Fire Officers Start New Hours
Sydney, October 1.—Without approval from the Fire Board, New South Wales Fire Brigades officers began working only 56 hours instead of 84 hours a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Fire Officers Enforce 56 Hour Week
Fire officers throughout the State have started working 56 hours a week, the same as the firemen…
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A new fire motor for the Central Fire Station is expected to arrive by the week-end. Station Officer-V. Dolman has been…
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Canberra, October 1.—Senator Amour <Lab., N.S.W.), already under fire in Parliament for actions in San Francisco, was again criticised in the House of…
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Advice nan been received by Officer V. Dolman that a new are engine for Central Station will arrive here within a few days. The engine has already…
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Managua Nicaragua, October 2.—Sixteen persons were burned to death and many injured when fire destroyed the "Treatro Margot," a leading film theatre…
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Sydney. October 2.—Two meeting of Fire Brigade Officers in Sydney today decided to resume working normal eighty four hours a week rosters at 8 a.m…
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State Fire Brigade officers returned to their 84 hours a week roster yesterday. This followed a decision made…
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Sydney. October 3.—Fire brigade officers resumed r[?]ties in accordance with the normal roster this morning. The decision to resume followed a conference…
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The Central Fire Brigade received two calls over the week-end. The first was at 9.53 p.m. Saturday, and was to a rubbish fire at the Globe Timber Mills…
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A new fire motor arrived at the Central Fire Station this morning. The motor is similar to the old one but has the…
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To dispute that involves the hours of work of Fire Officers in this State hus assumed proportions that are serious when over 200 fire officers will be on…
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The new Fire Engine for Central Fire Station arrived this morning, and is now at Central Station. The new engine has a solid appearance. It differs…
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NEWCASTLE.—Officers attached to the Newcastle and suburban fire stations walked out at 10.30 a.m. today while a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Troops Fire on Armed Crowds Rioting In East Punjab
New Delhi, October 7.—Troops fired on armed crowds of Moslems, Hindus, and Sikhs in the Hissar district of East Punjab. Military reports say that forty were killed and many injured in rioting and as a result of military action…
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Sydney, October 7.—More than two hundred Fire Brigade officers at seventy-five metropolitan and twenty-two country stations were instructed by…
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SYDNFY—Pending the outcome of a conference today with the Chief Secretary (Mr. Buddeley) and the Board…
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Sydney, October 8.—Premier McGirr conferred tonight with officials of the Fire Brigade Officers' Association in an effort to end a strike started today…
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Sydney, October 9.—Negotiations to-day failed to reach a settlement of the strike by more than 200 Fire Brigade officers in N.S.W. Secretary of the Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ten Negroes Killed In Tenement Fire Police And Firemen Attribute Blaze To Arson
Chicago, October 10.—Six children and four women were killed and over twelve persons injured early today in a tenement fire which police attributed to arson. All were negros in a building that housed a hundred. Fire Commissioner, Michael…
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