Fire Brigade Calls
During the year just ended, fire brigades w the Maitland. . City area received 38 calls, of which 16: were only grass fires. Tbhre…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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Grandstand Catches Fire
The entire centre section of the wooden "hill" stand at Flemington racecourse was destroyed by fire which began…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—It is now estimates that the fire which destroyed the old wooden grandstand on “the bill at Flemington…
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A fire which almost completely destroyed the Post Office Hotel at Jerry's Plains occurred in the early hours of the…
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SYDNEY Friday—Thomas [?] 30, last night ran into a burning house in Barker-street, Casino to es[?]his sleeping seven-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Greek Rebels Set Fire To Railway Station
ATHENS, January 3.—The Greek Government has announced that rebel forces, in short raids, set fire to a railway station in Kilkis, 30 miles north-east of Salonika. The rebels blew up a goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Fire at Golf Club
SYDNEY, Wed.—Police inquiries into a fire at the West Wyalong Golf Club house, in which a 72-year-old -man was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Development in Wyalong Fire Inquiry Wandering Man Arrested
There was a dramatic development yesterday in police inquiries into a fire at the West Wyalong Golf Club…
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Using a chemical extinguisher, an officer of Maitland Ambulance quelled a fire on a motor cycle in front of the ambulance station. In…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shoot ‘Valley of Fire’ in Australia
HOLLYWOOD, Jan: 8.—Film producer parry Sherman said to-day he would shoot a picture, “The Valley of Fire,” in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Fire District
CESSNOCK, Wed. — She Chief Secretary (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) advised Cessnock Council that it request for the reclassification of…
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Thirty-nine year old laborer. Lloyd Fleming, was charged at West Wyalong police station this morning with having murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burning Off in the Sire Permits From District Bush Fire Brigades
With the prolific growth of grass and all kinds of herbage in the Upper Hunter at the present time, the danger of serious outbreaks of bushfires cannot be overlooked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jewish Plane Fires on Raf Aircraft Fierce Fighting Between Arabs and Jews at Hebron
JERUSALEM, January 16 It is officially revealed that Jewish plane yesterday fired on an RAAF aircraft over Hebron area, where fierce fighting between Arab and Jewish forces broke out at drawn on Wednesday…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—When fire broke out in a giant igloo-type building in South Brisbane last night, damage estimated at…
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SINGAPORE Jan. 20. (AAP-Reuter).—A fie, which raged for 22 hours, considerably, damaged the Dutch ship Bredero,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grass Growth Is Fire Hazard
The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, has issued a warning that the present amazingly prolific growth of grass in many parts…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Forestry rangers claim that a fire bug deliberately caused extensive, bushfires over the Otway ranges…
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"It is quite evident that if the hot weather continues we will have bush fires," said Cr. A. C. Marshall (president) at the…
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Queenstown, centre of the Mt. Lyell mining operations in Tasmania, is reported to have been encircled by bushfires. Thick smoke covered the town…
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