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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

199 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 10

No Solution To Mystery Fires

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 May 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.--Despite thorough investigations into circumstances surrounding the four fires which…

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Fire In Theatre

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Fri.--Patrons at a Brisbane theatre, who had just finished watching a newsreel of a Sydney fire this afternoon, were…

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Fire in Cathedral

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun. -- Soon after morning Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral finished, firemen rushed down the main isle to fight…

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Fire In Brisbane A.B.C. Studios

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday. --.The technical Staff members in Brisbane studios of the ABC this morning were forced to vacate…

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Fire Brigades May Be Immobolised

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--N.S.W. Fire Brigades may be immobilised by a stoppage of all hands on June 1. Officers and members of the Fire Officers Association…

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Fire At Match Factory

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 2

A roof fire broke out at the Federal Match Company yesterday afternoon. Two firemen, who work at the factory, had the…

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Heavy Fighting Near Jerusalem -City under Fire

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Tues (A.A.P.).--Jewish communiques issued, last night in reported heavy fighting near the Jaffa and Damascus gates of Jerusalem…

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Fire in Dutch Palace

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 2

THE HAGUE, Wed. (A.A.P.).--Dutch soldiers helped to carry many art treasures and other valuables to safety as firemen…

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Cause Of Fire Mystery

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The cause of the fire which destroyed a Commonwealth store containing £740,000 worth of cotton was a…

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Speeding Fire Brigade In Collision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Fri.--While racking to a "fire to-day the Lismore Fire Brigade was involved in a collision with a sedan car at a street…

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Third Officer For Fire Brigade

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 3

The Board of Fire Commissioners advised last night's meeting of the Grafton City Council that in order to preserve the funds of…

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Boat Wins Trophy After Catching Fire

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 2

The speedboat, Sinbad, owned by Mr. Rowley Allen, caught fire on Saturday during one of its trial runs. The fire caused damage to…

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Arabs May Disregard UNO Cease Fire Order

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.).--The Provisional Government of Israel has ordered Jewish forces on all fronts in Palestine to obey the U.N.O. order to cease fire at 3 a.m. on Tuesday (Australia time), but Arab forces may disregard, it…

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Jews, Arabs Accept U.N. Cease Fire

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Wed (A.A.P.).--Both the Arabs and the Jews have accepted the United Nations' Security Council's cease fire order which provides for a four weeks' truce in Palestine. Israel was the first to notify the Security Council of its…

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Says Arabs Observed Cease Fire

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--Although the Iraqi Chief-of-Staff (Safwat. Pasha) claimed in Damascus that the Arab…

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To Set Cease Fire Time

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--As fighting continued in Palestine yesterday the United Nations' Security Council, in renewed efforts to secure the truce to…

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Government Under Fire Canberra Sittings Will Be Lively

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 5

Resumption of the sittings of Federal Parliament in a few days time will certainly also mean a resumption of the concentrated attack upon…

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Greyhound Racing Rose Fire Expected to Atone

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 5

ALTHOUGH Rose Fire was unplaced behind uead-lieaters Lirry Bedford and Tchanner at Grafton on May- 8; sue has shown sufficiently good form in trials since to be conceded' an excellent chance of annexing the event at to-night's fixture, in a smart…

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Fire Destroys Avra Anson Planes

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE; Sun.--A fire? destroyed three Avro Anson planes worth £13,000, at Nhill aerodrome, Western Victoria, late…

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Date Fixed For Cease Fire

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).--War correspondents in Amman, the capital of the Transjordan, say they have reliably learned' that the date for the cease fire in…

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