Burnt to Death in Farm Fire
TAMWORTH Wednesday. — Thomas Brad , 72, caretaker of West Grove homestead, 22 miles from Menilla, was burnt to death…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Bush Fire Brigade
RAYMOND TERRACE .— The Masonite Corporation informed Port Stephen Shire Council that it had formed at bushfire brigade…
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In our report of the annual meeting of the above, a typographical error occurred which probably conveyed the impression that Cr. A. E…
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Mr. Jack Payne, of the Strand Theatre, received the sad news yesterday that a fire had completely gutted the Rivoli Theatre, Blacktown…
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Asleep in their blazing house at Grcenridge, near Casino, a mother and her three children were saved from possible death when a passer-by…
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The clerk reported to Port Stephens Shire Council that the five engine had arrived, Councillors made an Inspection or it…
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Rush Fire danger will be [?] by warm weather form now and to-day the first [?]of the season was quickly master all…
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Five persons were killed and several injured, including four seriously, when a fire broke out on board American liner Kristina…
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A Fire Brigade has been formed at Raymond Terrace. Recently a fire engine was supplied by the Fire Brigade Board and already a number of young…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Success Of Nationalists In China “Cease Fire” Order Discussed
NANKING, October 15. — The Chinese Government would issue a “cease fire” order if the Communist would do likewise, declared Dr. Sun Fo, president of the Legislative Yuan (Council)…
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A bomb developed by the R.A.A.F., which could extinguish fires, might be used to combat Victorian bushfires this year, said an R.A.A.F…
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Early this morning a fire broke out in a lock-up shop at 98 George street. East Maitland, occupied by Mr. T. J. Walsh, boot,…
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The fire at Woolworth’s last month prompted Maitland City Council to make inquires from the Board of Tire Commissioners in regard to water pressure in High-st The Commissioners, is a letter to council last night,…
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CASINO Thursday.— Damage estimated at £16,000 was done by a fire which destroyed the sawmill at mailanganee, 26 miles…
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Representations will be made by Kearsley Council to the Fire Commissioner to have a suitable Fire Station erected at Bellbird…
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Damage estimated at £15,000 was dene, by a fire which destroyed the sawmill at Mallanganee, 26 miles from Casino. The sawmill was one…
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The bodies of Donald Watson, aged eight, and John Bloomfield, aged nine, both of Darley Street, Newtown, were found in the…
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SYDNEY, FridayâLate yesterday afternoon the bodies of two boys were found in the debtis of a fire which gutted a building at St. Peters. The victims were Donald…
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LONDON Oct 19.—Tribesmen crouching behind rocks and scrub on hills in the North-west Frontier province opened fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day’s Leader: The Golden Age ! Horrible Tales Of Murder And Torture In India Moslem “Avengers” Fire Villages -- Assault Women
CALCUTTA, October 21. —Refugees continue to pour from stricken areas of India, bringing horrible tales of murder, torture and indescribable assaults on women, says the British United Press correspondent, who arrived at Comilla by air after flying over…
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