Stop Press £180,000 Fire
ADELAIDE—Cargo damaged in the freighter Willesden may amount to £180,000. The agents (George Wills and Co. Ltd.) today…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
425 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 22
Vines Scorched by Bushfire
ADELAIDE. — A fire which started in the footbills yesterday threatened to wipe out large vineyards at Magill…
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HAWKER. — While Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ward and their three children were sleeping in the back yard at Hawker, because of the…
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A special meeting of the City Council will be held on Tuesday night next, for the purpose of meeting the Board of Fire…
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There will be a special meeting of the City Council on Tuesday night next at 8 o'clock to meet the members of the Board of Fire Commissioners who will…
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Perth, February 22.—Three hundred firefighters fought desperatery yesterday to bring under control a large bushfire in the Serpentire and Keysbrook…
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PERTH.—A spectacular fire caused £20,000 damage in Horace Hood's hardware store at Victoria Park…
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ADELAIDE—Laden with 44-gallon drums, believed to contain oil, a motor truck caught fire and was almost destroyed on Mount Barker…
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ADUSTMENTS will be necessary under the new Fire Brigades' Award. It will actually mean additional staff in…
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Adelaide, February 24.—Further fires occurred today when Adelaide recorded its sixth thermometer century in the shade for the summer. In the hilly…
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ADELAIDE. — A spnrk from a bath-heater flue which ignited n bird's nest built near the roof guttering, is believed to be thc cause…
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A special meeting of the City Council was held last night to meet the Board of Fire Commissioners. Present were Aldermen Riddiford, Lunam, Ryan, Barness Warren, Dial, Palmer, Orum, Mann, and the Town Clerk, Mr. C. Crowley…
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Sydney, February 24.—Minister for External Territories (Mr. E. J. Ward) denied in the Special Federal Court today that he had a banking account in the name of Edward James Brooks. Mr. Ward was being cross-examined in the case in…
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BURRA. — After destroying at least 500 sheep, 30 to 40 miles of fencing and lands for an area of 18 by six miles, Burra bush fire is…
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Adelaide, February 25.—According to advice from Burra, a bush fire in that area has laid waste over 100 square miles and destroyed more than 500…
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LONDON, Feb. 26.— Prague police today fired on students who were marching to the…
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MR. E. C. Griffiths (recently appointed chief officer of the Fire Brigade) came up the hard way. He has risen from the ranks…
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The Chief Secretary Mr. Baddeley has issued a warning that the fire danger in many parts of New South Wales made it imperative for every…
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Damage estimated at £8000 was caused by a bushfire which swept through more than 10 square miles of farmland in the Burra district in South…
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TWO hundred square miles of country% ere burned in last month's bushfires, the Stock Inspector (Mr. J. E. Cantello) revealed in his report to the Pastures Protection Board meeting: yesterday…
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