Chimney Fire In Prince Street
Last night at 9.35, the Grafton Fire Brigade was called to a fire in Theodore's Milk Bar, Prince street. A chimney in the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
199 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 10
All Smoke, No Fire
IN the past 12 months the prestige of the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) has greatly declined. His speech to delegates at die 1948 Easter conference of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labour Party did nothing to restore it Formerly, Mr. Chifley…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--More that bales of cotton valued ft £600,000 were completely destroyed to-night when a fire…
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A grass fire in the Grafton cemetery yesterday afternoon scorched two chains of fencing on the Crown street alignment…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.--The Opposition Parties plan to keep the Government continuously under fire in the four weeks' sitting of the Federal Parliament opening next Wednesday. A spokesman for the Opposition considers the Government…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners has advised Grafton City Council that the president (Mr. T. J. Smith), with other numbers…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A series of raging bushfires, all of them out of control, are causing widespread havoc…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Heavy rain to-day brought the forest fires in the Warburton and Healesville Ranges under control. The…
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MELBOURNE, Tues. -- Allegations that a man had poured methylated spirits over Isobel Davis of Caulfield, and set alight…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).--Both sides in the Costa Rican war issued a cease fire order at 5 a.m. yesterday and a settlement of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North Dorrigo Blaze 4-Roomed House Gutted
A four roomed weatherboard house at North Dorrigo owned by Mr. H. Shaw and occupied by Mr. Gordon Buttsworth was…
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AFTER a conference with members of the Board of Fire Commissioners last night, members of the Grafton City Council decided to recommend to council steps to reduce fire protection expenditure for Grafton…
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Yesterday afternoon the Grafton Fire Brigade attended a grass fire near the Grafton Base Hospital…
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The Chief Secr[?] Mr. J. M. Baddeley considers [?] be impracticable and [?] to add only one officer and oen fireman…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--Many homes were endangered early this morning when flames in Sydney's most spectacular fire for…
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Readers will have seen much of late concerning education. I hope they will bear with a little more, and maintain their interest…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Ireland was not a good place for Australia to look for migrants, the former Prime Minister of Eire (Mr. De…
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Representations are to bey made by the Grafton City Council to the Board of Fire Commissioners and the Local…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).--Both Jewish and Arab forces have accepted the British order to cease fire in Palestine twin cities of Jaffa and Tel Aviv for a period of…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.--For the fourth time since the freighter, Pemba. reached Australia, two months ago, a fire broke out in…
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