Stores Fire Inquiry
Coroner D. M. Cregan has set Tuesday, December 13, as the date for the official enquiry into the fire which completely gutted the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
454 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 21 of 23
YOU Three Die In Uni. Fire
NORMAN OKLAHOMA Sun—A wooden dormitory housing 400 university of Oklahoma students, was burned to the ground with a few minutes yesterday…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday: Wheat worth about £12,000 was destroyed by fire in Gunnedah district this afternoon…
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DUBBO, Monday: In a temperature around 100 degrees. Dubbo firemen to-day filled buckets from a water tank to prevent fire spreading from a…
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A fire which occurred in the engine of a bus at the corner of Icely Road and Nathan Streets, Orange, late yesterday…
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A mess room is to be constructed at Orange fire station to provide facilities for volunteer firemen stationed on the…
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SOURABAYA, Monday: Four Indonesians were killed and 10 wounded today when police fired on 400 Indonesians and tricycle taxi drivers…
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Dissatisfaction with the adequacy of Lithgow's fire fighting equipment was expressed at last night's City Council meeting when aldermen condemned the Department's action in removing the "Mack" fire engine from Lithgow, leaving the town to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfire Threat If Heat Wave Conditions Remain Aid To Crops
Mild heat wave conditions over the Central West in the last few days have brought a threat of…
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Representatives of Bush Fire Brigades operating within or partially within Canobolas Shire will hold a meeting on Thursday…
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Property owners wishing to carry out burning-off operations on their land must first of all obtain a…
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A fire which started in the Gosling Creek pine forest yesterday morning was put out by Orange fire brigade before it endangered the whole of the area. Firemen extinguished the…
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CASCADE (Penns.), Monday: Eight children died when their home was burned early today. The victims were five boys and three girls whose father…
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A major fire which completely wiped out the railway electrical stores depot, Bowenfels, causing damage estimated at about £10,000, on the night of November 5, was accidentally caused, the District…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Two hundred new English and American cars among other vehicles and plant and machinery valued at about £250,000, were destroyed in a fire which gutted Dominion Motors assembly plant at Waterloo…
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Bathurst firemen Quickly quelled an outbreak of fire which occurred in a backyard yesterday, when it threatened to destroy fences and fowlyards…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Two hundred new cars, station waggons and trucks, plant and machinery, valued at more than £200,000, were destroyed when fire swept through the assembly plant of dominion…
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MILLTHORPE.—Small boys playing in Mr. Alf Bentleys yard, at Millthorpe, on Sunday morning, set fire to same bags in the shed…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: At a special inquiry into a fire which wiped out the Railway Electrical Stores Depot at Bowenfels in November, the…
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TWO hundred new cars, station waggons and trucks, plant and machinery, valued at more than £200,000, were destroyed when fire…
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