Sprinklers Put Fire Out
A small fire in the drying room at Hely Brothers, Hamilton, last night was put out by the automatic sprinklers. Some handles on the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 30
£2000 Fire Damage at Plywood Mills
HOBART, Thursday.—Fire caused damage estimated at £2000 at Somerset plywood mills to-night. It is believed the fire was caused by a…
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MELBOURNE. — Damage estimated at £150,000 was caused by a spectacular fire which broke out about 1 a.m. and was extinguished at 3 a.m. and then broke out again at 8 a.m. and burnt for another hour at Footscray…
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SYDNEY: Waking this morning to find burned to the around a house in which his two brothers lived, a man believed they had perished. A newspaper representative told…
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BATAVIA, Aug. 15.—The fire at the Shell Oil Company's depot near Tandjong Priok, Batavia's harbour, was brought under control at 6 p.m…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Damage estimated at £500,000 was caused by fire to the stores and fellmongery of William Anghss and Co. (Aust.)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crew Fought Fire At Sea
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Firemen from four stations worked for four hours to put out a fire in the American freighter Pioneer Glen when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ran Fire Hoses Under Rails
Firemen had to run their hoses beneath the rails when tents caught fire on railway property near Hamilton station on Saturday night…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A man broke his arm and several ribs early this morning when he jumped from the first floor of a Drummoyne hotel to…
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LAHORE, Wed.—Big fires are burning in the disturbed areas of the Punjab, lawless bands are defying authority, and thousands of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A claim for £6000 damages, made by brothers, Lewis Cornelius Greacin and Max Greacin, Quirindi graziers, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Fire 12 Shots At Three Of Suspect Robber Gang
SYDNEY: An all night hunt for a gang suspected of having robbed four homes at Cronulla yesterday, reached a climax at daybreak when detectives fired 12 shots at three men they chased through dense scrub at Herne Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Combustion Causes Fires in Garbage at Mayfield West
"Spontaneous combustion has now been proved defin[?]iy to be the cause of the fires in the Mayfield West garbage dumps," said the Mayor (Ald. H. D. Quinlan) after an early morning visit to the dumps today…
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NEW YORK, Aug. 22.A.A.P.—Britain has been temporarily "pulled out of fire" by the suspension of the free convertibility of sterling into dollars it was stated in Washington…
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Fire destroyed a weatherboard cattage and contents in Albany-street, Gosford, last night. It was owned and occupied by Mr. Jack Curtis,…
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BERLIN, Monday.—Death roll in the fire on a Hamburg suburban passenger train is now 26, with 47 seriously injured…
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Firemen entered through a window when a refrigerator motor overheadted in the Selfridges store yesterday. An extinguisher was used to put out the fire. There was no damage. Cook's Hill Brigade, under Inspector Edge, attended…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A large quantity of clothing was destroyed this morning when a fire broke out in the sorting room of Mark Mnyne's…
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LONDON, August 24. A.A.P.—Twenty-four passengers were killed and 49 seriously injured when a carriage of a Berlin suburban…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Topics of the Day Smoke, But Little Fire
THE FIRE in the main chamber at Newcastle Court yesterday was apparently faultily set. Some one put a match to it shortly before…
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