Houses Saved From Bush Fires
SYDNEY, Monday —After a three hour battle in choking smoke, Hornsby firemen and volunteers brought under control several bushfires which…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 30
School Gutted By Fire
SYDNEY, Monday.—Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused by a fire which practically destroyed the Northmead Public…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—The charted body of a young miner, who was missing after a fire destroyed a hotel at Ohura, was discovered by police…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—When a two-storied guest house at Wynnum, a seaside suburb, caught fire, a woman jumped 15 feet from an upper story…
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Employees at Gibson's Tea. Company premises, at the corner of Darby and Kins Streets, held a fire in check with buckets of water today…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—A fire in a R.A.A.F. hangar at Fairbairn Aerodrome, Canberra, early this morning destroyed a single-engined Auster…
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SYDNEY.—Creeping on three boys who were camped in the scrub near Northmead today, detectives arrested them in…
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LISMORE, Monday.—Poignant scenes were witnessed at the funeral to-day of the victims of the fire which wiped out a family of four at…
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BATAVIA, Tuesday: The Indonesians have followed the Dutch in ordering "cease fire" in Java and Sumatra as from midnight last night. Both parties have thus complied…
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BATAVIA, Aug. 4. —So far the Republican Government has not officially ordered its troops to cease fire in accordance with the decision of the United Nations Security Council…
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Despite Mayfield protests against the smoke nuisance from burning garbage, Greater Newcastle Council continues dumping…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Polishing mops or cloths used in the home could be a potential fire danger if shut up in a cupboard after they…
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To permit her to produce evidence that she was receiving support from a sanor, a remand until this morning was granted at Newcastle Court…
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SYDNEY: The Fire Control Officer of the Forestry Commission (Mr. H. Luke)said today that unless good rain fell in the…
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A Weather Bureau official said in Sydney last night that unless rain soon fell bushfire warnings would have to be issued. Newcastle district fire…
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Cook's Hill brigade was called to a fire in a stringer beneath No. 1 King's Wharf, near the Customs' House yesterday. A hydrant was…
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SYDNEY: District Officer James Knox, of Fire Brigade Headquarters, had his skull fractured this morning. He was on a tender answering an…
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TOKYO, August 6.—Extensive damage was caused to a new hospital building of the 20th Australian Field Ambulance of the British…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday: Colonel Hodgson (Australia) proposed today that the, U.N.O. Security Council should order a "cease fire" in Greece, as it had done in Indonesia…
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LITHGOW, Thursday.—When they detected fumes beneath the surface, the Manager of Cobar Colliery end a mining official who were making…
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