Burnt-Out Lamp Tubes Should Be Destroyed
Burnt-out fluorsecent lamp tubes should rot be used for such purposes as towel rails, and care must be taken to…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
158 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 8
Lighthouse Not on Fire
There was no foundation for the rumor, current at Coffs yesterday, that the Solitary Island lighthouse was on fire. When…
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At lunch time on Wednesday a fire broke out at the premises of Coffs Harbour Dry Cleaners in High Street, while all were,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A motor assembly plant completed only a few weeks ago, and 200 new cars and trucks, were destroyed in a £200,000 blaze at Waterloo early this morning. The building had taken two…
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Commenting on bushfire warnings issued in parts of. the State, the Pastures Protection Board Inspector (Mr. G. Hanlon) said…
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A special warning was issued yesterday by Inspector W. O. McEwan to campers and others of the dangers of fires,…
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LONDON, Wed. (AAP).--As dawn broke over London to-day, smoke-blackened firemen were still fighting the city's worst…
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LONDON, Thurs. (AAP).--The Covent Garden fire was finally extinguished after 33 hours. In all 850 firemen, drawn from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Alarm Startles Christmas Shoppers
PEOPLE streamed from the crowded business premises in Prince street, Grafton, yesterday afternoon, when the Grafton Fire Station siren wailed its warning of fire. In charge of Station Officer…
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BRISBANE, Fri.--Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused when a Jondaryan service station was completely gutted by…
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KATOOMBA, Monday.--Norman Matthews rescued his 70-year-old mother and 81-year-old blind father from fierce bushfires at Mt. Boyce to-day. When a great wall of flames…
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WAGGA, Tuesday--In a spectacular blaze late this afternoon, an army building stores and equipment, valued at approximately £100,000, were destroyed…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--To combat the growing bush fire danger in heat-stricken inland areas, special conditions in regard to the lighting of certain classes of fires have been extended, to the whole of the State, exclusive of the coastal region between the…
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HOLLYWOOD, Thurs. (AAP),--Loretta Young and her three "young children Were' among fashionable film' personalities…
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BANYABBA.--Forestry employees had a busy time over the [?]ay period. The fire engine, "La France," stationed at the…
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LISMORE, Thurs.-- A dairy farmer and his wife are in the Lismore Base 'Hospital in a critical condition as the result…
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TOKIO, Thurs. (AAP-Reuter)--Five persons were burned to death and 17 firemen injured to-day in a fire in the heart of…
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WARWICK, Thurs.--Over 300 sheep perished and 4000 acres. of grass and timberland were burnt out in a bushfire…
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