Slight Fire At South Mine
On Sunday morning the regular patrol at the South mine noticed an emission of smoke in some old workings at the 1.370 level. The regular fire lighting…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
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Fire Brigade Hits Back At Military
BRISBANE. — Innisfail's (N.Q.) fire brigade has refused to Supply a military unit with water until the commanding officer takes action to…
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Two young children who were i[?] bed with measles at a Wyman Lane house were trapped by flames when fire broke out there this afternoon…
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The Central Fire Brigade received a call at 3.32 p.m. on Saturday to 406 Wyman Lane to a stone cottage of five rooms, occupied by Walter Henry Plane…
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Water curtains, over the affected area had been extended and the workings sealed, said Mr. F. N. Thomas, superintendent of the South mine,…
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With regard to the fire discovered at the South Mal[?] in cld working on the 1,370 level on Sunday, November [?]. I was stated that water curtains over the…
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District Fire Officer. G. Gilmour, who is in charge of the Broken Hill Fire Bribade, has been transferred to Pyrmont. Sydney. He will take over from District…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cane Fibre Fire
SYDNEY.—It is believed that it will take several weeks before a fire which broke out yesterday in a stack of 32,000 tales of megass or cane fibre…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Palais Dance for Fire Brigade Queen
For several weeks the local firemen have been busy preparing and organising for an outstanding dance function. They have been held up…
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MISS Phyllis Corney, charming young Western Districts Queen in the Fire Brigades Queen contest in aid of the Anzac House appeal,…
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Central Fire Brigade received a call at 2.50 a.m. today to 196 Oxide Street, premises occupied by Mr. R. Burns. Smoke and fumes were in the…
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The Fire Brigade is running a Gymkhana on the Western Oval on Sunday. The Aid to Russia Gymkhana has been postponed indefinitely, not till Sunday…
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Smoke and fumes coming from an electric refrigerator, which had overheated and set fire to the insulation in premises at 196 Oxide Street occupied…
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The City Council will extend an official welcome this evening to Miss Phyllis Corney, of Lithgow, who has been selected as the Western Districts…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Brigade Queen Has Radio Ambitions
To have her own session on the radio is one of the greatest ambitious of Miss Phyllis Corney. New South Wales Fire Brigades' Queen in the State-wide…
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For several weeks members of the local Fire Brigade, headed by District Officer G. Gilmour, have been making preparations for a social function in…
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An official welcome on behalf of the City Council was given last night in the Mayoral Chambers to the visiting Western Districts Queen in…
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Sydney, November 16.—Bushfires in the Blue Mountains and Sydney's outer suburbs which momentarily had died down blazed afresh today and became…
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SYDNEY.—It is now revealed that William Edwards (50), pig farmer, who was badly burned yesterday when his homestead at Menai was…
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To help swell the funds for the Fire Brigade Anzac House Queen Appeal a sports carnival has been arranged for the Western Oval tomorrow…
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