British Soldiers Killed In Dance Hall Fire
BERLIN, Mon.—It is officially announced that three British soldiers were killed and four seriously injured in a fire in a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
213 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 11
Fire Act Prosecution
SYDNEY, Tues.—The first prosecution under the Careless Use of Fire Act 1912 was made to-day when Miss Alvina…
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LISMORE, Thurs.—Due to retten mains causing failure of the water supply, Ballina Fire Brigade was forced to watch helplessly for nearly an hour while a 28-room guest house at Lighthouse Hill, Ballina, was gutted by fire in the early hours of this…
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PARIS, Tues.— Pickets in the press employees' strike turned fire hoses on members of the "Committee for Defence of…
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Bellingen Shire Council has received, a letter front the Bush Fires Advisory Committtee, Sydney, stating that an…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Fires caused £3000 damage to a garage at Maroubra Junction and more than £1000 damage to a city…
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CANBERRA, Tues.—When a curtain caught fire in an airliner flying between Sydney and Canberra to-day a passenger beat…
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COFF'S HARBOUR, Wed.— When a report on the activities of the Coff's Harbour and district banana growers' fire insurance…
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The quarterly meeting of the Coffs Harbour Branch, of The Banana Growers' Federation, was held in the Stehooi of Arts, Coffs Harbour, on…
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PEARL HARBOUR, Fri.—All available Army, Navy and marine fire equipment was rushed to Pearl Harbour to fight a roaring…
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SYDNEY, Fri.—Thousands of newspapers and packets were destroyed, and others damaged by fire, in a mail bin at the G.P.O…
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CAPETOWN, Sun.—It is disclosed that a small fire aboard the battleship, H.M.S. Vanguard which brought the Royal Family…
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A pastoralist in Grafton yesterday stated that Clarence farmers could probably do quite a lot to relieve their…
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When a spark ignited petrol at a South. Graf ton garage yesterday, Gordon Maxwell Saggus, 18, of 59 Alice street, Grafton, was severely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Haifa Oil Fire Under Control
JERUSALEM, Tuesday.—The fire which caused damage, unofficially estimated at £4,000.000 sterling in oil installations at Haifa, was got under control last night. However, one large tank is burning itself out at the rate of six inches hourly…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Mrs. Dorothy Sciafe (25), of Dulwich Hill, washed her hair in kerosene, then lit a cigarette, to-day…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—Four thousand people had an additional thrill at Luna Park, Sydney fun ground, last night when one of the big…
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NEW YORK, Fri.—Fresh fires, flaring up in Texas City last night, brought renewed peril to the devastated Gulf of Mexico port—less than three hours after it had been announced that an [?]d was in sight to the chain of disasters which wrecked the city…
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CALCUTTA, Friday.—A loss estimated at £1,500,000, was caused by a fire at an R.A.F. ordnance depot a few miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys Jap. Homes
TOKIO, Mon.—A fire which broke out the inland city of Lida, 100 miles west of Tokio at noon yesterday, and raged until 3 a.m. to-day, destroyed 3984 houses,…
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