£10,000 Damage in Wool Scour Blaze
BRISBANE, Friday.--Valuable drying plant was destroyed by a fire which, early this morning, damaged a large…
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£10,000 Damage in Wool Scour Blaze
BRISBANE, Friday.--Valuable drying plant was destroyed by a fire which, early this morning, damaged a large…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--Valuable drying plant was destroyed by a fire which, early this morning, damaged a large…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--Valuable drying plant was destroyed by a fire which, early this morning, damaged a large…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--Valuable drying plant was destroyed by a fire which, early this morning, damaged a large…
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DARWIN, Friday. -- A mysterious fire which burned a wooden door at the naval barracks is being investigated…
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A dramatic picture of firemen fighting the huge Maze at Waterloo last night when 16,000 bales of raw cotton were destroyed in a bonded store owned by the Department of Trade and Customs. The wreckage was still burning at an early hour this morning…
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Last night's spectacular fire, which completely destroyed a large bond store in Botany Rd., Waterloo,…
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No provision had been made for fire escapes in the Housing Commission's…
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Last night's spectacular fire, which completely destroyed a large bond store in Botany Rd., Waterloo, would seriously interfere with textile manufacturers' programme, a…
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It was learned today that the cotton destroyed in the fire at the Customs Store, Waterloo, last, night was not…
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All that remained of the big bonded store belonging to the Department of Trade and Customs that was destroyed by a spectacular fire in Botany Road, Waterloo, last night. Fifteen thousand hales of raw cotton went up in smoke. Eight engines from several city and suburban fire brigades fought the fire for some hours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Months' Stock Of Cotton Destroyed In £650,000 Fire
Sixteen thousand bales of raw cotton worth more than £650,000—three months' supply for Australia-were destroyed by fire last night. The fire broke out in a bonded store in Botany road, Waterloo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Glare From This Fire Was Seen From All Over Sydney
BLAZING COTTON. People all over Sydney saw the glare from this fire last night. The fire which gutted the Government Stores building in Botany Road, Waterloo, destroyed 15,000 bales of raw cotton…
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DETECTIVE-SERGEANT BARNES and Detective Souter of the Arson squad have been assigned to investigate the cause of last night's spectacular fire in a Waterloo bond…
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DETECTIVE-SERGEANT BARNES and Detective Souter of the Arson squad have been assigned fo investigate the cause of last night's spectacular fire in a Waterloo bond…
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FIREMEN at work yesterday at the gutted Government Stores building in Botany Road, Waterloo. They are moving badly damaged bales of raw cotton as they look for smouldering embers…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Wool, plant, and buildings worth £23,000 were destroyed in a fire at D. Knox and Sons'…
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More than £250,000 worth of raw textile cotton, would be salvaged from the Government Stores building in Botany Road,…
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DARWIN, Friday. -- Darwin police are investigating a fire at the new naval barracks in Darwin early this morning…
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