Narrow Escapes in Factory Fire
Employees had to run to save themselves this morning when fire swept through a building occupied by three firms in The Crescent, Annandale. THE building, of brick and iron, was…
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£30,000 Daylight Factory Blaze at Annandale Workers Had To Run For Life
In two hours £30,000 damage was caused today by a fire which destroyed a factory in The Crescent, Annandale. The flames spread so rapidly that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Narrow Escape From £10,000 Factory Fire
Employees had to run to save themselves this morning when fire swept through a building occupied by three firms in The Crescent, Annandale. THE building, of brick and iron, was…
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Employees had to run to save themselves this morning when fire swept through a building occupied by three firms in The Crescent, Annandale. THE building, of brick and iron, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narrow Escape From £10,000 Factory Fire
Employees had to run to save themselves this morning when fire swept through a building occupied by three firms in The Crescent, Annandale. THE building, of brick and iron, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raids on Jap Island Bases Big Fires Started In Fuel, Arms Dumps
In darkness on Saturday Australia based bombers heavily raided Japanese air-fields ringing Buin-Faisi naval base in the northern Solomons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Employees Flee From Blazing Building Fire Destroys Factory Three Tenants Lose Heavily
EMPLOYEES had to run to save themselves this morning when fire swept through a building occupied by three firms in the Crescent, Annandale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Help Fight Waterfront Blaze
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.--A great waterfront fire last night destroyed a 330-feet long two-storeyed wooden shed on Wellington wharves…
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Fire destroyed a woodwork factory building in The Crescent, Annandale, at 9.30 yesterday morning. The fire is believed to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Huge Petrol Fire At Sea CAIRO, Wednesday.--
Three million gallons of Axis petrol went up in flames when torpedo- bombers from Malta sank…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gas Masks in Matches Blaze
Gas-masks were worn by firemen amid phosphorus fumes at a fire at Matches (Aus.) Ltd.'s warehouse, Elizabeth-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Lorry and Scrub Fires
A great deal of excitement was caused in Ware Street. Fairfield, near Nelson Street, on Monday, when a delivery. waggon was burnt out. It appears the driver…
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The result of the election of members of the Board of Fire Commissioners has been announced. Mr. T. D. Mutch was elected as…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →37 Orphans Missing After Convent Fire
LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.).--Thirty-seven children are missing after a fire which destroyed a girls' orphanage, attached to the Convent of Poor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →37 Children Missing in Eire Fire
DUBLIN, Feb. 24 (A.A.P.).—Thirtyseven of 100 girls are missing as a result of a fire which destroyed an orphanage attached to a convent of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Natives Watch Fire-fighters
NATIVES at a tropical port watching a British sailor wearing an asbestos suit in which he had given a fire-fighting demonstration. With other sailors, he has just shown the uses of foam apparatus. Naval ratings in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rommel Flees Under Fierce Cross-fire No Let-Up Tunisia
LONDON, Friday.--Rommel buffered forces in central Tunisia are withdrawing eastward of the Kasserine Gap through a hail of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rommel Flees Under Fierce Cross-fire No Let-Up In Tunisia
LONDON, Friday.--Rommel's Sara battered forces in central Tunisia are withdrawing eastward of the Kasserine Gap through a hail of…
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LONDON, Friday.-- Rommel's battered forces in central Tunisia are withdrawing eastward of the Kasserine Gap through a hail of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aerial Spotting for Bushfire Control
BY arrangements with the R.A.A.F. and the military authorities, air reconnaissance for bush fires is at last a feature of the N.S.W. bush fire…
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