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There has been a recrudescence of strikes at the sugar mills. The rioters moved to the southern districts, setting fire to caneflelds and Indian huts and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fires which broke out on premises at Glebe, on August 14, were found by the Acting-City Coroner (Mr. Balmain) to-day, to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--While firemen fought a fire on the ground floor of the Causeway, off Little Collins Street, last night, couples at a dancing academy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire in a three-storey house in Georgina Street, Newtown, on Saturday night, destroyed a quantity of furniture, which was stored in the basement…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →TWO firemen were overcome by fumes from a broken gas pipe while fighting a fire in the basement of a house in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WITH the right side of his head, neck and shoulder burned, Edward Samuel Mc. Innes, 71, was found dead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SEVEN HUNDRED Chinese, mostly women and children, were killed, and 1200 were wounded, when 20 Japanese bombing planes raided yesterday the densely populated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scenes of horror were witnessed at Nantao, which adjoins the French Concession at Shanghai, when 12 Japanese army planes carried out an air raid there on Saturday, and Japanese Artillery bombarded the area again to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Standards Association of Australia announces the publication of new Australian standard specifications Nos. A.31 and A.32 for fire extinguishers. Acid-alkali and foam types…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Four separate fires were burning in a house in Glebe on August 14 when he entered the building to see if anyone was still inside, said George Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Acting City Coroner (Mr. Balmain) yesterday found that the fire which had destroyed the home of James William Campbell, in Glebe Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →TWO Air Force Officers were killed this afternoon when a Hawker Demon plane crashed at Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers, armed with clubs and chotguns, hurried to the aid of the police when 300 boys at a reformatory school near Montpellier set fire to the buildings and attempted…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The expansion of the use of gas for room warming is evidenced by figures announced by the National Gas Association of Australia which show that during the year 1936 the sales of gas fires…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PLAYING in his last first-class match for his county. Middlesex, to-day E. ("Patsy") Hendren scored a changeless 103 in 140 minutes. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the past fortnight about 12 fire-call boxes around Sydney have been rendered ineffective by the theft from them of telephone equipment. The deputy chief officer of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →VERBAL invitations to dance gave way to a more modern [?]thod at the Postal Services ball held at David Jones' last night, when guests…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two officers of the Royal Australian Air Force from Laverton weie killed this afternoon when a Hawker Demon machine, in which they were flyine,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mr. W. Trinick, who is a vice-president of the Rangers' League, in a letter to the "Herald," deplores the "extraordinary lack of interest by the Ministers in the administration…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Several street fire-alarm telephones have been stolen in North Sydney, although the police do not know what use the instruments could be to the…
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