Subsidy on Bush Fire Fighting Equipment
The Department of Local Government advised Tweed Shire Council meeting last night that Government subsidy of 50 per…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Fire Prevention Week in U.s
WASHINGTON (A.P.): Asserting that loss by fire has "almost doubled" during the past decade, President Truman has called for…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--Hot summer weather brought a crop of bushfires to the Sydney suburbs today. The highest reading today was 86…
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A large area of grass and reeds on the railway embankment at the corner of Union and Frank Streets, South Lismore, caught fire…
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A small scrub fire broke out in Robinson's Park, Lismore, yesterday morning. Lismore Fire Brigade extinguished it with beaters and…
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A fire broke out in the grass alongside the New Ballina Cutting, Lismore, about 11.45 yesterday morning. Lismore Fire Brigade…
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Lismore Fire Brigade was called out to a small grass fire near the old reservoir on Girard's Hill at 5.25 p.m. yesterday. The fire was…
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COLOMBO, Sunday: The British India Steam Navigation Company's ship Nirvana when 100 miles off Colombo sent a radio…
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The Fire Station at Lismore may be left without permanent officers as from October 1. At Lismore City Council meeting…
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A meeting, called in conjunction with the Progress Association, was held recently in the Uki School of Arts…
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Lismore Fire Brigade was called out about 8.15 last night to attend a fire in thick grass near the Winsome Hotel. It was…
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A car owned by Mr Grahame Price received only slight damage when it became afire in Condong Street, Murwillumbah, at 2.45 pm…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Damage estimated at more than £70,000 was caused early this morning by a fire…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday: In the course of the inquest into the fire at the engineering works of Charles Richardson and Sons on…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Damage estimated at £75,000 was caused by a fire in the Wool Carbonising factory and wool store of F. W. Hughes…
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CAIRNS, Friday: While chemicals from a shattered bottle blazed furiously in the sterilising room at Cairns hospital and…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--The State Industrial Commission to-day summoned representatives of the Fire Brigade Officers' Association and…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Sydney will be without a fire brigade service from Wednesday unless a settlement is reached at a compulsory…
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SYDNEY, Monday. -- Members of the Fire Brigade Officers Association at a mass meeting tonight decided to go ahead with plans to work only 56…
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NEW YORK, Monday: A message from Corroe, Texas, says: For the first time in American fire-fighting history, artificial rain-making was attempted in an effort to check [?] forest fires raging in southeast Texas…
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