Used Fire Board Car, Free Petrol
SYDNEY, Friday.—Thomas Januarius Smith, Chairman of the N.S.W. Board of Fire Commisssioners, and a former M.L.C., admitted…
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Fires & bushfires, 1945
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 22
Set Fire to Husband Is Charge
SYDNEY—The mother of a month-old baby. Marjorie Mary Jean Bonus, 26, Camden Street. Newtown, was remanded until August 2 at…
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In a chase along Beaumont Street, Hamilton, early this morning, Constable M. Evans of Hamilton fired a shot at a…
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Now that there is no possibility of the sirens being confused with air raid warnings, they are to be restored on all…
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GUAM, July 23. A.A.P.—Seventy-five American Super-fortresses, flying from bases in the Marianas, last night dropped 450 tons of demolition bombs on the Ube synthetic oil plant at the south-western tip of Honshu Island…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The President of the New South Wales Fire Board, Thomas Januarius Smith, admitted in the Divorce Registrar's Court…
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SYDNEY: The mystery surrounding the death of a father and his infant son and the illness of his wife and a twin brother of the dead boy at Erskineville yesterday took a sensational…
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Sirens have been restored to fire engines and equipment in the Newcastle district, Headquarters station and most of the suburban stations…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Prolonged inhalation of carbon monoxide fumes issuing from a coal fire in the room in which they were sleeping caused…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A.I.F. Corporal Wins V.C. Two Lone Attacks Under Heavy Fire
CANBERRA, Thursday.—For conspicuous bravery on South Bougainville on March 22, when, singlehanded, he twice rushed into heavy enemy fire and silenced Japanese automatic weapons, the King has awarded the Victoria…
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GUAM, Saturday: The Japanese people were told last night that four of 11 specified cities will be burned out by Superfortress fire bomb raids in the next few days…
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LONDON, July 30. A.A.P.—A fire in the fanroom, which affected the ship's ventilation, caused the liner Rimutaka to return to Liverpool and…
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AUCKLAND, Tuesday. — Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of setting fire to four big homes in Auckland suburbs, causing damage estimated at…
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An Australian soldier, in asbestos suit, fighting an oil well fire started by the Japanese at Serbia, north-west Borneo. He is…
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MANILA, August 3.—In close support of ground operations in Borneo. Australian planes burned many buildings and disrupted transport…
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Balikpapan oil wells burn fiercely after attack by R.A.A.F. Liberators of 1st T.A.F…
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GUAM, Monday.—More, than 530 Superfortresses from the Marianas drooped 4000 tons of fire-bombs on Japan late last night. Earlier, Tokio…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Severe damage was done by water to the premises of John Lawler and Company, furniture manufacturers, when a fire…
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MOSCOW. Monday.—An aeroplane fire-fighting detector service will be part of the vast Russian reafforestation scheme to replace the…
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Following representations by the Lower Hunter Shire Council and district progress bodies, the Board of Fire Commissioners has approved…
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