Orange Seeks Fire Award Change
Orange City Council is likely to ask for a variation in the award for salaried fire officers enabling the station to revert to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1948
170 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 3 of 9
News in Brief Electric Iron Starts Fire
An electric iron which was left switched on, nearly caused a serious fire in Oberon on Saturday night causing damage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia Supports U.S. Move for Cease Fire in Palestine London, Tuesday
Russia has officially recognised the Jewish state of Israel. Simultaneously, at Lake Success, it has indirectly supported the new American move demanding that the Security Council order the immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cumnock News. Building Destroyed by Fire Occupants Away But Lose Furniture, Clothing, Etc
On Monday morning of this week a fire destroyed a building in Obley Street. The fire was first noticed by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cease Fire Order Ignored by Arabs Fighting Continues In Holy City New York, Tuesday
The United Nations' dead-line for cease fire in Palestine—fixed for 8 p.m., Palestine time, last night, (4 a.m. today, Sydney time)—passed without any official word of acceptance or rejection from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Alarm Causes Excitement
Just as employees of business establishments were streaming forth into the streets at closing up time yesterday, considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Immigration Minister Under Fire In Malayan Paper SINGAPORE, Friday
"Blundering, tactless, unreasonable, harsh and provocative" were adjectives applied today to the Australian Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) in a leading article in the newspaper Straits Times,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jews Break Cease Fire London, Friday
[?] is officially announced in Damascus that the Jewish forces have broken the United Nations' cease fire in Palestine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires Add Terrors to Quake-shattered Cities Tokio
Fires, visible 30 miles away, are blazing in the shattered city of Fukui (population 85,000) the centre of the major earthquake that rocked central Japan yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spectacular Cootamundra Blaze
A disastrous fire which completely gutted the old established premises of Solomon Cohen and Co. Ltd., caused great…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2 Women Burned in Cafe Fire Sydney
Two women suffered burns, one severely, when a primus in a cafe at Circular Quay, burst last night and set fire to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Palestine Iraq, Syria Reject Cease-fire Orders London, Tuesday
The United Nation's second attempt at a cease fire and truce in Palestine has got off to a risky start with an official announcement from Baghdad, that Iraq and Syria have rejected both the cease fire and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Exceptional Dancer From Bush Fires Expected This Summer
The Bush Fries Advisory Committee has informed the Chief Secretary that this year there is likely to be a potential fire danger in New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire in Sydney
A fire gravely menaced a six story building of the Singer Sewing Machine Company early today 18 fire engines manned by 64 firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfire Danger Acute This Summer
The Bush Fire Advisory Committee has informed the Chief Secretary that prior to and during the summer of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →State Warning on Bushfire Danger
Great concern has been expressed by the Bush Fire Advisory Committee at the possibility of disastrous bush fires occurring during the summer months. Conditions are said to be likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mendooran Man Collapses on Fire
Collapsing on a fire at his home at Mendooran at the week end, Mr. James Clinnick (57) World War 1 veteran, received…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Warning on Bush Fire Danger
Great concern Los been expressed by the Bush Fire Advisory Committee at the possibility of disastrous bush fires occuring during the summer months. Conditions are said in likely to approximate those which prevailed in 1939…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Fire Control System for the Western Stores
A fire control system new to Narromine is to be installed at the Western Stores in the near future. A survey was made this weak with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Brigade Meets at Tomingley
At the annual meeting of the Tomingley Bush Fire Brigade on SAturday afternoon the balance short revealed a credit balance of £1, after…
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