Test Selectors Under Fire at League Meeting
SYDNEY, Monday.—Claims were made at to-night's meeting of the New South Wales Rugby League that Noel White, Kurri Kurri…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 30
New Protest on Closing of Fire Stations
Closure of the Adamstown and Lambton fire stations was criticised by Adamstown Parents and Citizens Association last night…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners has advised Maitland City Council that, in view of the high-powered motors and good roads, it had been…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday — A fire which raged for three hours to-night at Winton, in Central Queensland, destroyed…
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CABERRA, Wednesday.— The Government's, Tradesmen's rights Regulation Bill, covering dilutees, would make it impossible for certain…
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WINTON (Qld.), Thursday: Spreading fast a fire, which started in the. window of a jeweller's shop last night, gutted…
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Increasing costs of fire brigade service in Newcastle would make a higher rate necessary, the President of the Board of…
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Following the decision of the Fire Brigades to close the Lorn Station, equipment was removed to West Maitland. The closure will mean that…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Two men were sentenced at Winton Court to-day to two months' imprisonment on stealing charges, as a sequel to the…
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On a population basis, Newcastle had moos fire-fighters and more fire-fighting equipment than any other city in the British-speaking world, the President of the Board of Fire Commissioners (Mr. T. J. Smith) said at Lambton last night…
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Firemen at Tighe's Hill were called upon to extinguish an unusual fire this morning. A truck belonging to Greater Newcastle Council had collected a load of garbage which ignited. The truck was driven a few hundred yards to the Tighe's Hill Station where the refuse was…
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SYDNEY, Saturday Morning.—Fire destroyed a two-storied factory in Canterbury-road, Canterbury, early this morning. The factory contained…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Many patients had narrow escapes from death tonight when the private hospital, "Normanhurst," at Ashfield, caught…
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A detached slab shed at the home of Albert Wilkinson, of Lake-road, Wallsend, was with a few odds and ends it contained, destroyed by fire…
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Brigades attended three small fires in Newcastle district yesterday. Burning rubbish at the corner of Scott-street and Parnell Place was…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A survey of fire stations closed in September of last year is being conducted by the Bound of Fire Commissioners to…
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SYDNEY: Dry winds have made bush undergrowth so parched and brittle that early and big bushfires are expected. Outbreaks have already occurred along the North Shore and outer suburbs. SYDNEY fire brigades had more…
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PERTH: A large audience which filled Perth Town Hall last night to hear the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) gave him an attentive but not an enthusiastic hearing. Mr. Chifley gave the meeting—,…
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When his clothes caught fire at his home at Ada-street. Homeville. yesterday afternoon. Norman Dunn, 6, received burns on the face, chest…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—More than 100 police and detectives under C.I.B. chiefs were rushed to Long Bay Gaol as a precautionary…
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