Police Searching For Fire Bug
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police are searching for a firebug who yesterday tried to burn down a house in which a man was sleeping in Grove…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
384 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 20
Fire Brigade Attends Two Small Fires
Two small fires occupied the attention of Maitland Fire Brigade yesterday and to-day. At 5.30 a.m. yesterday the brigade…
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A fire which had been smouldering for two months burst out again yesterday in cotton stocks at the Commonwealth…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Two racehorses, valued at £1500, who bolted from Gordon Stewart’s racing stables at Caulfield during…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Bales of cotton salvaged from the £750,000 fire which almost destroyed the Commonwealth Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day’s Leader: Government By Junta Council’s Cease Fire Order in Palestine Arab Forces Converging On Tel Aviv
LONDON, May 31.—As the United Nations Security Council weighs the outcome of its call on the Jews and Arabs to cease fighting in Palestine for four weeks, Arab forces are reported to be converging on Tel Aviv, provisional…
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A small hayshed and contents at the rear of premises occupied by Mr. Noel Barber, of Robert-st, Tenambit, were severely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Government Under Fire. Canberra Sittings Will Be Lively
Resumption of the sittings of Federal Parliament in a few days' time will certainly also mean a resumption of the concentrated attack upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Canberra Notes Government Under Fire Canberra Sittings Will Be Lively
Resumption of the sittings of Federal Parliament in a few days time will certainly also mean a resumption of the concentrated attack upon the Government which has been a feature of the Opposition's policy in recent months. Several issues which have been coming to a head will be raised in the sittings,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Under Fire Canberra Sitting Will Be Lively.[From a Political Correspondent in Canberra]
Resumption of the sittings of Federal Parliament in a few days' time will certainly also mean a resumption of the concentrated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →And Jews Accept Cease Fire Order Security Council Calls For Four Week’s Truce
LAKE SUCCESS June 2. — Both Arabs and Jews United Nations cease fire order, which provides for a four week’s truce in Palestine Israel was the first to notify the Security Council of its acceptance, and the Arab…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two men had a narrow escape from serious injury when hundreds of gallons of paint exploded…
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Fire severely damaged a large slab and iron shed on the property of Mr. George Jenkins, Oakhampton-rd., Oakhampton, early last…
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LAKE SUCCESS (New York), June 3. — As fighting continued in Palestine yesterday the United Nations Security Council, in renewed efforts to secure the truce to which both the Arab states and Israel earlier agreed, appointed its Palestine mediator, Count…
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A Supreme Court jury on Wednesday awarded £10,063 damages against the Commissioner for Railways for bush fire damage caused by a locomotive…
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U.N.O. mediator. Count Bernadotte. who has been instructed to fix the day and the hour for righting to cense in Palestine, is still flying between various mid-East capitals and consulting Arabs and Jew leaders…
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SYDNEY, Saturday. —Larrikins are believed to have thrown a hurricane, lamp which set fire to a stationary utility truck in…
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Abermain fireman ex[?]nguished a fire under the chassis of a Rover Motors double decker bus on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fighting Attack Gave Singleton Victory B Grade Footballers Pulled Match Out of Fire
Down six points to nil at half time, and apparently not making much impression on the opposition, Singleton's B…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day’s Leader: Assessing The Future Palestine Cease Fire Set for Thursday Bernadotte Clarifying Conditions
LONDON, June 7.—War correspondents in Amman, capital of Transjordan, says they have reliably learned that the date for the cease fire in Palestine has been fixed far next Thursday…
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