Fire Alarm
On Saturday morning last, at about 10 o'clock, the Corowa Fire Brigade was called out to an outbreak of fire in a shed in the yard at the rear of…
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Fire Board Chief’s Admissions SYDNEY
The president of the NSW Fire Board Thomas Januarlus Smith, admitted In the Divorce Registrar’s Court today that a firm in which he was a shareholder had…
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Gas poisoning has now been advanced as the cause of the Erskineville family tragedy yesterday, in which a father and his baby son lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Sequel to Destruction of Plane by Fire Auckland (Nz)
Arising out of destruction by Are at Mansers aerodrome on May 13 of a Lockheed Lodestar monoplane valued at £40,000, Frederick Demchy, aged 18, at Auckland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Revolvers Cost £800 EACH” Federal Government Under Fire PERTH
The Fremantle electors would have either to endorse Federal maladministration bungling and wastage together with Communistic control of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death Came to Father and Son in Front of Fire SYDNEY
Prolonged inhalation of carbon-monoxide fumes from a coal fire in the room in which they were sleeping caused the deaths of Leslle Hayward…
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Albury Fire Brigade received a call last night at 9.25 to the corner of the Young and Tribune [?], where the rafters of the house occupied by Mr George…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Munitions Plant SYDNEY
When a fire bloke out in a munitions ions plant in a town near Sydney today a great column of while smoke shot into the air, covering parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Aboard Liner LONDON, Monday
A fire in the fan-room, which affected the ship’s ventilation, caused the liner [?] to return lo Liverpool and land passengers a few hours after she had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Caused Fire Damage of £13,000 Auckland (Nz)
Pleading gully guilty to setting Ore to four big houses in Auckland suburbs and causing damage estimated at about £13.000. Ronald Dempsey Crack, aged 33, was committed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Soldiers Fighting Oil Wells Fire
Australian soldiers fighting oil well fires started by the Japanese at Seria, north-west Borneo. The soldier in the asbestos suit is attempting to close a value with a spanner. He is using the door as…
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Soot in a chimney caught alight at the Silver Key cafe in Dean St., yesterday afternoon. Firemen soon had the outbreak under control and little…
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Several hundred people made an orderly exit this evening when a fire broke out in tho floor above Hoyts de Luxe theatre, Bourke street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cease Fire to Pacific Fleet GUAM
Admiral Nimitz flashed the cease fire order almost at the same lime as Mr Truman’s announcement of the surrender was issued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Enforce Cease Fire Imperial Family for Fronts San Francisco
The Japanese Government has sent a message to General MacArthur stating that Emperor Hirohito is sending members of the Imperial family to the various fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General MacArthur Tells Japanese To “Quit Stalling” a Sharp Rebuke to War Lords Enemy Envoys Leave With “Cease Fire” Order MANILA
Following Japanese appeals to intervene in Manchuria to ensure that the Russians cease their offensive operations; that Allied forces refrain from approaching the Japanese homeland temporarily, and that additional…
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Sydney harbor averaged five out-breaks of fire monthly during the war said the harbor master (Capt. Murchison) today. At times the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Albury Doctor Critical Hospitals Commission Under Fire
“Stop sitting down! Don’t let them put It over you!” This was Dr H. C. Worch’s parting exhortation to Albury Hospital Board when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cease Fire In N.G. But No Jap Surrender Yet MELBOURNE
The position of Japanese troops in New Guinea was clarified on Wednesday when advice was received from Lieut-General A[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Professors Under Fire “Impairing Job of Reconstruction”
The cant are silent at last. But Just as the receding tidal wave leaves behind it all sorts of residue, which Impairs the job of…
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