Colonial Mutual Fire. Net Profit Nearly Trebled
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 11
Profile nearly three times larger than those of the previous year were earned by the Colonial Mutual Pire Insurance Co., Ltd., for the year ended December 31. The net profit,…
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The Labor Daily · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 1
LITTLE damage was caused by the fire which broke out in No. 4 hold in the Melbourne Steamship Company's luxurious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bomb-throwing Plot. Fire and Panic in Addis Ababa. Eye-witness's Account. (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, March 1
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 11
The correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Djibouti (French Somaliland), gives the first account by an eyewitness of the attempt to assassinate…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Forlorn Hope of Pulling Game Out of Fire Eng. Stalwarts Fail Batsmen Subdued When Hammond Goes O'reilly's Wickets Melbourne
The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 3
ENGLAND was still 420 runs behind Australia's colossal total of 604, when on a third appeal against the light, stumps were drawn in the third day's play of the fifth and deciding Test to-day. Hammond, Leyland and Barnett, her three most prolific…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seeds Germinated by Bush Fires Accelerated Growth In Scorched Areas
The Sun · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 12
Bush fires, fanned by wind, are terrifying, but impressive. Having been burnt out, my memories are vivid and lifelong…
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The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 5
THE top floor offices of the [?]War Ministry have been destroyed by fire…
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The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 5
FIRE broke out in the two-storey wood-turning works of John Cerrui in Brock's Lane. Newtown, last night. The first floor was only…
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The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 5
Merrylands is to have a new fire station. The Board of Fire Commissioners informed Holroyd Council on Tuesday that it had accepted the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 6
Terrible burns were received by Robert Brindley, 18, a machinist, of Moore Parkroad, Paddington, when his clothes caught fire at the works of Bray and Holliday, shop…
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The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 7
TYPICAL Jingoistic speeches were made by the majority of the speakers at a farewell lunch to the Minister for Defence. Sir Archdale…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Destroys Cottage
The Labor Daily · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 8
THE president of the Howard Prison Reform League, Mr. John Boyd Steel, and his wife, narrowly escaped death early yesterday morning when…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 20
TAMWORTH, Thursday. -- Six hundred firemen are in Tamworth for their demonstration. At the Golden Helmet Ball, presentations…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Fire in City Hotel
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 7
Sylvia Taylor, an employee at the Balfour Hotel, on the corner of King and Elizabeth Streets, discovered a fire in one of the bedrooms soon after…
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The Labor Daily · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 7
WITH their speed boat on fire and their arms burned by the flames, a man and a youth plunged into the rain-swept harbor off the Sow and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 12
Two young men dived into the harbour yesterday afternoon when their launch burst into flames near the Sow and Pigs reef. They were picked up by a passing ferry steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Manly Has Imitation Fire
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 17
When bystanders mistook a cloud of steam, lit up by red lights, for smoke and flames, Manly Fire Brigade received several calls last night…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 13
If one had descended the circuitous road that leads from the Comboyne plateau into Wingham a few weeks before Christmas he would have seen an…
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The Sun · Sunday 7 March 1937 · page 3
THICK clouds of black smoke rolled through the gaps in the trees, heralding the approach of a bush fire. Everything was hidden from view…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 6
A house in Wardrop-street, South Murwillumbah, owned by Mr. W. G. Aked and occupled by Mr. Vince Moriarty, was gutted by fire eatly on Friday morning. Mr. Morlarty and…
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The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 1
Stating that he was afraid of a fire breaking out on land adjoining his home, Mr. B. Anderson, of Aeland-street, Guildford, asked Holroyd Council last week to…
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