Bush Fire Brigade
From Masonite Corporation (Aust.) Ltd. asking Council's approval to the extension of the Bush Fire Brigades area to include the private parish of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
384 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 20
Fire at Bungwahl Sawmill Destroyed
Taree Fire Brigade received a call at 7 a.m. on Tuesday stating that Thompson Bros.' Sawmill was on fire. A later message, at 9 o'clock, stated…
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Rain which seeped through a tarpaulin covering in to a load of eight to ten tons of bagged rock lime set fire to a motor lorry on…
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Members and intending members of the Dartbrook Bush Fire Brigade are reminded that the annual meeting, the unite takes…
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A representative meeting of Maison Dieu residents decided on Monday evening to form a bush fire brigade; and will…
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HONGKONG, Sept. 28 (A.A.P.-Reuter)—Merchants last night estimated that goods valued at £3,000,000 had been lost in a fire in the…
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SYDNEY, Sat — An elderly eccentric, Mrs. Clara Tapping, 72, died shortly after two men had risked their lives to carry her…
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Maitland fire brigade was called to Compton’s timber factory by accidental interference with an electric wire by a linesman working in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Shoestring Defences Chifley Government Under Fire
In the shadow of an uneasy peace, of a fore boding world situation engendered by fear, distrust and certain amount of international pinpricking, Australia's service chiefs last week conferred with their respective Ministrial heads on the nation's defences…
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In the shadow of an [?]asy peace of a foreboding world situation engendered by fear, distrust and a certain amount of international…
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First offering yesterday of goods damaged by the disastrous fire which gutted departments of Singleton and District…
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The annual meeting of the Aberdeen Town and Bush Fire Brigade will be held on Monday next, 4th October, in the…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—Thirty-year-old Len Krause, of West Ipswich, is in hospital suffering from severe burns as a result of…
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Two years research into atomic energy and cosmic rays was totally destroyed when a laboratory of the Physics…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pilot Never Used Fire Fighting Equipment Inquiry Into Plane's Forced Landing Near Yass
The Director-General of Civil Aviation, Air Marshal R. Williams, said in Melbourne last night that he could not understend why the pilot of the Xanana had not used the equipment with which the aircraft was equipped to…
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There was no ground for the feeling which might be abroad that the fire services of Maitland were top be thrown tot the winds and that, if the volunteer firemen did not subscribe to suggestions made, there would be nobody to man…
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Office-bearers elected at the annual general meeting of the Aberdeen Town and Bush Fire Brigade were: President, Mr. A. E. Hardy; captain,…
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The British steamer Takoradian (5452 tons) sank in shallow water in Copenhagen yesterday, when a second outbreak of fire…
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SYDNEY, Friday—The police think that a burglar, who attempted to break into a jewellery store last night, but set off the burglar…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A switchboard fault is believed to have caused the fire which destroyed valuable equipment in the…
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