V.D.C. Under Fire. Realistic Battle Exercises. F. Company's Good Showing
A large number of citizens viewed the battle exercises carried out by V.D.C. platoons from Muswellbrook, Denman and Merriwa on…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
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Bush Fire Warning Issued
SYDNEY Wed.—A bush fire warning was issued by the State Meteorologist to-day. He said that increasing…
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Tarro Shire Council was advised to-day that the following officers had been elected to Beresfield Bush Fire Brigade :…
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SAN FRANCISCO March 28—Police blame an incendiarist for the tragic fire in the New Amsterdam Hotel…
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SAN FRANCISCO March 28— Twenty-one persons were fatally burned and 22 severely injured early to-day when a fire swept…
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The San Francisco police blame an incendiarist for a tragic fire in the New Amsterdam Hotel on Monday night, which resulted in the death of…
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Increasing temperatures, with squally northerly winds, together with rain absence, are expected to result in conditions over northern…
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INNISFAIL, Friday.—When a low-level bridge over the South Johnstone River, four miles from Innisfail, was damaged by fire…
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SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA Saturday—Allied heavy bombers carried out another heavy assault on Truk in the Caroline Islands, on Wednesday. The attack was concentrated on Dublon Island, and…
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HARDEN, Monday—About 15,000 acres of country was devastated yesterday by a bush fire which travelled about 15 miles…
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LONDON April 2.—Five babies, four of them boys, died in a fire in a Surrey house, which had been converted by the Ministry of…
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Two outbreaks of fire occurred on Sunday last—one at South Cessnock and the other in the Aberdare district. A fairly large area of scrub land was…
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A combined meeting of Aberdare, Aberdare Extended, Abermain No. 2, and Cessnock, No. 2 lodges was addressed by executive officers of the Miners's…
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Five babies died in a fire at a Surrey (Eng.) house which had been converted by the Health Ministry into a temporary maternity home for…
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He had been disturbed to hear that some people were under the erroneous impression that lighted cigar or cigarette butts would not start a bush fire…
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When last seen the German battleship, Von Tirpitz, which was attacked recently in Norway, was afire amidships after two strikes from aircraft,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Pastor E. B. Rudge, president of the Australian Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists, and…
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SYDNEY Monday—Serious damage to the State pine plantation at Mt. Macedori was averted by fire fighters, who worked…
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West Maitland Fire Brigade was called this morning to extinguish a fire which had started among grass and rubbish on the…
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CESSNOCK Wed.— A grass fire broke out in an area adjacent to Darwin-st., Cessnock, this morning, but was checked by the fire…
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