Truman’s Aid Bill Under Fire In House Of Reps
WASHINGTON, May 9. — President Truman’s Bill to aid Greece and Turkey survived several major tests in the House of Representatives yesterday when the measure…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
359 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 18
Bush Fires Control
"Another question which will figure prominently in our discussions is bush fire control," he said. "The Shires are anxious that the responsibility for…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Leslie Clive Cronan, 31, labourer, was sentenced at Wollongong to nine mouths’ imprisonment on charges…
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ROME, May 15.—Twenty bodies have been recovered from the offices of the Minerva film company following a fire which gutted the building. Two heavy explosions followed the fire, which raged…
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SINGLETON;, Friday. — The Board of Fire Commissioners, submitting statements of revenue and expenditure of Singleton Fire…
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A number of people assembled in the police station yard on Wednesday evening to witness a fire. As it happened, the conflagration was…
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NEW TORE (Associated Press)— Estimated fire losses in the United States soared to a record high of 72,435,000 dollars (£22.000,000) in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fourteen Arrests After Fire
[?] [?] film Company following their crisis that the fire on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Early Morning Blaze at Gunnedah
Two shops were destroyed and a wing of a hotel was badly damaged in a fire that broke out in Gunnedah early to-day…
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NEW DELHI, May 19.— Fire raisers yesterday again attacked the gram market at Lahore, forced open several shops, stripped them of all fittings and set them blazing. There were a [?] major…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Troops Stand by Ready for Action in Lahore Police Fire When Incendiary Bombs Are Thrown
BOMBAY, May 23.—Night curfews are to continue in the Punjab’s walled city of Lahore, where, following days of tragic communal rioting, a battalion of Ghurkhas and 700 men of the Inniskillen Regiment are ready for heavy action…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pensioner Loses Life in Attic Fire at Enmore
SYDNEY, Friday.—Panic-stricken and blinded by flames, an invalid pensioner was asphyxiated in his smoke-filled a[?]ic bedr oom this morning. He was Ernest Collins, 50, who lived in a tiny att[?] in Juliet-street, Enmore. The police believe that the fire…
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Two British officers were killed in a big fire which razed the officers' mess of the British Commonwealth Air Group at Iwakuni, Southern…
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TOKIO, May 26.—Two British officers were killed in a big fire which razed the officers’ mess of the British Commonwealth air group at Iwakuni, in southern Japan, early yesterday. Their names and the country…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Firemen Run Risks at Garage Fire
SYDNEY , Tuesday—Fireman had to run tho risk, of injury from battery acid and fumes when they fought a are which…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.—A thief who broker into a house at Spotswood yesterday lit fires in several rooms and…
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NEW YORK (Associated Press): New York City Fire Commissioner Frank J. Quayle has sent to about 50 fire chiefs…
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Humorous anecdotes of fire fighting in the early days were related by the Mayor (Ald. H. T. Skilton) at the firemen’s social…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday:—A fire “In a Coots hill residential was subject of a case in the Quarter Sessions to-day before judge nield and…
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Speaking at a presentation to a retiring volunteer fireman, Third Officer R. Currer, of New South Wales Fire Brigades, said that the board would…
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