Boys Suspected Of Starting Lithgow Fires
LITHGOW, Monday.—Juvenile fire-bugs are believed to be responsible for a fire which caused £500 damage at the Lithgow Technical…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Two Ships on Fire
ALEXANDRIA, June 9. A.A.P.—The British steamer Malayan Prince, bound for Haifa from Liverpool, has been ablaze since yesterday morning…
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TIRANA, June 9. A.A.P.—The Albanian Ministry of Defence has defined four areas on the Greek-Albanian border in which foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Says Fire Risk Of Canberra Buildings Great
CANBERRA, Monday.—Many public servants working in temporary buildings at Canberra were exposed to great danger from fire risk,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion And Fire On Cruiser: Man's Dash
Petrol tanks containing 80 gallons of petrol went up in a terrific explosion seconds after Neil Chiplin, of Pacific Street, Newcastle, made a dramatic escape to safety by leaping from the blazing cruiser Runette on to the Toronto Yacht…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—After an armed hold-up at a Bellevue Hill home on May 30, a man had tried to discharge a revolver at him…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Wool valued at £500 was destroyed when fire broke out in Lupton's wool scour in Cranbrook-street, Botany,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youths Fire Their "Job" Questions
These lads were eager for information about jobs after an address by Lysaght's Personnel Officer (Mr. J. S. Davidson) at the Newcastle Girls' High School yesterday. Mr. Davidson's address was one of a series arranged by the Youth Welfare Section of the Department of Labour and Industry. He dealt with jobs in industry for which apprenticeship was not necessary…
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Newcastle Fire Brigade and a gas company employee were called to a house in Pacific-street, Newcastle, yesterday when gas from a leaking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russians Fire On Swedish Relief Party In Austria
VIENNA, June 12. A.A.P.—A high Austrian Government official reported that Russian troops last night fired on a Swedish relief agency…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heroic Mother Braves Fire
SYDNEY: The heroism of a mother who early yesterday morning risked her life to save her two children from their blazing, smoke-filled home at Hurstville, was praised by police and neighbors today. Mrs. Sarah Jane Wilson (39) was…
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TODAY'S PICTURE OF BIG SYDNEY FIRE. Some of the equipment which escaped serious damage when a fire last night gutted the P.M.G. transmission laboratory in Underwood Street. The building housed the terminal of many trunk-line telephone cables and today…
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SYDNEY: N.S.W. trunk line services, which were completely disorganised when telephone equipment worth more than £100,000 was seriously damaged in a fire which gutted the P.M.G. Transmission Laboratory, Underwood Street,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A fire which severely damaged two buildings in George-st., City, to-night, caused about £50,000 damage. One of the buildings damaged was the old "Bulletin"…
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Newcastle Waratah and Tighe's Hill brigades quickly extinguished a blaze in the sheet mill warehouse at the Commonwealth Steel Company's…
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TOKYO, June 16.—Fire completely destroyed the big New Zealand Army Service Corps supply point building at Chofu…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—All telephone trunk line services disrupted by the fire last night in the P.M.G. Department's transmission laboratory…
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SYDNEY: The courage and endurance of G.P.O. technicians and the splendid work of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade's Salvage Squad has enabled Sydney to regain full telephone communication with Newcastle, the North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fought Fire With Flaming Kapok Stuck To His Feet
SYDNEY: With pieces of flaming kapok adhering to his bare feet, a man fought a fire in a bedroom of his Redfern home…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Councils Fear Fires And Explosions
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fear of fire and explosions was expressed by a deputation of municipal councilors who told the Deputy Premier (Mr…
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