Arson Not Cause of Fire at Princess Home
LONDON, Sunday (AAP) -- The superintendent of the Berkshire police, after investigations into the Sunninghill Park fire, says that the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Arrest after French Cinema Fire
PARIS, Monday: Police arrested Anyone Mouillade (52), director of the burned-out Rueil cinema, in which 92 people lost…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire at Clelands branch bond and free store, at the intersection…
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SYDNEY, Monday.-- The most vivid fire in Sydney in a month caused damage estimated at £20,000 and menaced goods and machinery…
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Permits for burning off, which were required from yesterday, will be issued by Tweed Shire Council office, as in past years…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--When a passer-by threw down a lighted cigarette some petrol caught fire on the ground of a garage at Rose Bay…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Extensive damage to valuable equipment was caused by a spectacular fire in the S.T.C. Pty. Ltd. factory at Villawood…
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LONDON, Thursday: A fire which broke out in a cellulose factory at Richmond and spread to ten adjoining private homes…
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WELLINGTON, Thursday: A fire in a small cottage at Petone, near Wellington, cost the life of its eccentric occupier,…
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A meeting of Limpinwood branch of the PPU was held Limpinwood hall recently. The main purpose of the meeting…
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Mr J. Howarth was elected captain and Mr C. Foster deputy captain of the Upper Crystal Creek Bushfire Brigade,…
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BALLINA, Friday.--Slight damage was done to the home of Mrs. A. Watts, in River Street, Ballina, last night, when a fire broke out…
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BATAVIA, Monday (AAP).--Consular representatives of six allied powers have made a start with their job, given them by the Security Council, of seeing how the Dutch and Indonesians have carried out the cease-fire…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday: When a house caught fire in Greenslopes this afternoon a 15-month-old baby girl was rescued from the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Direct action to obtain a shorter working week had been threatened by high ranking fire brigade officers, the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--Special conditions to be observed by persons lighting fires in the open in certain Darts of the state were anonunced today…
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LISMORE, Friday: A fire broke out in the New England Motor Company's bus when it was on its way to Brisbane about 11.15…
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A fire broke out in a New England Motor Company bus en route to Brisbane about 11.15 a.m. yesterday. The bus, carrying about 30…
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BATAVIA, Sunday (AAP-Reuter).--Four Australian officers assisting the Consular Commission to investigate the cease-fire in Indonesia left…
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Today, September 15,1947, marks the 40th anniversary of the great fire which razed the shopping centre of Murwillumbah to the ground and led to the building of Main Street as we know it today. Various stories as to the origin of the fire have been forwarded,…
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