Inquiry Into Law on Fire-escapes
The Minislei for Labour and Industry Mr. Gollan, said in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that he would have investigations made into the desirability of amending the law on…
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Elephants Panic in Blaze Melbourne
Panic-stricken elephants, bellowing with fear, stampeded into Sydney-road, Brunswick, during a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Australia Hotel
Fire broke out in the ventilating system of a kitchen on the first floor of the Australia Hotel. Castlereagh Street city last night Flames were running up the flue as far as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Summary. Oversea News. London's Fire-fighters
The War Office has decided to release all soldiers not above the rank of corporal who were professional firemen or serving in an auxiliary fire service before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Frocks. Man's Use of Fire-escape Alleged
At the Central Police Court yesterday police alleged that a man used the fire escape of the Grace Building to remove a number of women's frocks which had…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Demon
"Fire!" by Major C. C. B. Morris, C.B.E., M.C.—Blackie. London is being attacked. On its packed East End streets, its huge stores,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →German Guns Fire at Convoy
LONDON, Friday.--German guns on the French coast fired two salvos at a British shipping convoy in the Straits of Dover today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Brothers Die In Fire MELBOURNE
Two brothers were burned to death in a house at Upwey early today. They were: William Arthur Knox. 21…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Duke of Kent Sees Fire Fighting Services. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Oct. 4
The Duke of Kent yesterday visited ti number of London fire brigade centres. During the tour there was an air-raid warning and heavy gunfire could be heard. The Duke…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Cruel Fire Demon
IT was a hot evening, when I sat on the verandah watching the drooping flowers. All day long the scorching sun had fallen on the land,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Keep the Home Fires Burning Overcoats For Victims Of Air Raids
A 10-DAYS" drive for over-coats for British child victims of air raids will be opened next Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Gayest Meeting for Years Fashions made Randwick a blaze of color for second wartime Derby
Mr. Fowler, who defines a hat as a head-covering, should have been at Randwick yesterday. He would have revised the Oxford Dictionary to read "head-decoration." Any purpose of covering and protection was forgotten. Instead there…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →"Where's That Fire."
The comic cuts and capers in "Where's That Fire" are such utter rubbish that even the Salvage Commissioner might not be interested in collecting the reels and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meeting Nazi Fire Attack LONDON
The London fire-fighting service is systematically tackling the greatest outbreak of fires in the history…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baby Burnt to Death. Mysterious Fire in Push-cart
A four-months'-old child, Lesile. Thomas Monks, was fatally burnt yesterday in a push-cart in which he was sleeping in the backyard of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London's Heaviest Gun Barrage Nazi Bombers Checked by Wall of Fire London
Londoners last night heard the heaviest and most continuous anti-aircraft barrage thrown up from the city since the war began. People in even the deepest air-raid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smashed Door Tells of Fire
MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Three people asleep in their house at Tooradin early today first knew that the building was on fire when a neighbor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Moree Hotel Damaged by Fire. Moree
Damage estimated at £2,000 Was done by fire at the Hotel Max yesterday afternoon. The fire began in the ceiling of the dining-room, apparently as a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bushfire Burns Out 10,000 Acres. Brisbane
A bushfire burnt out 10,000 acres on Teviot station, the property of J. Mitchell and Sons. 25 miles from Winton, yesterday. The fire was started by a whirlwind which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On the Land. the Bushfire Season. Eternal Vigilance. Damaging Effect on Pastures
"October and November have been proclaimed by many shire councils as prohibited months for the burning-off of stubble and…
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