£100 Damage Caused in School Classroom Fire
DAMAGE estimated at £100 was caused by a fire which broke out in a cupboard which was full of books at Daceyville Public School. Joffre…
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Woman, Trapped By Fire, Saved At King's Cross
When a fire broke out in a bedroom in Regent Court Flats, King's Cross, last night, the escape of the occupant, Miss Vera Daniel, was cut off by the fumes and smoke…
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Damage estimated at £200 was caused to a storeroom by fire at South St., Granville, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Brazier Showed Them Fire Four-Horse Was One-Horse Race
Yesterday's four-horse Flying Handicap at Rosehill eventually wound up in being a "one-horse-race" as Brazier scooted right away at the turn and raced on to an eight-lengths win…
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PHILADELPHIA.-- A queue for butter stretched past a hat shop in Philadelphia, and then someone discovered a fire in the hat shop…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Man's Hoax Tale of Theatre Royal Fire
A man who apparently used a public telephone box yesterday rang the home of the managing-director of J. C. Williamson's Theatres, Ltd. (Mr. E. J. Tait) at 1 a.m. and stated that the Theatre Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Atom Bomb Sinks Two, Burns Other Ships at Bikini Test at Sea, Off Bikini, MONDAY.--The first atom bomb ever dropped on a fleet today Set fire to the old Jap battleship Nagato (32,000 tons) and to many of the 77 vessels anchored in Bikini Lagoon
The main target ship, the US battleship Nevada (29,000 tons), was still afloat, but on fire, there was no tidal wave or earthquake and correspondents on the flagship 10 miles from the spot could still see palm trees waving on the islands encircling the lagoon. The bomb was dropped punctually at 8 am (Sydney time) from six miles up;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blaze in Copra Stack
SPONTANEOUS combustion is believed to, have caused a fire in a five-ton stack of chopped copra at Lever Bros, factory, Reynolds - St.,…
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SPONTANEOUS combustion is believed to have caused a fire in a five-ton stack of chopped copra at Lever Bros, factory, Reynolds St.,…
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SPONTANEOUS combustion is believed to have caused a fire in five-ton stack of chopped copra [?] Lever Bros, factory Reynolds…
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SPONTANEOUS combustion is believed to have caused a fire in a five-ton stack of chopped copra at Lever Bros, factory. Reynolds St.,…
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SPONTANEOUS combustion is believed to have caused a fire' in a five-ton stack of chopped copra at Lever Bros, factory. Reynolds St.,…
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SPONTANEOUS combustion is believed to have caused a fire in a five-ton stack of chopped copra at Lever Bros, factory. Reynolds St…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →No Smokes, So Man Fires Shot
A man fired a shot last night at a shopkeeper who refused to sell him cigarettes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Short Circuits Cause Fire
Parramatta firemen attribute fires in two vehicles last week to short circuits due to wet weather. A 1936 Plymouth sedan caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dancers Fight Eugowra Fire
EUGOWRA, Wednesday.—Dancers from a nearby hall saved adjoining buildings when a fire caused about £3,000 damage at Calopedis' corner…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire, Death Caused By 'Shaky Hands
Because of a nervous condition which made her hands shake, a woman, who was fatally burned on May 9,…
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Because of a nervous condition which made her hands shake, a woman, who was fatally burned on May 9…
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Because of a nervous condition which made her hands shake, a woman, who was fatally burned on May 9…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire, Death . Caused By Shaky Hands
Because of a nervous condition which made her hands shake, a woman, who was fatally burned on May 9…
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