Electric Jug Causes Fire
About 3.30 a.m. on Tuesday Mrs Tipping, of High Street, and family were awakened by a violent knocking at the door. It was found that a constable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires & bushfires, 1938
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Test for Air Fire
United States engineers seek cause of plane fires. Photograph shows petrol being "dumped" into an air stream…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sat on Fire: Patient's Death
MORISSET, Wednesday.--The Coroner (Mr. Staples) today found that George Cusick, a mental patient, had met death by sitting on a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Strong Fire. Love Leaps O'er Difficulties
The love of Jesus is as a strong fire, the more it is knocked the more it kindles if it can do great things it addresseth itself unto great things; if it is able to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lamb Contests Under Fire Breeders Criticise Conditions Types for Crosses
CRITICISM was levelled at certain conditions of the All Australian Export Lamb Competitions at last night's annual meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire in Coal Mine. Section is Sealed Off. CESSNOCK
After fire had been discovered to-day in a tunnel of Cessnock No. 2 colliery, this section of the mine was sealed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →No Fire in Schools Parents Roused Minister In Reply
Indignation is growing among parents and teachers at the Education Department's failure to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Abduction Charge Hangs Fire Heiress's Baby Husband-Count Stays Away LONDON
Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, for whom a warrant of arrest had been issued at Bow-street court, did not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Teachers Seek Fires
THE lack of fires in schools during the winter has resulted in the Teachers' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early Morning Blaze. Wireless Factory Destroyed
Early this morning a factory occupied by the R.C.S. Radio Laboratories, Ltd., in Ivy Street, Redfern, was destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Unaware Of City Fire
THOUSANDS of late city shoppers last night walked post Jack Davies' Pitt Street mercery shop unaware that the premises were on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Life's Work Gone Lost by Fire Damage Of £12,000
When £12,000 worth of damage was done by fire early to-day at the R.C.S. Radio Laboratory,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diesel Fire Engine Tried
Britain's first Diesel-engined firefighter has been delivered to the London Fire Brigade. It is a six-cylinder 100 h.p. Leyland…
Continued on Trove, page 54 →Shivering at Schools £1 For Fuel Is Average Allowance Chimpanzee Has His Central Heating And Parliament's Fires Cost £290
AT THE ZOO, THE CHIMPANZEE HAS CENTRAL HEATING AND THE SNAKES A BRAZIER TO COUNTERACT THE COLD. BUT IN THE STATE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS THE CHILDREN SHIVER BECAUSE THEY…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fighting Abattoirs Fire
YESTERDAY'S FIRE AT HOMEBUSH. It destroyed a storehouse at the State Abattoirs. Above: Fighting the fire from the roof of the burning building…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at State Abattoirs
Fire severely damaged a galvanised iron storeroom yesterday at the State Abattoirs. The caretaker (Mr. L. Osborne) gave…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Abattoirs. Storeroom Destroyed
Black smoke suddenly burst from the roof of a storeroom between the railway line and the main entrance drive to the State Abattoirs at Flemington yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Their First Fire Was All Smoke
EIGHT probationary firemen were taken out yesterday to see what firemen do at a fire. They didn't' see much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cleric Wants "Red-Hot Spiritual Fire"
The Rev. W. J. Grant, of Randwick, wants to see a fire in Sydney -- "a red-hot spiritual fire of religious aspiration, the flames of which will singe the backs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Barge Sinks in River Loaded with Petrol: Fire Danger
A BARGE loaded with 27,000 gallons of petrol sank in Cook's River yesterday. The sinking followed a collision with a concrete pile in Lord Street bridge…
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