Fire in Coal Silo at Cockle Creek Three Fighters Overcome by Fumes in Battle
NEWCASTLE, Monday. -- Three firemen were overcome by fumes while fighting a fire in a coal silo at Cockle Creek to-night, but were…
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Barellan Homestead Burnt Out. Damage Estimated at £15,000
Barellan Homestead, one of the oldest and best-known properties in the Riverina district, was destroyed by fire last "Thursday, with most of its contents. Portions…
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THE chief cause of fire in the nome is carelessness. A little forethought would prevent scores of outbreaks. Never put hot ashes in a wooden box…
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The latest method of preventing the spreading of fire is the use of asbestos curtains, which can be fitted to stairways of home or companion-ways of…
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Waverley Council last night, on the motion of Ald. Berkeley, nominated the Mayor, Ald. Nott, as a candidate for election to the Board of Fire Commissioners, to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Mystery Slipper Company Fire
JOSEPH GOLDBERG, managing director of Australian Slippers Ltd., whose factory in Phillip-street, Waterloo, was burnt out on December 21, told the Coroner to-day that he had no idea how the fire started…
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Thieves disturbed in the home of Mr. William Freeman, of Glenview Street, Greenwich, last night, piled bedding and other goods into a heap…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →English Wool Trade. Fire-damaged Stocks. (From Our Special Correspondent.) By Air Mail, BRADFORD, Dec. 20
Some of the wool damaged in the fire in a Sydney store at the beginning of the selling season has been received by Bradford top-makers, who specialise in working up defective…
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Ten calls were received by Wentworthville Fire Brigade during 1935—two more than the previous year. The brigade travelled 200 miles during…
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Balmain Council has decided to nominate Ald. C. Stapleton as a candidate for the vacancy on the Board of Fire Commissioners, caused…
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Balmain Council has decided to nominate Alderman C. Stapleton as a candidate for the vacancy on the Board of Fire Commissioners, caused by the resignation of Mr. G. J. Baker…
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A meeting of the Tenterfield [?] Council considered a letter from the Board of Fire Commissioners showing the total estimated expenditure for the fire district of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Factory Fire Inquiry "Rafferty Smoking Rules"
"I think the rules as to smoking were Rafferty rules" the City Coroner, Mr. Oram, was told by Joseph Goldberg, managing director of the…
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Mr. C. D. A. Richardson has been appointed Chief Officer of Fire Brigades, in succession to Mr. G. Grimmond…
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At noon on Friday last a grass fire broke out on the railway embankment adjacet to the premises of the Atlantic Oil Company. The alarm was quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waterloo Fire. Australian Slippers, Ltd. Evidence at Inquest
The City Coroner (Mr. Oram) yesterday began an inquiry into the cause of the fire which destroyed the factory of Australian Slippers, Ltd., in Phillip-street, Waterloo, on December…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in Coal Story Of Paringa MELBOURNE
A theory that the missing steamer Paringa might have blown up or that fire may have caused her destruction, has been advanced by a resident of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Western District News He Got the Go-getters Blacktown Fire Board Candidate Councillor Francis's Record
A candidate for the position of representative of the metropolitan and suburban councils on the Board of Fire Commissioners, rendered…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Red-cliff experienced a torrential downpour this afternoon. In half an hour 105 points were recorded…
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On the 5th instant, a private dwelling in General Holme's Drive, Brighton-le-Sands, caught fire. Kogarah Fire Brigade attended and a hydrant was…
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