Resist Fire Woven Asbestos Fabrics LONDON
A new British industry which has made marked progress is the production of woven asbestos fabrics. At a recent exhibition, examples of…
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Killed by Shell. Englishman in Yacht. Rebel Ship's Fire. London, Aug. 10
The second Englishman to lose his life in the Spanish civil war is Captain Rupert Savile, 45, a retired Air Force officer…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Derby Trotting Winner In Mysterious Fire Stables Found Blazing May Never Race Again LEICHHARDT
WINNER of the 1936 N.S.W. Trotting Derby at Harold Park, Terry's Pick was so badly burned in a mysterious fire…
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A fire which broke out among some tobacco at the Kookaburra Cigarette Paper Tubes Co., In McLachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cars Destroyed Blaze At Crow's Nest
Two cars and two show sulkies were destroyed in a fire which razed sheds at the rear of the residences of George Elsley and Walter George…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Destroys Cottage. Wentworth Falls
Yesterday evening a six-roomed weatherboard cottage in The Crescent was destroyed by fire. The cottage was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hook and their four…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Asbestos Fabrics. Protection Against Fire. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Aug. 11
A new British industry, which has made marked progress, is the production of woven asbestos fabrics. At a recent exhibition examples of dyed…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fire Brigade Ball
Nearly 450 dancers attended the annual Cronulla Fire Brigades ball in the Cecil Ballroom, Cronulla, last Saturday night. The function was…
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The Merrylands Volunteer Fire Brigade again bring to the notice of the public that they are sending to Tamworth next year, a team to compete in the N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sutherland Fire Station
In reply to Sutherland Shire Council's request to the Fire Commissioners, that a fire brigade he established at Sutherland, the latter has stated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wild Dash From Asylum Fire Causes Panic
NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Five thousand citizens of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, linked arms and encircled the State Asylum for the Insane when a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Children on Top of Fire Load of Furniture
Bystanders rescued two children who were sitting on top of a load furniture which caught fire on a moving motor lorry in South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fought Bushfire Woy Woy
A number of cottages at Pearl Beach, near Woy Woy would have been razed to the ground during a fierce bushfire last night had it not…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire in Surgery
A fire to-day damaged the surgery of Dr. Eric Goulston. Willoughby road, Willoughby. Spread of the flames was checked…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Brigade for Wyong. Gosford
Wyong is to have a fire brigade, and with the creation of Wyong a fire district. Erina Shire Council decided to request the Board of Fire Commissioners to obtain the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Women Smokers Increase Fire Risks BRISBANE
As the number of women smokers had progressively increased so had the hazards of fire, said a fire inspector in an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Man Burned in Explosion Lorry Caught Fire
Surrounded by flames after a Petrol explosion, Frederick Monte, 27, or Glebe Road, Glebe, Jumped from his stationary motor lorry near his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →50 Girls Trapped By Fire MELBOURNE
ALMOST suffocated by dense volumes of smoke, over 50 employees, mostly girls, were trapped on the first floor of a leather goods…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Factory. Three Men Rescued. MELBOURNE
About 100 employees at the fancy leather goods factory of Creelman Bros., Pty., Ltd., at Abbotsford, in great alarm fied into the street, when a fire threatened to destroy the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Body in Fire 'Varsity Student Uncle's Story Melbourne
THERE was a surprising development at an inquest to-day when an uncle of an 18-year-old University student, who was…
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