Hints to Motorists. Electrical Fires
If fire should occur in the wiring system it is sometimes hard to locate and the best idea is immediately to disconnect one of the cables at the…
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Waited Calmly in Smoke Girls At N.S. Fire Behaved Well
With smoke and fumes from a paint fire swirling about them, 30 girls at a factory in Walker-street. North Sydney, calmly stood at their posts…
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A bushfire at The Rock, which started when lightning struck a tree during a heavy storm to-day, destroyed 150 acres of stubble and grass and several miles of fencing…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.--No fewer than a dozen bushfires were started last night by lightning during an electric storm in the…
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WAGGA, Thursday.--After a tree which had been struck by lightning last night had smouldered throughout the night, a gust of wind this…
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WAGGA, Thursday.--A tree struck by lightning last night started a bushfire on Overdale, the property of Mr. F. G. Leahy, 10 miles from Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Gas Works. Bathurst
Pour hundred gallons of tar caught fire, and were destroyed, at Bathurst gas works this morning. The brigade brought the blaue under control…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Smouldering Tree Starts Fire. Wagga
A tree shuck by lightning yesterday smouldered all night, and to-day a gusty breeze fanned the embers and started a fire on Overdale, the property of Mr. F. G. Leahy, at…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fined for Fire Near Grass. Goulburn
At Goulburn Police Court, Jack Swann, of Goulburn, was fined £1 for having ignited inflammable material within 10 yards of grassland. Police said that Swann had admit…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fire Board Elections. Councillor Shaw Nominated by Kogarah
Kogarah Council was advised on Monday night by the returning officer for election of members of the Board of Fire Commissioners that nominations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lodz Great Synagogue Set on Fire by Nazis
All the funds of the Lodz Jewish Community have also been confiscated by the Nazis and any expenses incurred by the Jewish Community…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Spraying Plant. Factory Filled With Smoke
A fire broke out in the spraying plant at the factory of Warburton, Franki, Ltd., general electrical manufacturers, in Walker Street North Sydney yesterday and dense smoke…
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Because defence orders of brass are given precedence over civilian requirements, bushfire brigades in many parts of New South Wales may…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mechanic's Burns In Petrol Blaze
Walter Johnston, 19, Junior mechanic of Cohen Street, Manly, was seriously burnt at work yesterday. Johnston, an employee of Dangar…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Artificial Mist for Oil Fires
Artificial mist, which will not burn on the surface of oil, was tested yesterday at Bunnerong electric power station…
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His clothing ignited when petrol was spilled on to it at Pyrmont yesterday, Walter Johnson, 19, of Cohen Street, Manly, was badly burned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Destroys Stables. Bourke
The stables of the Central Australian Hotel were destroyed by fire yesterday evening. Prompt action by the fire brigade, under Captain G. Sharp, saved adjacent buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cripple Fought To Aid His Screaming Mother Desperate Effort at Blaze Adelaide
HER crippled son, Oscar, could only listen helpless to her screams yesterday, when Caroline Langkow, 65,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Two men burnt in petrol fire
Two men were badly burnt yesterday when petrol caught fire in a Mascot aero engine repair shop. Neville White, an instructor at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Swaggie Lit Camp Fire in Wynyard Subway
To a swagman visiting Sydney, Wynyard Station is no different from the outback road. Last night he lit a fire made with newspaper in the subway…
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