Blue Mountain Bushfire Radio Station And Homes Menaced KATOOMBA
A big bushfire is raging at Wentworth Falls, where 2KA transmitting station and several cottages are seriously menaced…
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Bush Fires on Mountains. Katoomba
During the past four days three outbreaks of bush fires in the Katoomba-Wentworth Falls district have occurred. On Sunday about 45 acres of bushland were burnt near…
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Forty firemen and residents fought a bush fire which threatened two homes, shortly after noon today…
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KATOOMBA, Monday.--A small but fierce bushfire seriously threatened several houses east of Wentworth Falls this afternoon…
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Thieves are believed to have set fire to a lock-up shop in Wentworth Avenue, Toongabbie, early yesterday. Only slight damage was done before firemen put the…
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WHILE occupants of other apartments rushed terrified into the street two young men slept on in a burning flat at Bondi early this…
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Thieves are blamed for a fire which destroyed the lock-up grocery shop of Mr. William McClure, in Wentworth Avenue, Tooncabbie, at 4 a.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire in Newspaper Office. Extensive Damage. BALLINA
In the early hours of yesterday morning fire gutted the premises of the "North Coast Beacon" newspaper, causing extensive damage to printing, machinery and paper stocks…
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The City Coroner (Mr. Oram) today returned an open finding at the inquiry into a fire which gutted the factory premises of the Newtown…
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The fire which destroyed half of the town of Himimachi, killing 100 people and destroying the homes of 7000, was caused by yesterday's typhoon…
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Raging for seven hours from midnight, a fire destroyed 1500 buildings in Himinachi, in the prefecture of Toyama…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Fire Upon Planes Over Border LONDON
FRENCH anti-aircraft batteries at Cape Cerbere fired on five German Junkers planes attached to the Spanish rebel air force. The planes were flying over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Destroys Half of Town. 7,000 Homeless in Japan. TOKYO, Sept. 6
A hundred people were killed or injured and 7,000 were rendered homeless by a fire which destroyed half the town of Himamachi…
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THE opinion that a fire which destroyed the premises of New-town Dyers and Bleachers, in Trasalgar St. Newtown, on August 12…
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The late Sir Edgeworth David, famous geologist, estimated that a mountain at Wingen, N.S.W., has…
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Board of Fire Commissioners wrote forwarding description of the proposed new boundaries of the Sutherland Fire District to include Como and small…
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FIRED at by a watchman at Bellevue Hill late last night, a suspect is believed to have been…
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George Thomas, a night watchman employed at Bellevue Hill, disturbed a man in the grounds of Mr. T. A. Field's home in Victoria Road about midnight…
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A woolshed on a farm owned by W. Firman, of Sydney, and tenanted by George Bryce, near Moombooldool, was destroyed by fire last night…
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Flames from an unoccupied weatherboard house which caught fire in Albion Lane, Surry Hills, late last night, threatened the Children's Court. About 25 boys were about to be taken…
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