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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

434 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 22

Chicago Fire Disaster Increased Death Roll Expected

National Advocate · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thursday: Investigators are already sifting evidence on the distastrous fire at the La Sail Hotel in Chicago…

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Mr. Cooper Fires Last (C.w.d. Permitted) Shot at Keith McK

Central Western Daily · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 3

Dear Sir. — The [?] is indeed for[?] in its [?]. According to Mr. Conundrum Mck [?]…

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Compensation for Fire Damage Bathurst District Land-holder Awarded £512/10 Federal Hirings Cases

National Advocate · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 1

A compensation award for 1512/10/ was made in favor of Adrion Norman Inwood of Glanmire. by the Commonwealth Hirings Commission,…

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Awarded £512 in Bushfire Compensation

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 2

A verdict of £51210-, as compensation for damage caused to his property at Clear Creek, near Limekilns, in November, 1944, as a result…

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Tracer Bullets Cause Bushfire Grazier Awarded Compensation

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 8

A verdict for £512/10/-, as compensation for damage caused to his property at Clear Creek, in November, 1944, as a…

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U.s Hotel Fire Disasters

National Advocate · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 1

CHICAGO, Monday: The death roll of, the Chicago Hotel fire rose today to 61. with the death In hospital of a man whose wife and 15 years old…

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Panic Made Second American Fire a Grim Tragedy Dubuques (Ohio)

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 1

Like the fire at Chicago’s Hotel (La Salle) tragedy, panic contributed to the death-roll in Dubuque’s greatest tragedy, in which at least 15 persons lost their lives in a fire in…

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Fire Near Petrol Depot

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 12 June 1946 · page 1

Vacuum Oil Company's petrol depot was menaced by a fire which broke out in a large patch of blackberry bushes in Main-street West…

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K.C. for Fire. Sydney

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 12 June 1946 · page 1

Australia’s first High Commissioner to Eire, W. J. Dignam, has been appointed a King’s Counsellor. He was called to the Bar twenty…

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Preventing Fires Spark Arrester Experiments

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 13 June 1946 · page 14

The chief officer of the Rural Fire Brigades (Mr. C. A. Daw) announced recently that the Country Fire Authority was…

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Fire Fountains Over Harbor

Central Western Daily · Thursday 13 June 1946 · page 1

ROCKET SHELLS burst over Fort Denison and warships in Sydney Harbor on Monday night and this time-exposure picture has caught the beauty of the fiery cascade…

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Unusual False Alarm "Fire"

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 13 June 1946 · page 2

Lithgow fire brigade answered a false alarm at 93 Hassans Walls road this morning when the roof of a house was reported to be on fire…

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Chimney Fire

National Advocate · Friday 14 June 1946 · page 2

Bathurst Fire Brigade quickly extinguished a chimney fire at the residence of Mr. George Bacheldor, of 334 Howick Street, with a hand pump…

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Alleged Fire-bug Remand on Heavy Bail

National Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Axel Peterson (48) pleaded not guilty and was remanded until June 20 on £200 bail at be Central Court today on having…

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Nazis Fire Big Internment Camp

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 19 June 1946 · page 4

Nazis set fire to an internment camp near Scheveningen, Holland, and rushed the gates, says Reuter’s…

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Guards Fire at Truck Arrests at Munitions Dump MELBOURNE

National Advocate · Wednesday 19 June 1946 · page 2

Shots fired by guards at a truck driven into Maribrynong Munit[?] Dump at midnight shattered both headlights, punchtured a petrol tank…

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Country News Review. Bishop Moyes at Tamworth — Mystery Fire at Goulburn - “Take Its Percentage” - Car in River for Two Weeks

Central Western Daily · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 5

“It is men and women who make up this world, and it is the equality of their hives, of their character and of their courage to put forward their ideas that will lift the universe from the plight it is now in,” said Bishop…

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Chimney Fire

National Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 2

Bathurst Fire Brigade was summoney about 8 o'clock last night to attend a chimney fire at the home of Mrs. L. C. Kable, of 58 Piper' St…

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Snooker Fire Brigade Beats Lansdowne

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 2

A team representing the Lansdowne Hotel met the Fire Brigade combination in a snooker challenge at the Fire Station last night…

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“America Is World’s No. 1 Fire Trap” New York

Central Western Daily · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 1

“Fires in the United Sates caused the death of over 10,000 people and a financial loss of 500 million dollars annually…

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