Fire Brigade For Hillston
HILLSTON, Wednesday.-- After conferring with the Fire Commissioners' Board, Hillston Municipal Council has decided to form a fire…
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New Fire Station. Young
At an inspection of the Young Fire Station the president of the Board of Fire Commissioners (Mr. T. J. Smith) announced that a new and bigger station would be built next…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Steel Window Frames Fire Underwriters’ Tests
In tests carried out at the Sydney Technical College, Harris Street, Ultimo, for the Fire Underwriters, Standard Steel window frames 8ft. x 6ft. glazed with 9 panes of wired glass and fanlight…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Beer Puts Out Fire New York
When a troop-train, carrying hundreds of National Guardsmen, crashed into a motor lorry loaded with 15 tons of beer, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Finalising Scheme to Insure Volunteers
A SCHEME to insure volunteer bush fire fighters was suggested by the Fire and Accident Underwriters' Association to the Pastures Protection Boards'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early Morning Blaze
Lidcombe fire brigade received an early call to duty on Saturday, when the alarm was given that a shed in Warestreet was on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hillston Fire Brigade. Hillston
After conferring with members of the Board of Fire Commissioners, the Hillston Municipal Council has decided to form a fire brigade and erect a modern fire station…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Darlinghurst Fire. Man's Hand Burnt
Lionel Desmond Flood, 20, had his right hand burnt early this morning when his bed caught alight at his home in Womerah-avenue, Darlinghurst. It is believed that a cigarette…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Set on Fire" Burwood School Room
The destruction by fire of a portable double classroom, which had been erected only last January at the Burwood Domestic Science School,…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Vandals Fire Alarms Batteries Go False Calls
WHAT Fire Brigade Headquarters described as "an epidemic of dangerous vandalism" has broken out…
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Lockhart, Friday.--A fire bell ringing at 4 a m. to-day, aroused residents. The fire was located in the shop of E. Wilson, bootmaker, and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fire Brigades Beat Teachers
Fire Brigades gave a football lesson to Sydney Teachers' College at University Oval yesterday, winning a Mid-Week Rugby Union competition match by 47 points…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Wounded. Constable Fires After Suspect. NEWCASTLE
Constable A. R. Bonney, of Kurri Kurri, while making investigations at the local Co-operative Store to-night, heard a shout and saw a man running away. He called on him…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Brigade Win Rugby Union, 47-14
Throwing the ball about at random in dazzling three-quarter bursts. Fire Brigades yesterday outclassed Teachers' College in the mid-week Rugby…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Lloyd George's Memoirs-- No. 8. Haig Under Fire PROMOTIONS Division To C.G.S. Corps Cmdr
Lloyd George, in this instalment of his memoirs, warmly criticises two major appointments made by Earl Haig. One was the appointment of a divisional…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bushfire Risks Insurance of Volunteer Fighters
THE insurance of volunteer bushfire fighters, which has been discussed by pasture protection boards at various times in the past two…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Fire in Cottage
A fire broke out in a cottage in Wingroveavenuc, Epping, yesterday afternoon and was blazing fiercely when the firemen arrived. They were able to save little property. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire at Wyong. Picture Theatre Destroyed
The Coronet picture theatre at Wyong was almost totally destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock this morning. The fire opparently originated in the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wyong Fire Theatre Destroyed WYONG
The whistling of a locomotive at 2 o'clock this morning gave the alarm of a fire which in an hour and a half destroyed the Coronet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Gowrie Sees Horse-racing in a New Light American Gives Australia "The Once-Over" What He Thinks of Sydney and Melbourne Stresses Fire Danger of Badly-Arranged Counters in Stores
HAVING just spent a few months giving Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth "the once-over," Mr. W. H. Jones,…
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