupiers Join With Brigadesmen in Suburbs
SIX fences fronting that number of homes, were burned down at Coogee, homes were menaced by fast-travelling flames at Peakhurst…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Caringbah
About midnight last Thursday the Cronulla Fire Brigade was called to an outbreak of fire at the residence of Mrs. [?]. M. [?]ossley in [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Damages Shed
Firemen from Waverley and Paddington were called to extinguish a blaze which severely damaged a weatherboard shed at the rear of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Child's Clothing on Fire
Early on Wednesday morning the baby son, aged three years, of Mr. and Mrs. Yea, of Denison Street, Arneliffe, was playing with a box of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Brief Fire Board Expenditure
A total of £326 was expended by the Board of Fire Commissioners in the Cabra-Vale fire district during the past year. Of this sum, £102 was paid to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Fire Station Merrylands Move
Brought from Fairfield and re-erected ten years ago, Merrylands fire station should be replaced by a better class of building…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cottage Degtroyed by Fire. Forbes
An unoccupied weatherboard cottage at Bedgerabong was destroyed by fire. Nobody had been living in the cottage for more than two months. It had recently been secured by W…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Sun Stop-press Bedroom Fire
A woman who was rescued from a burning bedroom in a house in Arthur-street, Edgecliff, to-day (as reported on page 15), was late this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cabra.'fire District
The expenditure by the Fire Board in respect of Cabra-Vale Fire District during 1934 was £326/18/10. Council contributed £81, the Government £81, and insurance…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →29 Killed In Explosion And Fire MOSCOW
TWENTY-NINE persons were killed and many seriously injured in a fire following an explosion in Moscow's biggest pencil factory…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →English Martyrs' Saintly Crown. Crew Braves Fire's Grim Peril
IN MID-ATLANTIC, a British mine-layer fired a safety line to this Glasgow tanker, Valverda, after its crew had gallantly fought…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Two Racehorses Are Shot Dead Brisbane Stables Sensation Man Draws Gun And Fires. Litigation Brisbane
THE racehorse Ferniemount, the central figure in litigation concerning a complicated transaction, was badly wounded in his box at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Is Rescued From Fire Later Removed To Reception House in Bedroom
RESCUED from her blazing bedroom by a detective in Arthur Street, Edgecliff, yesterday after day afternoon, a married woman,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Countryman's Diary Random Notes From Rescue Party Under Fire in the Wilds
THE story of a one-sided battle, in which intending rescuers of an injured man had to face the fire of the man they were trying to assist, and whom they eventually did assist, was told last…
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