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BIG FIRE AT RB^tfERN. BOOT FACTORY BADLY DAMAGED, ! I (United Frees Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 19. Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by fire in Loudon’s boot factory at Redfern. The firemen effected a great save, as the fire had a strong hold when they arrived. The origin is a mystery. RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. FLATS NEAR ALBURY SUBMERGED. SYDNEY, August 19. (Received August 19, at 8 p.m.) Recent rajns and the backing of water by the Hnme Weir, near Albury, is causing submergence of the Mitta River flats. Stock is being removed, and road traffic is blocked. Hundreds of tiger snakes can be seen climbing on to the tops of fences and tree limbs above the water. HOLD UP AT BANK. TWO MEN ARRESTED. ADELAIDE, August 19. (Received August 20, at 1 a.m.) There was a daring daylight bank hold-up at the Norwood. branch of the Bank of Adelaide to-day. Two men, one armed with a revolver and the other carrying a file wrapped in brown paper, entered the bank, the manager of which, Mr L. Clutterbuek, was alone at the time. The robber with the file struck him on the head and dazed him, but Clutterbuek had already pressed the alarm bell with his foot, summoning a neighbouring shopkeeper, who telephoned to the detectives. The robbers stole £2OB and were departing over a back fence when a plucky citizen named Crocker, having heard of the raid, caught and held one man, whose confederate ran away to a taxi cab and escaped, but later a .taxi cab driver was arrested on a charge of complicity. The robber whom Crocker caught had £lB6 in his pockets, MASKED MEN IN SYDNEY. , RENT COLLECTOR' ROBBED. SYDNEY, August 19. (Received August 19, at 9 p.m.) James Stewart, aged 79, a rent collector, was brutally assaulted and robbed of £5 at his liqtne in Paddington to-day. Stewart had just returned home collecting rents, when twomasked young men broke finto the place, knocked Kim down, kicked him, 'hud rifled his pockets, but they missed a large sum which was in the I 'house.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20800, 20 August 1929, Page 9
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