Park Guns to Fire Again
MELBOURNE.--Nearly 500 old German machine-guns have been remodelled, and are ready for use. The guns, taken from parks,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
396 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 10 of 20
Children Tell How They Started Fires £20,000 Damage
SYDNEY, Thursday: A boy aged 10 and a girl aged 11 made statements to the police admitting that they started two fires which caused…
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Mrs Doris Souter (22) was burnt about the arms and body when her clothing caught fire at Coolangatta last night…
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CANBERRA, Friday: The Army Minister (Mr Forde) said today that the suggestion by the Melbourne Fire Brigade chief (Mr Kemp) that 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fires In Tulagi Raid
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Striking hard at the enemy bases in the North-west Pacific area, Allied planes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coolangatta Fire Brigade
At the first meeting of the recently appointed provisional committee of the Coolangatta Volunteer Fire Brigade the chairman, Ald L. Peak) extended a…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: John Wayne (2) and his father, William James Wayne (35), were killed when fire broke out in one of a block of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man and Son Incinerated in Mountain Fire
SYDNEY,. Sunday.—Two persons, one of them a child aged two years, were burnt to death when a cottage in which they…
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John Mayne, aged two, and his father, William James Mayne, 35, were killed when fire broke out in one of a block of three flats in…
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BALLINA, Monday.—Early on Sunday morning fire destroyed a large shed on the farm, situated on the Ballina-Cumbalum road 'about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinese to Blaze New Route for Pack Trains
Three 100-man Chinese survey corps, each including engineers, road experts, map makers, and armed guards, have left Kunming…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ruhr Fires Guide Bombers in New Attack Raf Blitz Crushes Nazi Industries
LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—With the ruins in Cologne and Essen still smouldering from the two great 1000 bomber raids, the RAF again swept across the Ruhr industrial area last night to continue the blitz on Germany's war machine…
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Lismore Fire Brigade have had to deal with only eight outbreaks of fire within the municipality during the last six months. They…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—Strong forces of RAF bombers again roared over Germany last night and made a heavy raid on Emden, an important German port. Large fires were left…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?]on Sets [?]y Ship [?] Fire
LONDON, Tuesday: A Perth [?]gt Thomas Michael Duffy, [?]as born at Condoblin, was [?]ar gunner of a Coastal…
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SYDNEY. Thursday. — Michael Laurence Griffin, 34, of Daceyville, a fireman, was killed tonight when he was trapped by 200 tons of steel…
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CASINO, Tuesday.—Early this afternoon the Casino Fire Brigade, under Station Officer L Stobbie, received a call to quell a grass and…
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CASINO, Tuesday.—At a rescue squad NES Drill at the Casino Fire Brigade last week one of the outstanding examples of…
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A shop, two houses, and a hall were destroyed by fire at Urbenville last night. Damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£4000 Damages In Big Urbenville Fire Shops: Dwellings Gutted
Damage estimated at more than £4000 was caused on Wednesday night by a fire which destroyed a shop two houses and…
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