5065 Fire Calls Metropolitan Brigades' Record; 985 False Alarms
The 5065 alarms answered by Sydney and suburban Are brigades during 1935 was a record. The highest…
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Newtown Fire
Newtown residents survey some of the damage caused by the fire in a hairdressing college in King-street Newtown, last night. Ten women and…
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Slight damage was done by fire to the home of Leonard Morgan, Verdun St., Bexley, yesterday. Kogarah Brigade made a good save…
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Firemen fighting the blaze which swept through Sweet Bros. store, in King-street, Newtown, late this afternoon. Three firemen were injured by glass…
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The joinery room of a furniture factory occupied by F. E. de Groote, in McLachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay, was destroyed by fire, and the…
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When Mr. Robert Carter, of "Blockburn Station, near the Queensland border, returned after an absence of about 13 hours in Coodooga…
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Finding themselves trapped above a blazing shop in King Street, Newtown, last night, 10 women and girls in the June Russell hairdressing college clambered through a window to an awning, and jumped into the arms of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Newtown. Girls Trapped on First Floor. Assisted to Safety
About 10 girls had to be assisted to safety last night when fire broke out on the ground floor of a building in King-street, Newtown, and pupils of the Russell Hairdressing College…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Martingale Deserved To Lose Flying Hampered Runner-up Jockey Needed No Second Bidding To Fire In Protest Questionnaire Home at Last
"THE race is never over until that weight flag flutters in the breeze." This age old racecourse axiom was proved in the second division of the Ascot Flying on Wednesday when the favorite, Martingale, lost the…
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HUNDREDS of people congregated outside the bakery premises of Booth. Ltd., In George-street, Redfern, at 7.30 last night as dense smoke…
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SWEET BROS.' Store in King-street, Newtown, was gutted yesterday afternoon by a blaze which defied sixty firemen for two hours, and caused…
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In the most disastrous Sydney fire since the huge wool store blaze in September, the big retail store of Sweet Bros. Ltd. in King-street, Newtown, was gutted yesterday afternoon. Stock worth upwards…
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Damage estimated at £75,000 was done by a fire which destroyed most of Sweet Brothers' drapery store in King-street, Newtown, on Saturday afternoon…
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Caused by painters burning off paint with blow-lamps, a fire broke out in a weatherboard cottage in Seventh-avenue, Berala, on Monday Auburn fire brigade…
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Considerable damage was done by a fire which broke out in Holland's drapery store at Eastwood on Saturday night. Eastwood and Ryde fire…
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Facing a wall of fire from 20 feet to 40 feet in height, which swept over 50 acres of thickly-timbered land as fast as a man could walk, firemen and 100 residents, after a…
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The disastrous fire at Sweet Bros., Newtown, practically gutted the building from end to end. The picture shows one of the departments after the salvage corps of the N.S.W. Fire Brigade had cleared up the mess a little. Beautiful materials, dresses, suitings were but a soggy…
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A shed containing timber at the cabinet works of Francis Edward De Groot, in McLachlan-avenue, Rushcutter Bay, caught alight on Filday night. It was badly damaged…
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A fire yesterday destroyed the residence at Mr. R. Carter's Blackbank station. The damage is estimated at £3000. No one was present at the time of the outbreak. Mr…
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Should councils pay contributions to the Board of Fire Commissioners? Willoughby Council recently circulated a request for co-operating in a move for…
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