£150,000 Damage in Big City Fire Two Buildings Burned Out
Telephone equipment worth more than £100,000 was seriously damaged, and probably destroyed, in a spectacular city fire last night…
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Progress in Pictures of Last Night's Big FIRE—See Page 3 Also
Three stages in last night's big city fire are shown in these pictures. LEFT: The fire has a firm grip in the two upper floors of the Postal Department's transmission laboratory. RIGHT: The fire has spread to Morgan Chambers, from, which a great cloud of flame and smoke is rising. On the right, blinds in the windows of another building have caught alight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telephone Services Restored After Fire
Looking down into the shell of the Postal Department's transmission laboratory off Underwood Street, between George and Pitt Streets, city. Twisted steel girders and bulging walls showed how great was the heat of the fire which destroyed the building on Sunday night. Despite the destruction shown above, P.M.G. engineers restored interrupted trunk-line telephonic communications by lunch-time. LEFT: Mechanics working on the trunk-line switchboard while firemen were still mopping up the water. RIGHT: Engineers working under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Fire Three Shots in Arrest
Police fired three shots before arresting a man at Darling Point last night. Scores of people, some in night clothes, rushed, into the streets…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The prompt arrival of three fire brigades prevented a fire from spreading to adjoining buildings when an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Brigades Assoc. Calls Woman Witness
FOR the first time in the union’s history, a woman last week appeared in an Arbitration Court case as a witness for the Fire Brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Equipment Saved £100,000 Fire Damage
Firemen, at the risk of their lives, saved trunk-line telephone equipment worth £200,000 during the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Army Fire in Japan Troops Talk Of Sabotage
TOKYO, June 16 (A.A.P.Reuter).—The big New Zealand Army Service Corps supply point building at Chofu, in the British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenant Attacks P.M.G. on Fire Damaged Sydney Trunk Lines Restored To Order
The tenant of a building, which on Sunday night was almost destroyed by fire, last night attacked the Post-Master General's Department for having stored inflammables in a…
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Using carbogen, fire brigade officers worked for about 10 minutes to revive a man who had collapsed after staggering…
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Using carbogen, fire brigade officers worked for about 10 minutes to revive a man who had collapsed after staggering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fought Fire In Bare Feet
With pieces of flaming kapok adhering to his bare feet, Charles Moore, 29, of Great Buckingham - street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →3 Homes Menaced As Fire Spread
Three houses were threatened by a fire which broke out in a row of sheds in Holt-street,…
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Using carbogen, fire brigade officers worked for about 10 minutes to revive a man who had collapsed after staggering from his blazing room in a house in Great Buckingham St., Redfern, today…
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Using carbogen, fire brigade officers worked for about 10 minutes to revive a man who had collapsed after staggering from his blazing room in a house in Great Buckingham St., Redfern, today…
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Using carbogen, fire brigade officers worked for about 10 minutes to revive a man who had collapsed after staggering from his blazing room in a house in Great Buckingham St., Redfern, today…
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Using carbogen, fire brigade officers worked for about 10 minutes to revive a man who had collapsed after staggering from his blazing room in a house in Great Buckingham St., Redfern, today…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Truck and Car Lost in Fire
A motor truck and a car were destroyed and a waste storage shed was burnt to the ground in a fire which broke out in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collapse of Man After Room Fire
Using carbogen, fire brigade officers worked for about 10 minutes to revive a man who had collapsed after staggering from his blazing room in a house in Great Buckingham St., Redfern, today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Truck and Car Lost in Fire
A motor truck and a car were destroyed and a waste storage shed was burnt to the ground in a fire which broke out in…
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