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Firemen on land end water last night combated for hours a fire which destroyed the furniture factory of John Burgess Pty., Ltd.. off Tennyson Road, Tennyson, on the foreshores of Glades Bay. Damage approaching £20,000 was done. (See story page 1.)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The police made a dramatic arrest early this morning in a city warehouse. Before a suspect surrendered to the police, who had placed a cordon round the warehouse,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A BALL of flame shot 200 feet into the air after an explosion at a fire which destroyed a large furniture factory in Beach Street, Tennyson, yesterday. The flaming mass rose through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A spectacular fire destroyed a large furniture manufacturing works at Tennyson, on the Parramatta River, last evening, causing damage estimated at £17,500. The entire roof and portions of the walls collapsed. Firemen are shown at work on one of the remaining walls…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An inquest into the fire which caused £1000 damage in the tailor shop of Parramatta Jail on December 24 will be held in camera…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A dozen men, armed with wet bags, yesterday stopped a grass fire from burning past the fence of the home of George Barclay. Medora Street, Cabarita…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SWEEPING rapidly through the shoe factory of Walters and Hunt Pty., Ltd., Collingwood,, tonight, a fierce fire caused damage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Centaurus slighting in Rose Bay yesterday, on her return from New Zealand. Left: The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →WHILE walls, crumbled by the intense heat, kept crashing to the ground, firemen on land and water last night fought for hours a blaze which destroyed a big furniture factory off Tennyson Road, Tennyson, on the foreshores of Glades Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ONE hundred fire fighters are trying to hold a fire between Buxton and Marysville, north-east of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vigorous enforcement of the law and education of the public are urged by the Bushfires Advisory Committee as the most effective…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Menacing homesteads and thousands of acres of valuable forest country, a bushfire burning on a two miles front between Buxton and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police were called after crackers had exploded in the widow of a bookshop in Elizabeth-street, Paddington, to-day, causing a fire which gutted the shop. Percy Walters, who was trapped inside, escaped by climbing a wall. Children rushed to where the window had stood to see the damage. Narrow escapes.--Mr. P.. H. Walters was awakened by exploding crackers when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN explosion of crackers in a shop window in Elizabeth-st., Paddington, to- day caused a fire which did…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven shops weie destroyed in a disastious fire which broke out at Piangil about midnight on Monday. The damage has been estimated at £5000…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →ADELONG, Tuesday.--Four buildings in the centre of the town were destroyed early today in the worst fire in the history of Adelong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The most devastating fire in the history of Adelong occurred early this morning. The blaze originated either in Bell's barber shop, or in A. E. Taylor's men's outfitters shop, both…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Hemmed in by a bush fire in the hills beyond Licola, a number of settlers cut their way to safety along the bed of a creek to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →STATE LOTTERY No. 471, which was drawn last night, will be the means of providing a new motor lorry for Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →METROPOLITAN brigades were kept busy yesterday combating outbreaks of fire in bush and grasslands in many suburbs…
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