Bushfire Spotting Plane
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The smallest but most elaborately radio-equipped aircraft in Australia will leave Mascot today…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
402 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 21
Fire Threatens Peg Shortage
HOBART, Monday: Pegs are likely to be in short supply in Australia for months because of a fire which destroyed most of the…
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GOULBURN, Monday.--A prisoner who set fire to his cell in the Goulburn Police Station early this morning in a desperate bid for…
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"One of the most effective ideas to hit the fire service in 50 years" is credited to John E. Holden, fuel distributor of Newington,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£650,000 Cotton Loss in Sydney Blaze
SYDNEY, Thursday: Fifteen thousand bales of raw cotton, valued at more than £650,000, were destroyed tonight in a fire which gutted the Trade and Customs Department…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire Damage £600,000
A SYDNEY, Thursday.--More than 15,000 bales of cotton, valued at £600,000, were completedly destroyed tonight when a fire gutted the…
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VANCOUVER, Thursday:— Twelve crew members of the Australian freighter Wairuna narrowly escaped death in a fire…
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CANBERRA, Friday.--Cotton destroyed in last night's Sydney fire comprised "a fair proportion" of reserves on hand in Australia and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£23,000 Fire in Brisbane
BRISBANE, Friday: Damage estimated at £23,000 was caused when a fire broke out this morning in D. Knox and Sons wool…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A fire in portion of the Western Stores and Edgleys Ltd. premises at Orange early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Grave Fire Risk" Claimed At Coolangatta
The Chief Officer (Mr J. H. Windle) reported at a meeting of Coolangatta Fire Brigade Board that…
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NEW YORK, Thursday: Fire broke out last night in one of the upper floors of the Empire State Building,…
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NEW YORK, Thursday (AAP).--A fire broke out last night on one of the upper floors of the Empire State Building--the world's largest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News in Brief Bushfires Raging in Vict
MELBOURNE, Friday.--A series of raging bushfires, all of them out of control, are causing widespread havoc between Lilydale and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attack on Radio Horror Serials Comic Strips, Films Also Under Fire
Murder and horror serials on the radio, American comic strips in city newspapers and certain types of motion pictures were denounced as being "most harmful for children" at the Richmond District Council of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: At a late hour tonight all city fire brigades were called to fight a big fire which…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: Sidney Voll (37) was overcome by smoke and collapsed while fighting a fire in the Valley tonight…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Clad only in their night attire, 20 guests and 10 members of the staff were forced to…
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A fire broke out in the kitchen chimney of the Hotel Murwillumbah shortly after 6 o'clock last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Call for Cease Fire In Palestine U.N. Move to End Strife
LAKE SUCCESS, Sunday: The United Nations Security Council early yesterday past a resolution calling on the Jews and Arabs to cease fire in Palestine and stop any political…
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