Big Blaze at Redfern
SURROUNDED by ruins, firemen extinguish last traces of the fire which broke out in a Redfern store yesterday. (See story, Page 1.)…
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Chickens in Fire
In a fire which occurred this afternoon in a brooder at the rear of a house in King-street, West Mascot, nearly 400 young chickens were…
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GUESTS who regularly attend the winter season musicales at Hopewood House are accustomed to cheery fires in the lounge and drawing-rooms. But last night, for the first musicale of this season, the drop in temperature resulted in a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Old Stables Burnt. Redfern Blaze. Live Wires Fall on Fireman
Live electric power wires carrying 400 volts fell on District Officer F. Eastlake, of Waterloo, yesterday, while he was assisting to fight a fire…
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ONE of Sydney's best-known fire officers died suddenly last night. He was Mr L. R. Stubbs 47, office[?]in-charge of Glebe fire station…
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Hundreds of trailer fire pumps incorporating Austin Seven power units are now in course of manufacture to the order of the British Government…
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GARDEN hoses, buckets, and bathtubs were used by residents to protect their property when a fire destroyed a…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--A fire broke out today in a paralysis after-care clinic in High Street, Footscray. Three nurses rescued two crippled…
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Mr. L. R. Stubbs, station officer at Glebe Fire Station, collapsed and died at the station last night. He had returned to duty yesterday after 18 days' sick leave…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →False Alarm. Fire Engines Appear at Election Meeting. Coogee Campaign
The arrival of two fire engines provided a diversion at an election meeting at Randwick last night, when, notwithstanding the cold, many people stood at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New 730 Feet Wireless Mast at Liverpool — Falls at Harold Park — Fire in Old Redfern Stables
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ABOUT 330 chickens and their five foster-mothers were burned to death at Mascot yesterday. They were the property of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Request for Fire Alarm
The Park Hill Progress Association last week decided to ask the Board of Fire Commissioners to place a fire alarm at the corner of Lisgar-street and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Koalas Perish in Timber Fires. Burning-off Operations. MELBOURNE
The Chief Inspector of Fisheries and Game. Mr. F. C. Lewis, received a report yesterday that about 40 koahs weir inclnerated when a Gippsland land-owner burned off timber to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Day-Old Chicks Roasted In Fire
Three hundred day-old chicks were roasted alive yesterday in a fire at Mr. Leslie Hambly's poultry farm in King Street, Mascot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Mine; Section Sealed Cessnock
A fire is burning in the workings of Cessnock No. 2 colliery. The section has been sealed, and the extent of the outbreak will not be known…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fowls Frightened Goodyear's Fire Hooter Complaint to Council
The fire alarm hooter at Goodyear Rubber Works is causing loss to a number of poultry farmers in Rydalmere, just across the river from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vandals Wreck Catholic Church Signs of Attempt to Set on Fire
WRECKERS worked havoc yesterday in St. John's Catholic Church, Croydon Park…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire
Liverpool Fire Brigade attended a call to Chipping Norton on Wednesday morning of last week, where a bush fire had broken out. The flames were quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Werrington
A fire on Sunday night totally destroyed out-buildings on the grounds of Werrington House, Werrington, consisting of a three-roomed cottage,…
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