'Ware the Fire Risk
No holiday-maker in his Senses would wish to send up in smoke the bush in which he had enjoyed his picnic, yet, unless rain falls…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 30
Discussion On Fire Rate Ruled Out
Two motions dealing with the fire protection of Newcastle, introduced by Ald. Breen as "a matter of urgency" at last' night's…
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LISMORE, Tuesday.—Explosions in a hangar preceded a fire which caused more than £40,000 damage to Mosquito bomber aircraft at the former R.A.A.F. station aerodrome at…
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WASHINGTON,: Tues. (A.A.P.): The United States will demand at the Security Council meeting in Paris tomorrow that the Dutch halt military action…
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TIENTSIN, Thurs. (A.A.P.-Reuter). —A tremendous fire, four miles north of Tientsin, is the first indication that the civil war has entered this…
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KATOOMBA, Wednesday.—Bushfires are threatening to cut off the water supply to the Blue Mountains town of Leura…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The 7000-ton British freighter, Merchant Royal on her way from Newcastle to England with a cargo…
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SYDNEY.—Three people scrambled through a back window and climbed adjoining roofs to escape from their…
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A 22 foot launch had to be sunk at Nelson's Bay yesterday afternoon before a fire in its engine room could be extinguished…
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LONDON. Mon. (A.A.P.): Egyptian officials have told the British Embassy in Cairo that Egypt would be prepared to accept conciliation in Palestine if the Jews abide by the Security Council's cease-fire order. This was stated by a Foreign…
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WOLLONGONG, Monday—Detectives believe a fire which destroyed a fibro home in a Housing Commission project at…
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SYDNEY.—Detectives blame children for starting three fires in the past fortnight in three partly-built Housing…
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Cook's Hill brigade put out a fire in some packing cases in the yard of the Criterion Hotel, Hunter and Bolton Streets, soon after…
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LONDON, Dec. 27. A.A.P.—The Dutch Government had not yet taken any decision on the resolution of the U.N.O. Security Council ordering cessation of hostilities in Indonesia,…
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GOSFORD, Monday.—A bushfire is raging to-night on a mile front on both sides of the Pacific Highway, about three-quarters of…
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SYDNEY.—Miles of bush are on fire in the Hornsby valley and a number of homes are threatened. A Hornsby fire…
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Newcastle district fire brigades were kept busy yesterday attending grass and rubbish fires in Newcastle and at Lakeside areas…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The ban on lighting fires in the open had been extended until 6 p.m. to-morrow, said Mr. A. G. Kingsmill, a…
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Maitland fire brigade attended to two grass fires on Tuesday night and yesterday, and a fire in a workshop at the rear of a house…
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The rear portion of a cottage occupied by Mr. Ronald Bishop, of Wallsend-road, Cardiff, was damaged by fire yesterday…
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