Disaster Area As Fires Spread
WASHINGTON, Sunday (A.A.P.).—President Tuman to-day proclaimed the entire State of Maine a disaster area as…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
213 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 11
Fire Damages Dry Cleaner's Shop
COFF'S HARBOUR, Sun.—Considerable damage was caused by a fire which broke out in business premises in…
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A small fire on Saturday night in a partly demolished house at the corner of Dobie and Kent streets was extinguished in a…
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LITHGOW, Mon.—A man employed at Lithgow had a harrowing experience to-day when he fell into the…
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PORTLAND (Maine), Monday (A.A.P.),—For the first time in a week, fire fighters held the line yesterday on all fronts of the charred New England forests where flames have already caused damage upwards of 27,000,000 dollars…
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An outbreak of fire at Mr. F. S. Bailey's Dry-Gleaning Works, in Ocean Street, Coffs Jetty, on Saturday afternoon, caused considerable…
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A tragic fire occurred at Boambee shortly before midnight last night when the ten months' old baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vic Lindsay was burnt to death. In the fire the Boambee Post Office. Store…
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WASHINGTON, Tues. (A.A.P.)—Announcing his intention to suggest to the FBI that it seek evidence of deiberate sabotage in…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—Although struck by falling masonry, an Australian merchant seaman, Peter Jackson escaped…
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COFF'S HARBOUR, Tuesday.—A ten-months-old baby girl, Nellie Lynette Lindsay, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lindsay, of Boambee, was burned to death when the home of her parents was destroyed by fire in the early hours of this…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Police at Scranton, Pennsylvania, to-day arrested Harry Anderson (29), of Brooklyn…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Miners' leaders clash d with coal owners' representative to-day before the Coal Industry Tribunal when they…
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LISMORE, Thurs.—Shortly after midnight the Lismore Fire Brigade' left to fight a fierce blaze reported by the Maritime…
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Yesterday afternoon the Grafton Fire Brigade, under the command of Captain B. Bain, turned out to a small fire in…
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BYRON BAY, Fri.—More than £3000 damage was caused in a spectacular blaze on the Byron Bay Jetty, in the early…
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LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—By 252 votes to 144, the House of Commons last night, defeated a move by the Labour member (Mr. Rhys Davies) to annul the Government's Control of Engagement Order. Prior to the vote, Mr. Davies asserted that if the…
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STOCKHOLM, Thursday (A.A.P.).—An unknown number of persons were burned and killed when a passenger train…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Mr. Lang (Ind. Lab., N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives to-day moved for the cancellation of the credentials and passport of the Australian representative at the U.N.E.S.C.O. conference in Mexico City, Samuel Phineas Lewis…
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A Grafton widower and his four children are homeless as a result of their house being completely destroyed by fire late on…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—A bushfire warning was issued to-day by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddcley). He emphasised that…
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