Petrol on Harbour. Fire Danger Passes
Police and firemen kept strict watch until 6 a.m. yesterday on the areas of the harbour over which petrol from a broken pipe had sprend and crealed a serious risk of fire…
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Gas Masks Used in Mill Blaze
DENSE sulphur fumes caused firemen to don gas masks to fight a blaze which last night caused £5000 damage at the Bradford Dye Works Pty., Ltd., Rosebery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Slow Trams On Fire AUCKLAND
Seven tram cars caught fire to-day as a result of slow-running, due to the tramwaymen's "go-slow" strike. Fire brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dublin Dockyard Fire. London, April 30
A large fire in Dublin's dockyard area yesterday completely destroyed two timber yards…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Panic in City Building. Switchboard Fire. Boys Trapped in Lift
There was panic in Manning Building, Pitt Street, city, yesterday afternoon, when fire broke out in the switchboard on the ground floor, plunged the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Explosion in Dye Works £5000 Fire May Hold Up Defence Orders
Damage estimated at £5000 was caused by a fire, following an explosion at the Bradfield Dye Works in Dunning Avenue, Botany, last night. Thousands of yards of cotton and art silk material…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£5,000 Fire at Dye Works. Chemicals Ignite. Men's Narrow Escape
Damage estimated at £5,000 was done by fire last night at the premises of Bradford Dye Works Pty., Ltd., in Mentmore Avenue, Waterloo…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bush fires on Mountains Shire Council's Action
A special committee appointed by the Blue Mountains Shire Council has gone into the question of prevention of bush fires, and at a recent meating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Waterloo
A fire broke out on the top floor of the works of Mau[?] Bros, and Thomson, Ltd., in Bourke Street, Waterlo[?] about midnight Wooden supports of machinery used for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Benreoch's Fire Vessel To Dock
The fire which broke out in the copra cargo of the steamer Benreoch while she was alongside the wharf at Singapore on the 27th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Sloop Sunk. Set on Fire by Nazi Bombers. No Casualties. London, May 2
The Admiralty announced this afternoon that H.M.S. Bittern, a sloop of 1,190 tons, has been lost without casualties…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in City
Members of the salvage branch of the Fire Brigade, directed by the Deputy Fire Officer, Mr. Beare, saved hundreds of pounds' worth of stock last night, when a fire broke out in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fire—Then Rain
We have been having very hot and dry weather here. The grass is dry and there is very little feed about for the cattle. People have…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Leaderless Legion Fire Dangers
WHEN public grandstands are built on sports grounds and other places of entertainment, it is quite a common practice to lease the area beneath…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Artillery Fire on West Front Our Own Cable Service
LONDON, Friday.--10-day's communique reports that there was some artillery fire on the western Front in the early part of the night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aged Woman in Laundry Fire Saved Neighbor With Hair Singed
When her hair caught fire as she was lighting the copper in the washhouse at her home to-day, Mrs. Amelia Muggridge, 75, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ship Under Fire. Says U.S. Crew New York
The crew of the American freighter Flying Fish, on arrival in New York, claimed that the machine-gun fire of British bombers raked the Flying…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfire at Fishing Point
Late one afternoon as the red sun went down beyond the purple hills, . I saw in the distance clouds of thick smoke, which arose from the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Conflagration Set Ring on Fire Mamillius Moke for Money Melbourne
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The second division of to-day's Bulla Trial was a veritable battle of the giants. Almost as soon as betting had opened, commissioners from the Conflagration and Fiesal stables set to work as though to MANY of the progeny of horses imported to Australia by the late John "Baron" Brown, of, Newcastle, have won flat races…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Fire, Sinking, But British Sloop Gallantly Fights Back Men Calm in Face of Death London
SINKING and on fire after a terrific explosion, which occurred when she was struck by a Nazi bomb, H.M.S…
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