State Bush Fires
SYDNEY.—Coraki, in northern N.S.W., is being threatened by a disastrous bushfie which has been burning since Friday and which…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Grim Fight in N.S.W. Bushfires
Sydney, September 15.—Dozens of homes in the Sylvania, Woy Woy and Point Clare areas last night were saved from destruction from bush fires, only…
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SYDNEY.—The most picturesque home on the Blue Mountains, Treulyn owned by Mr. Sydney N. Stedman, was gutted by fire…
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SYDNEY.—The Maritime Service fire float Pluvius checked a fire under the decking of No. 7B Wharf, West Circular Quay, just…
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GRAFTON. — Reporting that Grafton was still ringed by bushfires the manager of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Company…
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Sydney, September 16.—Leaving about 50,000 acres of grassland devastated in Ellangowan district, a bush fire of a 15 miles front swept into the Government…
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At 7.38 o'clock last night Central Fire Brigade received a call to 39 Wolfram Street. It was found that electric wires were on fire. The…
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The Central Fire Brigade received a call at 7.38 p.m. yesterday to 39 Wolfram Street where electric wires were on fire. The…
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Pleasant sight in Blende Street is a wattle in full bloom in the yard of the Fire Station. Heavy with buds and giving off its distinctive aroma the tree…
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Sydney, September 20.—Restrictions on the lighting of fires which had been specially imposed last Friday has been repealed. This was announced today by…
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Sydney, September 23—A 22 years old man who escaped in handcuffs from a police car after a brawl at Wynyard railway station on Saturday night was…
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The Central Fire Brigade answered a call from the corner of Bismuth and Cornish Streets at 10.30 yesterday morning. It proved to be a malicious false…
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FOLLOWING the early retirement of Mr. B. Barber, deputy fire chief, theare has been a reshuffle in the top positions of…
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Auckland, September 25.—Three million pounds was lost when a disastrous fire gutted a huge block of buildings at the Royal New Zealand Air Force…
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The Fire Brigade answered two calls from the South yesterday evening, one to a vacant allotment in. Piper Street, and the other to a rubbish de[?]ot…
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While answering a malicious false alarm to the corner of Oxide and Mica Streets a little after 9 o'clock this morning, a…
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Swedish farmers, who recently completed a visit to Britain, spent £20,000 in Scotland alone on cattle with the object of improving the breeds in…
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At 3.40 p.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade answered a call to the rubbish dump in Rakow Street. The blaze was speedily extinguished by…
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Central Fire Brigade was called at 10.30. o'clock this morning through the telephone exchange to a house owned and occupied…
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On Saturday morning a fire engine from the Central Fire Button was involved in a collision with a utility at the corner of Blende and Oxide Streets…
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