Fire
In a disastrous fire on Thursday night Mr. and Mrs. Jack Watson lost their home and all personal belongings…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Train Collision Severe Damage: No Lives Lost Fire Brigade Fights Fire (By Wire) Sydney
A message from Brisbane states:—Three people were slightly injured when an excursion train from Emu Park ran into a mixed train bound for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rioting in Greece Police Station Set on Fire Civilians Ambushed and Killed (By Wire) Sydney
A message from Athens states:—Sporadic, but deadly fighting has again flared up in Greece. In the past 24 hours 27 people have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Commissioners Visit Forbes Local Firemen Presented with Awards Efficiency of Local Service Praised
"IT has always been the practice of the Board to maintain the closest possible contact with volunteer fire brigades spread all over New South Wales," said the Hon. T. J. Smith, president of the Board of Fire Commissioners, when he visited…
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Last Monday morning as the staff of John Meagher and Co. Pty. Ltd. of Barmedman were opening up the premises for the commencement of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Fighters Condobolin Fire Brigade Members Honoured
We take our fire brigades for granted. They have always been with us, and we rest more soundly at night because we know if…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Timber Fires MacLEAY District Aflame 50 Mile Frontage (By Wire) SYDNEY
Practically the whole of the Upper Macleay district is a raging [?] The fire is raging in one of the most heavily timbered portions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Prevention Week To Commence Nov. 18
On November 18, 1948, His Royal Highness, the Governor General, will issue a public statement calling upon the citizens of Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Months' Gaol for Open Fires
Heavy penalties of £100 fine and/or six months' imprisonment are provided for breaches of the restrictions on the lighting of fires ill the open in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Menace Op Bush Fires Chief Secretary's Appeal
Reported outbreaks of bush fires last summer totalled 223 and the total estimated damage from these fires was £71,000. In 1944-45 the estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Uses Wine to Extinguish Fire Homestead Destroyed Tractor and Farm Equipment Saved
A man who claimed he had saved about £1000 worth of property and farm equipment, when a homestead was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hoard of Fire Arms Found
Sufficient, arms and explosives to a small arsenal were confise[?] ed by detectives in a series of swift raids from ramps in heavily wooded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girls' School Under Fire Overcrowded Classrooms Teachers' Difficulties
If we are also going to have ultra-modern school. buildings and classrooms in addition to better educational equipment and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires in Large U.S.A HOTELS 138 Persons Believed to be Dead (By Wire) Sydney
A message from Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) states: At least eleven persons were killed and eighteen injured, when the Hotel Barry caught afire in the early hours of the morning…
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Despite the absence of grass and crops in Bland Shire, several of the Bush Fire Brigades have continued to function during the drought, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Station 2Pk Destroyed by Fire
Radio Station 2PK, Parkes, was destroyed by fire about 11.35 on Monday night of last week. Two engineers, Messrs. D. J. Allen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grain and Eggs Disastrous Fires in U.S.A. and Canada
A New York message, on Sunday, reported that a million bushels of grain were destroyed by fire in a grain elevator in Minniapolos. At current prices…
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