Big Waterfront Fire £100,000 Damage Blaze at Hobart
National Advocate · Monday 15 March 1948 · page 3
HOBART, Sunday: A big fire late this afternoon caused damage estimated at more than £l00,000 on Hobart's waterfront. Within half an hour, more than 300 yards of ocean pier were blazing and firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Hobart Fire Huge Damage to Ocean Pier Hobart
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 15 March 1948 · page 1
It is estimated over 8,000 people, who wore kept in check by a big squad of police, watched the disastrous fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Exhibit
Central Western Daily · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 7
A feature of the Bush Fires Advisory Committee’s information bureau at the Royal Sydney Easter Show this year…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Guts Factories Melbourne
National Advocate · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 3
Two adjoining South Kensington factories were partly destroyed by fire early to-day. The factory building of L. R…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cottages Destroyed in Woy Woy Fire
National Advocate · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sunday: Two cottages were totally destroyed by fire and a third badly damaged in an outbreak at Woy Woy today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jews And Arabs In Conflict Heavy Damage in Fires and Explosions Jerusalem
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 1
Seven Jews, six Arabs and one British officer were killed and many Jews injured in Palestine yesterday when fresh…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Orange's First Fire
National Advocate · Monday 29 March 1948 · page 2
Orange residents heard the orange fire siren last night for the first time this year. The brigade was called to extinguish a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bathurst Grass Fire
National Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 2
Bathurst Fire Brigade's siren was sounded for the first time in two months early yesterday afternoon. The Brigade was called to extinguish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spectacular Trangie Cars Blaze
National Advocate · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 2
TRANGIE, Thursday: A man was badly burned and another lost £78 in a wallet together with 44 petrol tickets, when a car and a utility…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£650,000 Cotton Fire in Sydney
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 2
Raw cotton worth more than £650,000 was destroyed last night by a fire in a bonded store in Botany Road, Waterloo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dense Crowd Watches Big Sydney Fire
National Advocate · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday: Fifteen thousand bales of badly needed cotton and motor spare parts were destroyed this evening by fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Sydney Fire Hampers Texile Production
National Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday: The spectacular fire, Which completely destroyed a large bond store in Botany Road. Waterloo, would seriously interfere…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Minor Fire This Afternoon
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 1
Fire threatened to destroy three sides of the fencing surrounding the Esk-street water reservoir this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General’s ‘‘Cease Fire’’ Offer Arab League Not Interested
Central Western Daily · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 3
JERUSALEM, Sunday.— The Palestine Government was ready to discuss with Arab and Jewish civil and military leaders details for a ‘‘cease fire’’ agreement, declared the High Commissioner,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Fire in Western Stores Brigade Makes Great Save
Central Western Daily · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1
A fierce fire which broke out in the produce store of Western Stores shortly before 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon caused damage estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Employee's Courage in Removing Gelignite Prevents Serious Accident in Big Orange Fire
National Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1
ORANGE, Monday: The courage of a young radio technician for his part in the removal of several hundredweights of gelignite from a blazing storeroom at the rear of the Western Stores, Orange, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Chimney Fire
National Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 2
Bathurst Fire Brigade was called to a fire at 10.40 p.m. last night, when a chimney caught fire in the mess hut at the Per Way Railway Workshops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Orange Fire Damage Exceeds £10,000
National Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 1
ORANGE, Tuesday: Damage in buildings and stock caused by the big fire at the Western Stores here yesterday, was estimated by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fog Machine Has Unlimited Possibilities ! Will Prevent Fires and Kill Bugs
The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 3
The possibilities of fog machines in preventing fires and exterminating bugs and fliesin addition to killing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central Western Daily Grand Job by Orange Fire Brigade
Central Western Daily · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 2
Members of Orange fire brigade more than deserve every word of praise that has been given for their…
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