To-day's Interview 30 Years In Line Of Fire
YESTERDAY was one of the busiest days in the experience of District Fire Officer E. Griffiths…
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Women's News Cooling Off After Fire-Fighting Lord Mayor to the Rescue
The Sunday rest of the Lord Mayor (Alderman S. S. Crick) was disturbed yesterday when news came that the home of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Meat Works After Threat. N.Z. Outbreak Investigated. AUCKLAND
Sabotage may have been responsible for a fire, which caused severe damage to a large freezing works, near Hastings, owned by Nelson's (N.Z.), Ltd…
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Bush and grass fires raged in almost every Sydney suburb yesterday and the fire brigade answered 160 calls. The fires estended from Palm Beach on the coast to Springwood on…
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One of several cars which were destroyed by a fierce bushfire which swept across the Prince's Highway yesterday…
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THREE hundred fire-fighters worked under inferno-like conditions yesterday to stop a bushfire with a 15-mile front from sweeping on to Moss…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Youth Killed As Bushfire Sweeps Bulli Pass Road Lorry Hits Blazing Tree, All Traffic Diverted To Coast Route
In blinding smoke from bushfires, a youth was killed on the Prince's Highway, three miles from Bulli Pass yesterday when the motor-cycle on which he was riding pillion collided with a motor-lorry…
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BUSH ABLAZE at Cherry Hill, six miles from Sutton Forest, yesterday. On Sunday it was feared that the fires might spread to the State pine forest. LEFT: Sir Norman Kater, Moss Vale grazier, and Mr. Justice Maxwell, of the Supreme Court, a visitor to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lit Fires in Refuse Baskets
Garnet Bastian (27), bootmaker, was fined £1, by Mr. Arnold, S.M., at the Central Police Court to-day, for having behaved in an offensive…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires Tax Sydney's Water Supply
Sydney's water consumption on Saturday is expected to exceed the record of 218 million gallons, established last Thursday, the distribution engineer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£10,000 Blaze Began in Hotel Brisbane
Fire destroyed the Commercial Hotel and eight shops in Nanango last night, causing about £10,000 damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Sugar Elevator
Fire broke out at 3 a.m. to-day in an elevator at the Colonial Sugar Refinery's works, Pyrmont. Strenuous efforts by firemen prevented the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →50-50 Try "Blitzkrieg" against bushfires with squadrons of aeroplanes Letterettes In Fifty Words Fight Fires From Air
Again we have bushfires destroying thousands of acres of country. Why don't we tackle this problem scientifically and have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attempt to Fire Wool Store
LAUNCESTON, Monday.-- An attempt to set alight to a store on inspection Head Wharf, containing 3000 bales, of wool listed for England,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires Sweep Stations Stock, Homes Burned in Yass District
HUNDREDS of head of stock, several homesteads, many station buildings, and about 50,000 acres of grazing land were destroyed yesterday by bushfires near Yass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press Phone: M2406, Newcastle 472 Fires on Three Fronts
Bowing police reported at midnight that 600 men were fighting fires on three fronts. Two new, fires had broken out on two big sheep…
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TOKIO, Monday.--Two hundred passengers were burnt to death and 100 were injured when a petrol-driven train was derailed at Osaka…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Men Watch Fire Embers Yass
All fires in the Yass district were reported to-day to be under control, but hundreds of men are still out watching smouldering stumps and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Censor Under Labor Fire 'Muzzling' Complaint To Menzies
"Intimidatory" methods of censorship and "muzzling of the opposition outside Parliament," were complained of to the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies to-day by a deputation of Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Tragedy Lifts Lid Off “Labor” Laws Brisbane, Jan. 25
Giving evidence at the inquest into the Goomeri fire tragedy, in which seven people were burnt to death, a police sergeant swore…
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