£20,000 Brisbane Fire
BRISBANE, Sunday: Detectives are investigating a fire which caused damage estimated at approximately £20,000 on the first floor of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1943
263 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 14
Boy Lights Fire in Church
ADELAIDE, Sunday.—A nine-year-old boy living at Hawthorn, Adelaide has confessed to the police that, he lit a fire, which destroyed…
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CASINO, Tuesday.—Grass fires, which in one case assumed dangerous proportions, were responsible for the Casino Fire Brigade…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: Damage estimated at £75,000 was caused by a fire when the factory of John Ogden Industries Ltd, Footscray,…
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A large wooden and fibre residence at Flagstaff Hill, Tweed Heads, owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morley was…
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CASINO, Monday.—At 4 o'clock this afternoon the Casino Fire Brigade was called to an extensive grass fire in Canterbury-street on…
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LONDON, Monday: According to a message from Stockholm, fires started in the RAF's raid on Berlin on…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Damage estimated at £5000 was caused by a fire at the home of Mr. A. C. Roach. Managing Director of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fire, which broke out in the chartroom of a large vessel in an Australian port this morning…
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A fire believed to have started in the chart room severely damaged the superstruction of a 10,000-ton ship in an Australian…
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SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday.—Following the beating off of the Japanese convoy off the north coast of New Guinea on Tuesday, Allied bombers yesterday concentrated on Lae and Salamaua…
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CASINO, Sunday.—A fire, believed to have started in some grass in the vicinity, severely damaged a shed and its contents yesterday…
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TAMWORTH, Tuesday: Damage from a fire which occurred tonight at the West Tamworth Milling Coy may be £100,000. The…
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TAMWORTH, Tuesday.—The greatest fire ever seen in Tamworth broke out to-night at West Tamworth Milling Company's…
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BALLINA, Wednesday.—Speaking at a meeting of Ballina District Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade last night Mr. P. F. Garling, of the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Two fire men, an electrician, a millhand and a leading aircraftman were hurt in fighting a fire which…
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A fine of £100 or imprisonment for six months or both is provision under National Security Regulations for lighting fires…
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BOSTON, Sunday: Barnett Welansky, owner of the Coconut Grove night club, has been convicted on 19 counts of manslaughter in…
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Following a protest by landholders in Woodenbong police patrol, Kyogle Shire Council yesterday decided to apply to the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—It is now considered certain that the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) will refuse to permit the basement of the…
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