Tragic N.z. Fire Was Preceded by False Alarm
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday (AAP-Reuter).--Some time before the actual fire at Balllantyne's a false alarm had been given…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
402 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 21
Proposed Fire Sub-station at Palm Beach
At the monthly meeting of Coolangatta Fire Brigade Board, presided over by Mr S. W. Winders, it was decided to make…
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MARYBOROUGH, Sunday: Buildings and electric and radio equipment worth £20,000 were lost when Maryborough's…
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A backyard fire at the residence of Mr. James Prever, of 77 Cathcart Street, Lismore, on Saturday afternoon, destroyed a thick growth of…
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MIAMI, Sunday (AAP). -- Twelve rescue planes and two blimps carrying rubber boats and rafts went into operation yesterday following a…
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The whole of the contents were destroyed when a weatherboard dwelling was burnt to the ground at Main Arm, Mullumbimby, on…
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MULLUMBIMBY. Monday -- The contents of an[?]uninsured weatherboard dwellng at Main Arm were destroyed when the house was razed…
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Following his arrest, Hector Francis Thorn (34). laborer, was charged at Mullumbimby Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with…
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St. JOHN'S (Newfoundland), Wednesday (AAP). -- Thirty-five persons were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the Old People's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. E. B. Shirley's Statement to Council Man Seen Lighting Fire From Store Petrol Bowser
In a letter to Kyogle Shire Council, read at Monday's meeting, Mr. E. B. Shirley stated that at one o'clock on Sunday morning a man had been seen lighting a fire in the main street. He said that the man had poured petrol out of a bowser pipe and…
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MELBOURNE, Friday: Victoria narrowly escaped disastrous losses from bush-fires yesterday according to officials of…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday: Stripped to the waist and working in clouds of steam and smoke, relays of firemen yesterday…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday: After a three-hour battle with a fire on the British motor ship Chyebassa…
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ADELAIDE, Monday: The last fire in the cargo of flour in No.5 hold of the freighter Willesden was brought under control…
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MELBOURNE,Tuesday: Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire in Lonsdale Street, City, early today…
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LONDON, Thursday: The Associated Press representative at Haifa says: Two armored buses carrying American members of…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Thursday.--After an inquiry at the Coroner's Court at Mullumbimby into the destruction by fire of a weatherboard dwelling at Durrumbul, Main Arm, Mullumbimby, on February 7, Mr…
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After hearing evidence at the Coroner's Court of Inquiry at Mullumbimby on Wednesday in connection with the destruction by fire of a weatherboard dwelling at Durrumbul, Main Arm, Mullumbimby, on Saturday…
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Lismore Fire Brigade Officer (Mr. L. Newland) yesterday issued a warning on penalties for improper use of fire. Mr. Newland said the…
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BALLINA, Monday. -- Ballina Fire Brigade was today called to Lighthouse Hill when a heap of rubbish being burned off on a…
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