Sidelights on Marine and Fire Insurance (Contributed)
Marine insurance dates back to as long ago a[?] 3000 B.C. It was first originated by…
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Bush Fires Reduced By Control Measures
Heavy rain late in the season plus vigorous preventive control measures were factors in reducing bush fires last Summer. During last summer…
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BRISBANE.— New entering one of its biggest grass winters in history, almost the whole of pastoral Queensland will have to prepare to combat the threat of great…
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Although the Police Department had been criticised for pressing trivial prosecution…
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Though practically the whole of the north eastern corner of the State is rain sodden,…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →A Burning Shame Modesty can cost your life when your house is on fire
FIREMEN have to contend with many difficulties when fighting the flames, but few people realise that modesty is one of their biggest…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Caravan Destroyed By Fire
Damages estimated at over £1,200 was caused when a caravan in East Street, Granville, was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fifty Years Ago (From the "Nepean Times," June 3, 1905) Boarders in a Fire
On Wednesday night last the the premises of Mrs Watts, at Prospect, were entirely destroyed by fire. Mr. Charles Litton…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nepean Boat Shed Destroyed by Fire the Club, Undaunted, Will Go Right Ahead Support from Sportsmen and Citizens
A devastating fire broke out in Nepean Rowing Club's shed in Weir Road at 7 p.m. on Saturday and destroyed the building and contents. Members are determined to go right ahead with…
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Parramatta City Council is again pressing for re-opening of Granville fire station…
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The Committee is to meet again on July 8 or immediately after the first adjournment by the court to consider any further action then deemed…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners wrote as follows to Holroyd Council:—"With reference to your…
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The explosion of a kerosene room heater very nearly caused the destruction of a home in Fairfield last Thursday evening…
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MR. JOHN BURNS, president of the British Fire Brigades Union and member of the British Labor Party, who has been…
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How he had pulled the severed heads, torsos and limbs of children from wreckage during the London…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Barnes' Fire (To the Editor)
Sir,—With reference to the report of the fire at Mr. Barnes' cottage in your last issue of "The Biz." I would like it to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Granville Won't Reopen Granville Fire Station
Board of fire Commissioners has again refused to re-open Granville Fire Station…
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Fairfield Fire Brigade was called to a fire in a cottage in Longfield Street, Cabramatta, on Wednesday, July 13, which proved a false…
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Fairfield West's volunteer Bush Fire Brigade is probably the only such essential body without means of transport (that is, when the…
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Fairfield [?] Brigade answered a call to a bush fire in Maude St., near Thorney Road, at 1.20, p.m. on Wednesday July 20. The fire…
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