£5000 Fire Damage At Service Station
A fire caused damage estimated at £5000 at Dalgety's Service Station, McElhone Street, Woolloomooloo, yesterday…
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Fire Alarm Test for Boy Scouts
A practical demonstration of their prowess in dealing with an emergency was given by members of the 6th Parramatta (All Saints') Boy Scout Troop…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Voter's Car on Fire in Ulster London
Polling day in Ulster was quiet until night time, when a Belfast woman, who was about to take voters to a polling booth, was held up by…
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Two motor cars were destroyed and 20 others were damaged by fire which broke out on the ground floor of the motor service and used car…
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The City Coroner, Mr. Oram, yesterday committed Elizabeth Mary Carter, 34, for trial on a charge of setting fire to the house of Desmond George…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Ways Under Fire London
Police methods are under fire. Critics have seized on the award of damages to a man arrested for "stealing" his own overcoat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reels of Film in Big Blaze Brilliant Save By Brigades In Melbourne. MELBOURNE
FED by hundreds of reels of film, Which' exploded as they caught alight a fierce lire which swept through a room tenanted by Film…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Provided Problem Difficulty in Rate Collection
All rate records having been destroyed in a fire at the Eastwood Town Hall last year, the council is experiencing difficulty in assessing…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Rats, Matches and the Danger of Fire to the Editor of "The Land."
Sir,—Recently a statement appeared in the daily press to the effect that evidence in America now showed that rats were not responsible for the outbreak of fire because…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fires at Blackheath. Blackheath
Five fires have curred in Black[?]n the last few days: The first occurred at a guest house owned by the Misses Page and D[?] The fire damaged the kitchen and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lugger on Fire. Three-mile Swim by Crew. Monsoonal Storm. Darwin
Clinging to a flat-bottomed dinghy, Stirling Eshelby, of Point Charles, with three aborigines and a half-caste, had a hazardous three-mile swim when they…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Italian Sailors Stop Pier Fires
MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Shortly after the arrival of the Italian cruiser, Raimondo at Montecuccoll, at Prince's Pier, oPrt Melbourne,…
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Doctors are fighting to save the sight of two men thrown from this motor-cycle as it burst into flames. The cycle crushed head-on into a car at Mount Druitt…
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NAIROBI, Saturday.--While Mr. Cherry Kearton, author and explorer, his wife and two companions were photographing Hell's Gate Canyon,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Stop Press Destroyed by Fire
The weatherboard residence of Mrs. Ellen Foley, In Liverpool-road, Croydon, was destroyed by fire last night…
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ROY DAY, aged 14, and William Westphalen, 13, have just been before the Juvenile Court in New York for causing 100 fires in three…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Fire Damages Cottage
While the inmates were absent, fire broke out in the home of Mrs. Ellen Foley, in Liverpool Road, Croydon, on Saturday night, and several weatherboard rooms at the rear…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Praise for Brigade Open Finding On City Fire
Recording an open finding to-day at the inquiry into the fire which practically gutted the whole premises of P[?]zzey Pty., Ltd., Wilmot-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Forty Affected by Copra Fumes £4000 Damage In Fire At Alexandria
Twenty firemen and as many workmen to-day were affected by smoke and fumes when about £4000 worth of copra burst into flames at Alexandria. Coughing and spluttering for air, they repeatedly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kicked His Way Out of Plane Aircraftsman Says Clothes Were On Fire Fatal Crash Cootamundra
THE Air Force was in no way responsible for the death of Pilot-Officer Jack Frederick Fallon, 21, who was killed when a R.A.A.,…
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