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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
216 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 11
NEW YORK, Sunday: The Provisional Government of Israel has ordered the Jewish Forces on all fronts in Palestine to obey the U.N.O. order to case fire at 3 a.m. Tuesday (Australian time), but the Arab forces may disregard it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Goulburn Fire Brigade answered two false alarms and two chimney fires over the weekend. The first chimney fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Monday: The United Nations deadline for cease fire in Palestine-fixed for 8. p.m. Palestine time last night (4 a.m. today Sydney time) passed without any official word of acceptance or rejection from the Arab States. Shortly after the deadline,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Harry Mead, veteran fireman, who has retired from active service after 33 years, is now the proud wearer of three red stripes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Yass Fire Brigade is an exclusive, closely knit body of men. Fire fighting runs in families and the Yass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAKE SUCCESS, Wed: Avoiding an outright rejection of the United Nations' ease fire" appeal for Palestine, the Arab League late yesterday notified the Security Council that it has appointed a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire destroyed a ton of firewood and charred a fence at the rear of 354 Auburn Street yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Tuesday: Arub forces in Palestine are reported to be burning the Jewish Old City of Jerusalem which they captured last week, According to reports reaching British military source in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A quantity of sugar, was destroyed in a small blaze at the bulk store of Mackaness and Avery Pty. Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An electric radiator is believed to have started a fire in a Crookwell bulk store last Friday. The fire broke out in a stack of sugar in the store of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LAKE SUCCESS, Tues.: Both Arabs and Jews have accepted the United Nations Security Council's "case fire" order which provides for a four weeks truce in Palestine. Israel was the first to notify the Security Council of its acceptance and the Arab States' decision followed some hours later…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Goulburn Fire Brigade last night answered a call to a fire at the rear of the gas works. Rubbish and spent coal caught…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LAKE SUCCESS, Wed.: As fighting continued in Palestine yesterday, the United Nations Security Council in renewed efforts to secure the truce to which both the Arab States and Israel earlier agreed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SINGAPORE, Friday (A.A.P.-Reuter): "Blundering, tactless, unreasonable, harsh and provocative" were the adjectives applied today to the Australian Minister for Immigration, Mr. Calwell, in the newspaper, Straits Times, which, has, the ,largest circulation in Malaya…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Traffic on the Hume Highway at Gundagai' was blocked for two" hours on Thursday night last, following a collision between a big semi-trailer transport and a car says the Guidagal Independent." When the vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday: War correspondents in Amman, the capital of Transjordan, say they have reliably learned that the date for the cease fire in Palestine has been fixed for next Thursday. Reuters correspondent, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY: Valuable antique furniture, some of it 300 years old, was destroyed when a fire gutted the second floor of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thursday: The fighting men of the Arab Legion have been ordered to cease fire in Palestine at 8 a.m. local time tomorrow, a Transjoran communique issued in Amman announces. This follows the official acceptance yesterday by both the Jews and Arabs of four weeks' truce proposals for the Holy Land submitted to them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prompt action by a Goulburn woman in throwing burning clothing into the street averted a serious fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE: Mud choked the hoses of firemen, fighting the biggest fire in Clermont's history. A hotel and six shops were…
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