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Housewives rushed out with stirrup pumps, sand, and shovels to extinguish incendiary bombs, when a German plane made a fire raid on the outskirts…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"It seems to me we want a new Board. It's no use backing and filling. We want someone there with a bit of savvy. Millions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At a solemn moment in the history of the United States, the first of her Presidents to deliver a third inaugural address has turned from controversy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A bushfire on the south-western slope of Mt. Macedon today threatened the country home of the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Friday evening a fire broke out in the furniture factory owned by Mr. Henry Llewellyn, in Bonar St., Arncliffe. Fire brigades attended…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GIVING a warning that the offence must be considered in the light of community welfare Mr. F. Grugoon, P.M. fined George Daniels £10 with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Employers will lose their right to dismiss employees in certain war industries, under the ndustral conscription scheme. This decision by War Cabinet was announced by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor campers and picnickers must take care with camp fires and comply with the Careless use of Fires Act and the Bush Fires Act…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The entire main dance hall of the Trocadero Palais, at the corner of St. Kilda Road and City Road, South Melbourne, was destroyed early this morning by one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →An unoccupied weatherboard cottage in Rawson-street, Lidcombe, was severely damaged by fire early to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE hot day in the middle of summer, a big smoke haze rose up in the bush. Then suddenly a big flame leapt up a tree. Soon flames…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE motto of London's Fire Watchers is now: "Stop the home fires burning."…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →JUNEE, Saturday. -- Fire badly damaged a house in Junee because firemen twice had to move their hose from a railway line to allow first a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Jay Wilkins, 48, fireman, collapsed while rolling up a hose after he had been fighting a fire for an hour at Ringwodd early…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A motor lorry owned by Mr. Stanley Kenney, builder, of Wollongong, and four petrol pumps at Murray's garage were damaged by fire to-day. The fire began while the lorry…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An unoccupied weatherboard cottage in Rawson-street, Lidcombe, which caught fire early on Saturday morning, was badly damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was a lively meeting of Rook-wood Council in June, 1892, when a petition signed by 124 ratepayers, "principally residing in Hyde Park, Regent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MOUNT ISA, Tuesday.--Fire today destroyed the Inland Methodist parsonage which was built in six months last year by the Rev. Jaspen and four…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mrs. Marguret Fowler, who died late on Monday night from shock following burns, was well known as a worker for the Congregational Mission in Surry Hills…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mysterious fires have been breaking out in big Swedish plants, states Mr. Percy Elliott, a British…
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