Selectors under fire
NSW athletic selectors are being criticised for their method of naming the team for the Australian championships…
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Family Flees in Store Fire
ORANGE, Monday.--A family of four fled in their night attire when a fire raced through a general store, to which their…
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THE presence of mind of a 47-years-old woman enabled a man to escape from the awning of his blazing shop on the corner of Trafalgar and Collins Streets, Annandale, shortly before 4 a.m. today…
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THE presence of mind of a 47-years-old woman enabled a man to escape from the awning of his blazing shop on the corner of Trafalgar and Collins Streets, Annandale, shortly before 4 a.m. today…
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A POLICE party left Brewarrina this morning to inspect damage caused yesterday by a bushfire on valuable grazing…
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A POLICE party left Brewarrina this morning to inspect damage caused yesterday by a bushfire on valuable grazing…
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A POLICE party left Brewarrina this morning to inspect damage caused yesterday by a bushfire on valuable grazing…
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A POLICE party left Brewarrina this morning to inspect damage caused yesterday by a bushfire on valuable grazing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Loaned Gear Checks Blaze
Jack Woodward, of Clyde Street, Granville, checked a fire in Beverley Chambers, Market Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Hobart
HOBART, Monday.—A spectacular fire to-day caused damage estimated at £10,000 in an electrical goods storeroom of the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Percival Chadler, 47, laborer, was sentenced to a month's gaol at Bungaree Court, near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Under the Green Firemen Can't Put Fire Out
Firemen cannot extinguish a fire which began on November 3 in a thick layer of coke under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Councils Want Legislation on Bush Fires
"We have once again been most fortunate that the weather —except for the Xmas season, has kept bush fires to a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Man Dies In Truck Fire
MAITLAND, Tues. -- A motor mechanic was trapped in a blazing truck and burned to death hear…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Insurance Employees’ Earnings Under Fire
BRISBANE. Firm action by Queensland insurance agents has defeated company moves for “agreements” reducing agents’ commission…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Bush Fire Brigade
A meeting of the Springwood District Bush Fire Brigade was held on January 20, with a good attendance. Discussion centred on the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Laundry
A fire broke out in the laundry of Mrs. Paine's home in Station Street, Fairfield, at 4.3 a.m. on Thursday morning last. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rapp also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man, wife badly burned in blaze at city studio
A woman cleaner and her husband were severely burned today in a fire on the second floor of Pacific House, George Street, city. Josephine Hooker, 33, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Couple Suffer Burns in Fire
Early this morning a man and his wife we severely burned about the face and hands, and a family of four was almost overcome with choking smoke when a fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Couple Suffer Burns in Fire
Early this morning a man and his wife were severely burned about the face, and hands, and a family of four was almost overcome with chokinq smoke when a fire broke…
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