Fires
Many years ago when motor cars were new fangled contraptions the late Wm. O'Meara bought one in Sydney and, remarking to the salesman that…
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Fires & bushfires, 1945
64 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 4
Man-made Fires Councillor Wants It Pinned Down
After he had said that he had nothing to bring forward in question time at yesterday's meeting of Macleay Shire Council, Cr. Conn spoke…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ruhr Like Sea of Fire Latest Cables and Telegrams. The "Macleay Argus" is a subscriber to the Australian Associated Press, which provides the overseas news in this issue. Ablaze End to End 50,000 Prisoners in Last 24 Hours Cutting Off Germans in Holland London
The complete cutting off of the big German pocket in western Holland seems a matter of hours, with Montgomery's troops threatening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sawmill Destroyed Fire at Frederickton
Messrs. R. J. Jamieson & Sons' steam sawmill at Frederickton was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday last. The mill had not been working for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Berlin Under Fire of Soviet Guns Latest Cables and Telegrams. The "Macleay Argus" is a subscriber to the Australian Associated Press, which provides the overseas news in this issue. Hamburg Battle Opened Dusseldorf, Magdeburg Taken Becoming Fierce, Says Tokio London
Coincident with a Paris radio report that Berlin is under fire from the Russian artillery, Berlin admits that "the scene of grim fighting" has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Precautions
Regulations recently gazetted require all farmers to fit spark arrestors to the exhausts of motor tractors, power driven harvesters or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Control of Forest Fires Wireless Sets Tested
Recent tests in the Coff's Harbour district with a special type of wireless receiver and transmitter, which has lately been acquired by the NSW…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arson Suspected Fire at Macksville
What is believed to have been a deliberate attempt to burn down the Macksville School of Arts was made on Thursday night. Fortunately, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tokio Scorched to the Ground Latest Cables and Telegrams. The "Macleay Argus" is a subscriber to the Australian Associated Press, which provides the overseas news in this issue. City Will Have to Be Re-built Gale Spreads Raiders' Fires War of Attrition on Okinawa New York
So badly has Tokio been damaged by the American "fire bomb" raids, including Friday's great assault, to which a 70 mph gale put the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stop Press Cease Fire French Order in Syria 300 Killed in Damascus London
An order to the French troops in Syria and Lebanon to cease fire was issued last night by the GOC of the French forces in the Levant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Precautions Against Bush Fires
The Wingham Council had before it on Tuesday night a communication regarding the need for taking every safeguard against the destruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Night Nurses Now, Where Will They Sleep? a Fire That Seemed Providential
If ever there was a sentence of censureship upon the hospitals administration of this State, or upon the local board of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Capture Of Tarakan Completed Latest Cables and Telegrams. The "Macleay Argus" is a subscriber to the Australian Associated Press, which provides the overseas news in this issue. Japs Run on Borneo Did Not Wait to Fire Landmines Second Air Strip Captured New York
It was announced by Tokio radio that Australian and Dutch troops had completed the capture of Tarakan oil island, off the east coast of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hospital Fire Cigarette Believed Cause
No inquiry will be held by the District Coroner into the destruction by fire of the Macleay hospital night nurses' quarters on June 8…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Fire in Sydney
Several thousands pounds worth of damage was done to a Brisbane-street building in Sydney, when a fire broke out late on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jap. Snipers Fire at General MacArthur
Guam: A medium force of Super-Fortresses dropped explosive bombs on industrial plants at Sbimotsn, to the South of Osak[?], on Monday night, says…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Falling Fire" Phenomenon. Peasant's Stories Confirmed
"Falling fire," a curious phenomenon which was at first dismissed as village gossip among peasants of the Spanish province of Almeria,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magnetism and Ozone Cause of "Falling Fire."
Scientists now believe that the mysterious "falling fire" in the Spanish mountain town of Laroya, which has been causing great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good Save by Wingham Fire Brigade. Blaze at "Redlands" Flats
Wingham Fire Brigade, under Captain Joe Rowsell, made a good save on Thursday afternoon last, August 2 1945, when an outbreak of fire occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in the Pacific. 4000-Ton Fire Raid on Jap. Cities
More than 580 Supprfortresses from the Maranas dropped 4000 tons of fire-bombs on Japan late on Sunday night…
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