Allied Communique Big Fires At Jap. Bases
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Three Japanese bases In the North of Australia were blasted yesterday, ending…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
396 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 20
Two Dead in Sydney Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.— A fire which occurred in a six storey building in Foveaux-street, City, today, resulted in the death of a, man and a young woman, injuries to three others, and the…
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SYDNEY, Friday: A man and a woman were burned to death this afternoon when a six-storey budding in Surry Hills was gutted…
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KYOGLE, Sunday.—Damage estimated at £30,000 was caused by a fire which, early yesterday, destroyed the emporium of Messrs Junors Proprietary Ltd in the central section of Main…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Estelle Williams (14). who was rescued from the factory fire at Surry Hills, died in hospital from shock during the…
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KYOGLE, Sunday: Damage estimated at £30,000 was caused by a fire which early yesterday destroyed the emporium of Messrs…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—An elderly woman last her life when a weatherboard dwelling in Wellington street,…
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Believed to have started in the hardware section, fire early on Saturday destroyed the general store of Junors Pty. Ltd., the largest business house in Kyogle. Damage is estimated to have amounted to approximately £30,000, but the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The fire causing £10,000 damage in a Botany wool store on May 24 was started by two children, a boy of 10 and a…
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SYDNEY, Monday: The City Coroner (Mr Oram) found today that a boy of 10 and a girl of 11 had maliciously set fire to the premises of F…
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SYDNEY.--A man and a woman were burned to death, four people were injured, and damage estimated at between £40,000 and £50,000 was…
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A number of big fires have occurred in Kyogle since the town was established following the subdivision of Kyogle Estate. The first of a serious nature oc-curred in 1906 when a number of temporary buildings in Main-streetwere destroyed…
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SYDNEY.-- The City Coroner found this week that a boy of 10, and a girl of 11, had maliciously set fire to the premises of F. W. Hughes Pty.,…
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CASINO, Sunday.—Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock the district coroner (Mr Elsmer Jones) will resume his inquiry into a fire which…
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At the instance of Messrs. D. Dalziel and W. Marwick, Kyogle Urban Committee yesterday afternoon decided to give the owners 24 hours notice…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Continuing to pound Japanese bases north-west of Australia, Allied bombers yesterday started large fires among enemy installations at Lae and Salamaua…
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MELBOURNE. Monday.—A fire at the Phoenix Biscuit Company factory at Abbotsford last night will delay defence contracts for biscuits and cakes…
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A theory that a cat, by pulling a tablecloth and upsetting a lighted kerosene lamp on a table in the residential portion of the premises, had started a fire which on June 24 destroyed a shop, two houses and two offices in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Special nozzles of a type developed by the Chief of the New South Wales Fire Brigade (Mr Richardson)…
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URBENVILLE, Tuesday.—A theory that a cat, by pulling a tablecloth and upsetting a lighted kerosene lamp on a…
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