Fire At" School. Boys at Naremburn Blamed
Boys, are belived to have started a fire which did much damage to the floor under the vestibule at the Naremburn Public School in Willoughby Road yesterday…
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Actor's Death Recalls Sydney Theatre Fire Hollywood
CONWAY TEARLE, the actor, died at St. Vincent's Hospital today of heart disease. He was 60. In 1902 he went to Australia to play the lead in "Ben Hur."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire. Hiking Party's Unhappy Homecoming. KATOOMBA
As the Katoomba Fire Brigade raced along the road to Leura to-day, a party of 10 carefree hikers, comprising five girls and five men, stood by the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cheered Firemen on But walkers didn't know it was their fire LEURA
A PARTY of ten young people, walking in the Leura district, light-heartedly cheered on the fire engine as it passed them today. They arrived back at their…
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"Big fires from little matches grow," is the warning of the Bush Fires Advisory Committee, which has launched an intense publicity…
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Auburn Lidecombe and Parramatta firemen were called when a quantity of rubbish in a yard in Elgin-street, Auburn, caught fire last week. No…
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BRISBANE, Tues.--Deadly poisonous fumes from phosphorus which had caught fire drove 40 men and girls from their workroom at…
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Prompt action on the part of Sergeant J. Swan of the Merrylands police, prevented fire at the Merrylands post office on Monday…
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A fire broke out early this morning in the fartory of the Meadow-Lea Margarine Company, Wellington Street, Newtown. About 2,000 wooden boxes in the yard were…
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LISMORE, Tuesday.--Awakened by the screams of their nine-year-old daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Felsch, of South Lismore, found their house ablaze early…
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A MAN, his wife, and four young children narrowly escaped death when fire gutted their five-roomed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Scouts' Association. Jamboree Camp Fire Ball
A ball in aid of the general funds of the association and the Scout Club will be held tonight at David Jones, Ltd., ballroom, at which the Governmer, Lord Wakehurst, and Lady…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Old Man's Fatal Fall Into Fire. Oberon
Richard Rausch, aged 72, who had been in indifferent health and lived in a one-roomed house at the rear of the presbytery, died yesterday as the result of falling into the fire…
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Clambering over 20 trucks on a fast-moving train near Inglewood early to-day, Jack Scott, a well- known roughrider, drew the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lismore Fire. Draper's Statement. Outbreaks at Other Shops. LISMORE
At the inquiry to-day into the fire which took place on September 11 at Mr. George Malouf's drapery shop in Lismore, Malouf admitted that there…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Big Bushfires. Mill and Houses Burnt in Victoria. MELBOURNE
A timber mill, a boarding-house, two homes, and several workmen's huts were destroyed by bushfires to-day at Moc, Kalorama, Carrajung and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fire Alarm at Store
Firemen, who had brought several engines, dashed into Farmer's store in Market-street to-day, from which they had received an automatic…
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BRISBANE, Wed. -- His clothes alight, Vincent Phillips, about 30, a, boarder, had to leap from the balcony of a blazing boarding-house…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Home Destroyed Fire at Werrington No Insurance
A SIX-ROOM weatherboard cottage at Werrington, owned and occupicd by Mr and Mrs J. A. Rankin, was completely destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy, 16, Saves Men, Horses From Fire GOONDIWINDI
COURAGEOUS action by Jack Scott, 16, saved two men and a truckload of horses from death. Scott was a passenger on a mixed train for Brisbane…
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