Coolangatta Fire Board
At Tuesday's meeting of Coo- langatta Town Council Aid. E. M. Budd was appointed to fill a vac- ancy caused on the Coolangatta…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Must Have Suitable Fire Escapes
At the request of Coolangatta Fire Brigade Board, Coolangatta Town Council has authorised its Health Inspector (Mr A. L…
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Sir,— At the meeting of the Coolangatta Town Council last night a letter was received from Ald. L. J. Bateson tendering his…
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (A.P.): A device known as the magnetic separator, which gleans bits of metal from the cotton as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Explosions and Fire Work Of Saboteurs at Haifa
LONDON, Friday: Reuter's Jerusalem representative says: It is return two violent explosions and an outbreak of fire occurred in the [?] officially stated that saboteurs attacked the Irak Petroleum…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Sunday. — A four-room dwelling at Blindmouth, near Mullumbimby, owned by Mr. N. Lanbros, was destroyed by fire…
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Concern at the failure of N.S.W. country hotel accommodation service to improve is expressed by the N.R.M.A. and R.A.C.A. Both…
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JERUSALEM, Tuesday (AAP).—The fire which caused damage unofficially estimated at four million sterling in oil installations at Haifa…
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Acting on the advice of the Solicitor-General, the Queensland Government has ruled that Coolangatta…
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JERUSALEM, Friday (AAP).—The Palestine Government has announced that fuel supplies because of losses in fires at Haifa…
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SYDNEY. Friday.—Police believe a fire which last night burnt out Belrose Post Office, French's Forest. was started deliberately…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: The damage caused by the fire at Belmont wool fellmongery and wool scour last night may be close to £50,000…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday (AAP).—Warning that it was no longer enough to say merely, "We don't want war," President Truman last night declared: "We must act in time—ahead of time—to stamp out smouldering…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A broadcast description of a fire which, last August, burned out a £350,000 Sydney wool store, last night panicked, executives of two wool firms. They thought the store…
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Because the building was outside the water supply limit, firemen could do nothing to stop a fire which destroyed a nine-room…
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All that remained of the nine-roomed house on Wyrallah Road, which was gutted by fire on Thursday night. At the time of the fire, the owners, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Pollard, were attending the Amateur Hour presentation in the Star Court Theatre. The picture at the left is a close-up of the kitchen fireplace, with kettle and saucepan still standing on the stove…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Watched by 4000 people, city firemen, using extension ladders, fought a blaze…
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LONDON, Monday: Reuter's representative at Cape Town says: The 5483-ton Greek steamer George Ivanos…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →650 Dead and 3000 Injured May Be Toll In Texas City Explosions and Fires
NEW YORK, Thursday: The dead in the Texas City disaster are estimated by Dr Clarence Quinn, medical co-ordinator, at 650. He said there were 3000 injured. The first official Press release issued by the city's Deputy-Mayor, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. City Wrecked In Holocaust: 1200 Dead Texas Port Swept by Poison Gas, Fire 3500, Hurt Wander in Ruins
NEW YORK Thursday, (AAP).—Twelve hundred persons are estimated killed, and 3,500 injured in a series of explosions which yesterday practically destroyed the city of Texas City, on the Gulf Mexico. The French freighter, Grand Camp, loaded with antmonlunt-nitrale end cotton, caught…
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