Council Notified About Local Fire Brigade Changes
AT the monthly meeting of the City Council last night a communication dated September 28 was received from the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
349 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 14 of 18
Court Sequel to Fire at Price Officer's Home; A UegedHostileWitness
ADELAIDE.—After the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Chamberlain) had been granted permission to crossexamine him because of his hostile attitude, Maurice William Noble, laborer, said in the Adelaide Police…
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NEW YORK, October 25.—Ten out of a family of 11 at Easthampton (Connecticut) were burnt to death when an oil…
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Adelaide, October 25.—A man admitted in the Adelaide Police Court today to having set fire to a home of the Deputy Prices Commissioner. Mr…
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Children playing with matches caused a fire in the laundry of a house occupied by Mr. George McFarlane at 195 Newton Street…
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The homestead of Mr. P. D. Jackson, at Gum Vale, was completely destroyed by five while Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were…
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SYDNEY.—Loud-speaker announcements broadcast over the nine floors of the building reassured customers when a fire…
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MELBOURNE. — An Australian soldier was killed and another injured in trying to save…
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A squad of Council workmen over the last couple of days has been busy resurfacing the sloping entrance to the Central Fire Station. The old asphalt…
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Both engines from the Central Fire Station turned out yesterday afternoon in answer to a needless alarm. Residents of the…
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Yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock a rubbish fire at the old north rubbish dump caused a so[?]first exciting interlude for resident. Some residents early…
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The South Fire Brigade was called to the City Council's Rakow. Street rubbish dump at 9.44 a.m. today to extinguish a…
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LONDON, October 30.—A young Jewess, described as the "Girl in Red," was the main attacker in tonight's Jewish railway station bomb outrage. Reuter's Jerusalem correspondent says that the…
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At 9.44 yesterday morning the South Fire Brigade answered a call to the City Council's rubbish dump in Rakow Street…
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SYDNEY. — A fire which severely damaged a fibro plaster factory containing 8,000 cocoanut fobre mattresses at Belmore last…
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London, November. 3.—Seven fire engines at Traddord Park last night fought the biggest fire ever seen in Manchester area, spraying a lake of…
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Sydney, November 3.—Homes were shaken at Leichhardt early this morning when drums of petrol, benzine, oil, kero and paint exploded in an…
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Several complaints have been received at the Broken Hill Police Sation regarding persons going outback, lighting camp…
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A motor cycle caught alight at the corner of Oxide and Chapple Streets today while the rider was trying to start it. It…
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SYDNEY. — Drums of petrol, benzine, kerosene, and paint exploded and shook dozens of houses when fire swept through an…
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