Is Our Wheat Being Sold at Fire-sale Price in U.k.? Examination Reveals a Unique World Position Experts Survey Causes of Oversea Price Disparity
The Land · Friday 11 March 1938 · page 4
WHY is Australian wheat selling in London at 36/6 a quarter, while Canadian No. 1 Northern is realising 52/- a quarter, No. 3 43/-, Argentine 40/-, and U.S.A. winter wheat 38/7½?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Launch Blaze at Spit Flames Set Fire To Bath Piles
The Sun · Saturday 12 March 1938 · page 3
In a blazing launch in Middle Harbor, near The Spit, to- day, three people escaped from the flames in a dinghy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aged Woman in Cottage Fire. Escape Through Smoke. Balmain Outbreak
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 March 1938 · page 17
Mrs. S. Sharman, aged 78 years, of Campbell Street, Balmain, groped her way through blinding smoke to safety when her weatherboard cottage caught fire during the absence…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Near Fire Death Woman, 78, Wakes to Find Home Ablaze Nearly Blind But Struggles Out
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 March 1938 · page 2
NEARLY blind, and discharged from hospital only three days ago, Mrs. Margaret Sharman, 78, narrowly escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →STRANGE but TRUE Haye You Ever Seen Water Cm Fire?--Manly Ferry-Boat, Old-Style The Tweed's Twenty Shipwrecks--Treasure In Torres Strait--Snakes That Weigh Twenty Stone. Burning Lake
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 12 March 1938 · page 17
FEW miles from Terang (Vic.) is a burning lake. Not so very…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Brigade Averts Big Blaze
Truth · Sunday 13 March 1938 · page 19
PROMPT action last night by fire lighters from Crow's Nest and North Sydney averted what could have been a disastrous fire…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Fire Menaces Oil Reservoir
The Sun · Sunday 13 March 1938 · page 3
Danger threatened the Commonwealth Oil Refineries, at Berry's Bay, North Sydney, last night, when a fire broke out in the main storeroom,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Damaged by Fire
The Labor Daily · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 10
Thought to have been caused by children, a fire swept through the interior of an unoccupied two-storey building, formerly used as a furniture…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Destroys £300 Cruiser
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 3
Mr. J. Gray, of Spit Road, Mosman, whose 30ft. cruiser was destroyed by fire near The Spit on Saturday, had intended to insure the vessel this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Oil Depot; Brigades' Good Save
The Labor Daily · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 10
Firemen from Crow's Nest, North Sydney and Chatswood on Saturday night prevented what might have been a major conflagration at the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Family's Narrow Escape Launch Destroyed by Fire at the Spit
The Labor Daily · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 5
Narrow escapes from being burned were experienced by Mr. J. Cray, a Mosman estate agent, his wife and 14- years-old son on Saturday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Log Fires and Gay Flowers Canberra
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 10
HUGE log fires added cheeriness and warmth to the reception rooms at the Lodge this afternoon when the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Burgomastership No Sinecure. Dutch Visitor Fought Fires, Caught Criminals. MELBOURNE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 10
Dr. W. Roosmalc-Nepveu, who was burgomaster of the Dutch village of Apeldoorn for nearly 24 years, is a passenger in the steamer Mellskerk, which has arrived In Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£7000 Loss in Showroom Fire Brisbane
The Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 7
Samples of every known timber in the State, which had taken years to collect, catalogue and treat, were destroyed when the Queensland forest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Loss £10,000 at Molong Molong
The Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 15
Shivering in overcoats over pyjamas, 1500 Molong residents' early today watched the worst fire the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Store Burnt. Fire at Molong. Bank Building Threatened. Molong
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 8
Harvey's store, in the main street of Molong[?] was destroyed by fire early this morning, and volunteer firefighters were, at 2 a.m., working to save the Rural Bank building, which is in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fires at Tumbarumba. Coroner's Open Finding. TUMBARUMBA
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 10
The Tumbarumba coroner, Mr. J. L. Thomas, last night held an inquiry into the cause of the fires which destroyed Senator Hardy's sawmill and some logs on March 6…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£10[?]000 Damage by Fire. Molong
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 15
Fire completely destroyed Mr. L. A. Nancarrow's departmental store in the main shopping block early this morning. The loss of building and stock is estimated at £10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →£10,000 Fire at Molong Molong
The Labor Daily · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 8
Damage estimated at over £10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed Nancarrow's store and threatened other buildings to-day. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Timber Collection of Years Lost in Fire
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 2
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Wrought samples of every known timber in the State, representing years of collecting, cataloguing, and treating, were lost in a fire at…
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