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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
263 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 14
Fortresses and Catalinas heavily pun[?]shed Japanese aerodromes, ringing the Buin-Faisi naval base in the northern Solomons early on Saturday morning. Twenty-three tons of bombs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Lismore and District War Agricultural Committee some time ago made recommendations to the Government for amendment of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Lismore Fire Brigade in charge of Station Officer Welch, received a call to a small lire at Messrs. Robb and Brown's premises…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire destroyed a woodwork building in Annandale yesterday. The factory was making woodwork for defence purposes, and the damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The home of Mr. G. Priest, Geneva, was destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. Awakened by the smell of smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A sudden outbreak of fire in a six-storey building at Annandale early this morning completely destroyed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DUBLIN, Tuesday (AAP).—Thirty-seven of 100 children are missing after a fire which destroyed the female orphanage attached to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday (AAP).—Thirty-six children lost their lives in a fire in a convent in County Clare, Ireland, and other children,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DUBLIN, Wednesday: Thirty-six out of 100 children are dead and 13 are in hospital as the result of a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Sunday. — Enrolment will shortly commence for the Fire Guard Section of the N.E.S., said the Minister for N.E.S. (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five children died in Newcastle Hospital on Sunday from burns they received when a flame was set to explosive powder which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—While lying across her bed where she apparently collapsed in an apartment house that she conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ARMIDALE, Friday: Trapped in the flames ef a grass fire at her home at Chevy Chase, Dangarsleigh, near Armidale, last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ARMIDALE, Saturday.—Trapped in a fire near Armidale last night, Mrs. Mabel Jane Perrott (79) was burned to death. Today she was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday: Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by a fire at the premises of the Australian Chemical…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Tuesday: Berlin Radio states that 200 persons were incinerated when a fire broke out in a small cinema on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TOWNSVILLE, Friday: Damage estimated at more than £30,000 was caused today by a fire which destroyed the premises owned by Don…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thousands of men and women, and boys and girls over the age of 15, will be asked to enrol as Fire Guards, in the new N.E.S…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Within the past 24 hours four separate fires have been discovered at Grace Brothers building, Brodaway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). — The Russians have officially admitted that the Red Army has evacuated Kharkov. In the central sector the Russians have made important gains In the drive against four key points of the Smolensk defence system…
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