Matches Set Fire to Baby Girl's Clothes
NEWCASTLE, Sat. -- Eileen Jackson, 4, of Second Street, Cardiff, was badly burned about the body today when some matches with which she was…
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Fire Victim Visited by Tivoli Ballet
DIANA HARTT (19), only survivor of three show girls burned at the Tivoli Theatre on September 1, was visited by members of the ballet…
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Woollahra Council has decided to protest to the State Government on the closing of fire stations, including that in Woollahra. Vaucluse,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wage Policy Under Fire-- Caucus Orders Review
CANBERRA, Wednesday.-- Bitter resentment of the industrial section of the Labor Party at the continuation of wage- pegging may soon lead to its abolition or a substantial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Board Tried to Blame Government Closing of Stations
Having heard members of the Board of Fire Commissioners—the president (Mr. Smith) and Mr. T. D. Mutch—in regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Control Of Fire Board Considered
The question of introducing legislation to bring the N.S.W. Fire Board under ministerial control would be considered by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Straw in Gay Colors
WE chose Mrs. Becker's hat as being the smartest in Sydney this week because:…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Pastrycooks Under Fire at Conference
"Pastrycooks have one of the worst types of premises a health inspector has to deal with," said Mr. A. L. Masters…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bushfires In N. Shore
A unit from headquarters and brigades from Crow's Nest and Chatswood are fighting bush-fires which started in gullies in…
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Large areas of bush are alight in the Chatswood-Gordon area. One house in Bay St., Turramurra, is said to have been severely damaged in the blaze this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Asks Fire Station Closure Inquiry
Closing of 23 metropolitan fire stations was a drastic step which could be justified only as a temporary measure and should not become the permanent result of reduction in firemen’s hours…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Baby incinerated in bedroom blaze MELBOURNE
LEFT in his cot while his mother was visiting her husband in hospital tonight a two-year-old boy was burnt to death in her absence. The mother, Mrs. N. Le…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires damage bakery, cake shop
Fire caused damage estimated at nearly £1000 at a bakery in Newtown and a cake-shop at Auburn yesterday afternoon…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—Damage estimated at £100,000 was caused by a fire which raged for three hours today at the premises of Maryborough…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Brigade Gets Alarm for Blaze Six Months Old
Leichhardt Fire Brigade yesterday turned out in pouring rain to answer a call to a fire that occurred six months ago. An Annandale resident phoned the Leichhardt Station to report that a furniture factory in The Crescent, Annandale, had…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—About 14,000 tons of bagged sugar were destroyed in a fire at the Maryborough Sugar Mill…
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LONDON, Wednesday.-- Order to "cease fire." has been given in southern Indochina…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Battered to Death with Fire Hose
NEW YORK, Wednesday.--An Army sergeant was found battered to death with the nozzle of a fire hose in a room at Y.M.C.A. House…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday.--An Army sergeant was found battered to death with the nozzle of a fire hose in a room at Y.M.C.A. House…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at Speedway
Penrith Fire Brigade was called out at 10.30 a.m. on Monday to combat a fire at the Speedway when a great quantity of camouflage netting ignited…
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