Boys May Have Started Fire
The C.I.B. Arson Squad is investigating the possibility that boys started the fire yesterday which caused…
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Big Factory Fire Wool Plant Burnt
Plant and stock insured for £148,000 was destroyed yesterday morning when fire swept the wool-combing section of a…
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Wool machinery, and buildings insured for £148.000 were destroyed when fire swept part of a large wool-processing works at Botany yesterday morning. Damage was confined to the wool-combing section shown above…
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NEW YORK, Friday.--A black alley cat caused a £150,000 fire in a Newark (New Jersey) processing plant yesterday. Sparks from state electricity in the cat's back set fire to…
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Superfortresses' have burned a total of almost a quarter-million-buildings in Tokio with EM 69, deadly new fire-bomb…
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CANBERRA, Monday.--The bar and anteroom of the officers' mess at Canberra R.A.A.F. Station were destroyed by fire yesterday. All the…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.--All liquor and furniture were saved from a fire at Fairbairn aerodrome…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—The bar and ante-room of the Air Force aerodrome mess was destr[?]yed by fire early yesterday morning…
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Francis Hill, 11, of Liverpool Road, Ashfield, died in Lewisham. Hospital yesterday from shock, following burns he received when…
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When a quantity of merchandise, consisting mostly of soda, salt, wooden cases, and hessian.,causht firs in the centre of No. 3 Wharf. Glebe Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →False Alarm Fire Call to Theatre
A telephone message that an explosion and a fire had occurred at the Broadway picture theatre was received at Fire Headquarters last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Editorial When Cease Fire Sounds in Europe
NEWS of Germany's capitulation will soon ring throughout the world. Australians must make up their minds on how that event should be celebrated here…
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FIREMEN from city brigades were called to fires at Nicholson's music store and to Paling's buildings about the same time this afternoon…
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When a quantity of merchandise, consisting mostly of soda, salt, wooden cases, and hession, caught fire in the centre of No. 8…
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Fire early this morning destroyed the factory of the K-9 Dog Biscuit Co., Bridge Road, Forest Lodge. Fearing that the flames would…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →How Chaplain Won Military Cross Brought In Wounded Under Heavy Fire Conspicuos Bravery at El Alamein
His life as rector of the parish of Seven Hills-Prospect is proving for ex-A.I.F. Chaplain Eric Joseph Seatree, M.C., almost as strenuous as…
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At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the cable-box to the main feeder in the County Council's sub-station in Loscoe Street. Fairfield. collapsed and burnt out. causing a…
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When her dress caught alight at a laundry copper, Mrs Hilda Brown, 46, of Lincoln-street, Stanmore, was critically burned…
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Neighbors rushed to assist Mr. V. Gayleard to remove his furniture when fire threatened the upper-storey of his home in…
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EXCEPT in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, nowhere in the world are big forest fires the problem that they are in the United…
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