People Sleep on Beach to Escape Bushfires
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — More than 1000 people slept on the ocean beach at Anglesea last night as bushfires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New England · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Instruction in Fire Fighting Methods
A feature of the youth school at Biribbaree instruction in fire lighting methods was. that of pumping machines on a lorry. Lorries equipped with water tanks are fast becoming standard equipment with N.S.W. shires. Despite bush fires throughout New…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Indian Riots Many Deaths Police Open Fire Calcutta
Several deaths are included in the mounting list of casualties reported as a result of the latest outbreak of rioting and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfire Danger Abates South-West Retieyed By Cool Winds Heatwave at Sydney SYDNEY
Although heat wave conditions are still being experienced in some parts of the State, the Acting State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Handicafper Under Fire Weights Far Armidale Cup
Allotting Prince Consort 9.5 in the Armidale Cup has brought considerable criticism on the heaid of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Ship on Fire Take to Lifeboats 18 Persons Drowned London
Sixteen members of the crew and two passengers are reported to have been drowned following a fire on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →18 Drowned in Atlantic Following Fire On Freighter Loaded With Australian Wool LPNDON
Sixteen membhers of the crew and two passenger's are reported to have peen drowned following a fire on the 17219…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gravesend Hotel Demolished by Fire
The Gravesend Hotel with all contents was burnt down last night. Mr. E. Musk, the licencee, was awakened by the noise about 2 o'clock, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gravesend Hotel and Contents Destroyed By Fire
The Hotel Gravesend and all contents were destroyed by fire this week. The licensee, Edmund Musk, was awakened at 1 o’clock on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Warialda Fire Mr. de Fraine’s Home Destroyed
A six-roomed weatherboard cottage in Long Street, occupied by Mr. W. de Frame. was destroyed by fir at an early hour on Wednesday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Loss of Battery--plates in Fire
SYDNEY, Saturday.--A total of 50,000 battery plates, a[?] well as electric motors valued at several thousand pounds,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Gravesend Fire
In connection with the burning of the Gravesend Hotel on the night of the 2nd inst., briefly referred to in our last issue, it has been ascertained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warialda Home Destroyed by Fire
Warialda had its first fire for many years when a weatherboard cottage in Long Street, occupied by Mr. & Mrs. W. De Fraine and family, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Dance Hall Forty Incinerated Women Crushed Berlin
It is officially announced that three British soldiers were killed and four seriously injured in a fire in the Spandau…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in German Dance Hall Three British Soldiers Perish BERLIN
It is officially announced that three British soldiers were killed and four seriously injured in a fire in a Spandau dance hall. Eighteen were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Army Fire Service at Trieste
Recently a practice fire was swiftly extinguished by the newly arrived Medium Fire Float, of the 18th (1st class) Fire Brigade stationed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →City Rates Rise Figure Now Near limit Administration Costs, Basic Wage and Fire Protection Blamed
On Monday night Armidale City Council fixed the combined general, aerodrome, Town Hall, parks improvement and footpaths loan rate for 1947 at 10£d in the £ on the unimproved capital value of all ratable land in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Brigade for Uralla? To Be Decided at Referendum
The establishment of a fire brigade in Uralla will be decided by public referendum, which it is intended to hold in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Referendum en Establishment of Fire Brigade
The establishment of a fire brigade in Uralla will be decided by public referendum, which it is intended to hold in conjunction with the local…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bigamy Charge Man Given fire Year Bond
Reginald Thomas Mitchell, who pleaded guilty before Judge Storkey, V.C.. at the Inverell .Quarter Session on Wednesday, to a charge…
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