Fire Brigade Theft Investigation
Sydney, August 26.—Detectives Investigating the theft of the £1.222 payroll from Fire Brigade Headquarters, made a widespread search today for…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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Fire Brigade Calls
Yesterday morning at 7.12 o'clock the Fire Brigade was called to 228 Rowe Street. The trouble was a chimney fire, which was put out…
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Sydney.—Hundreds of office workers had narrow escapes from injury when a fire swept through the upper floors of Rawson Chambers near the Central Railway Station shortly before 9 a.m. today…
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Mildura.—Claude Clayton Simmons, 49, laborer, of Cliffside, near Red Cliffs, was fatally burned when a three-roomed shack in…
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Sydney, August 31.—Fire gutted two top floors of Rowson Chambers, City, opposite Central Railway Station, shortly before 9 a.m. today, forcing hundreds of occupants to flee for their lives. Squads of police locked hands and forcibly kept…
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Two fires were attended by the Central Fire. Brigade yesterday. The first call was received at 4.5 p.m. to the rear of premises in…
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Sydney.—Hearing of the dispute over Sydney's tram services was adjourned because some Tramways Union documents were destroyed…
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Adelaide, September 2.—A fire broke out in the No. 2 held of the 10.000 ton Greek ship. Atlantic Air, at Port Adelaide tonight. The vessel had arrived…
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Central Fire Brigade received a call At 6.38 p.m. yesterday that there was a grass fire in the vicinity of the old South racecourse…
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Central and South Fire Brigades were called to a large grass fire at 6.38 p.m. yesterday. The fire was. in the regeneration area near the…
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London, September 6.—Chinese war lord, Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang (68), known to the world as "The Christian General" and in China…
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Sydney.—It took 100 police, firemen and civilians 10 hours to combat a bushfire which menaced five houses in Helensburgh Valley, on…
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London, September 10.—A fifteen-year-old German boy was fatally wounded and at least five other Germans are in hospital with bullet wounds as a result of wild scenes on the border…
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London, September 12.—A huge fire In Amsterdam has destroyed millions of pounds worth of meat, butter, and eggs, and…
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Melbourne.—Fire destroyed St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Gillies and Duncan Streets. Fairfield, early this…
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A small fire broke out in No. 1 change-room at the North mine about 4 o'clock this morning. About 30 lockers and contents were…
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One of the few men to capsize a fire engine and escape unhurt is Mr. F. Pickering, retired Fire Brigade officer of N.S.W., who is visiting Broken Hill…
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Sparks flying from electric light wires in Chapple Street, near Brazil Street, brought out the Central Fire Brigade, engine at 2.15…
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32 lockers and clothing contents were severely damaged when a fire broke out in the No. 1 change room at the North Mine about 4 o'clock yesterday…
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Sydney, September 15.—An amendment of the law in regard to the height of buildings is proposed, the Acting Premier (Mr. Baddeley) said today…
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