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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
130 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 7
SYDNEY, Fri.—An enemy plane, apparently from a submarine, was in the vicinity of Sydney to-night. Immediately it was sighted, anti-aircraft batteries went into action and with the first burst of shells the plane immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Mon.—A sudden outbreak of fire in a six-storey building at Annandale, early this morning, completely destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DUBLIN, Wed.—Thirty-seven out of 100 children are missing after a fire which destroyed the female orphanage attached to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wed.—Thirty-six children lost their lives in a fire in a Convent in County Clare, Ireland, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The South Grafton Fire Brigade received a call on Saturday afternoon to extinguish a fire in a stack of turpentine piles in Ryan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sun.—Enrolments will shortly commence for the fire guard section of the N.E.S., said the Minister for N.E.S., Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tues.—The heaviest and most concentrated raid that Berlin has yet had was carried out last night. In half an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Somewhere in New Guinea, Wed.—"Good-bye fellows, I am going down. The—have got me." said Capt. Ray Holsey, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Tues.—Details of the cruiser H.M.A.S. Sydney's last battle with the Nazi raider, Kormoran, were revealed for the first time and pieced together from reports of the Kormoran captain, Detmers, and others of the 347 German survivers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Sun.—A man, his wife and 4½-months-old baby, lost their lives when overflowing tar caught alight at their home…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wed.—A supply of 500 stirrup pumos has been obtained for distribution to councils in approved areas for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE, Thurs.—Damage estimated at more than £50,000 was caused to-day when the fellmongery of Robert Jowitt and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Sun.—Boys and girls over the age of 15 will be eligible to enrol in the new fire guard service being established…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY. Tues.— Within the past 24 hours four separate fires have been discovered at Grace Bros building, Broadway. The fires are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Councillors of the Copmanhurst Shire Council decided at their meeting yesterday, to co-operate with the Armidale Municipal Council in its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Wed.—A fierce fire early this morning destroyed the premises of John Ogden Industries, Ltd., of West Footscray…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thurs.—Despite the ban on correspondents' despatches, Algiers radio to-night said the Eighth Army continues to hold an important bridgehead in the enemy's fortified Mareth zone. The salient which General Montgomery won remains in our hands…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY. Tues.— Damage estimated at £5000 was caused by a fire which partially destroyed the home of A. C. Roach, managing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wed.— A fire which broke out in the chartroom of a large vessel in an Australian port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American soliders returning to the mainland from New Guinea are unstinting in their praise of Australian troops with whom they fought…
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