Child's Pyjamas Catch Fire
While Shirley Breed, aged three years, of Oura road, Wagga, was standing in front of the fire at her home yesterday afternoon, her…
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Heavy R.A.F. Raid Big Fires in Mainz
LONDON, Wednesday.—It is authoritatively stated that a strong force of bombers last night attacked Mains, the important German transport center…
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LONDON, Thursday. — The R.A.F. dropped hundreds of tons of bombs, including 50,000 incendiaries, on Mainz on…
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LONDON, Friday.—The fires started at Mainz on Tuesday night were too much for the town firefighters, according to the Air…
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A suggestion by Cr Lindley that council purchase 4 knapsacks and a dozen fire beaters was adopted during a brief discussion at last week’s…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Prompt action by firemen and nuns effected the removal of some hundred patients from threatened sections of the building to…
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OWING to the heavy winter rains and the luxuriant growth of herbage throughout the Riverina members of the Willimbong Shire…
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LONDON, Monday.—Enemy long range guns opened up twice over Dover Straits before dusk last night…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The D.F.O. has been awarded to Pilot Officer T. E. W. Howes, aged 20 years, of Brisbane, for putting out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rock Bush Fire Brigade
A public meeting convened by The Rock Bush Fire Brigade was held in the Masonic Hall On Saturday last, when Mr. C. Condon (president) presided. Messrs…
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Owing to the heavy winter rains and the luxuriant growth of herbage throughout Riverine, members of the Willimbong Shire Council, Leeton, are…
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The Mitchell Shire, in an advertisement in this issue, urges all property owners and occupiers within the shire to put in firebreaks in order to…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—About £50,000 damage resulted in the Yoffa Hosiery and Knitting Mills, Brunswick, from a fire early this…
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The annual meeting of the Borambola Bush Fire Brigade will be held in the Borambola Hall on Monday night next at 8 o'clock…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.). Wed.—Damage estimated at several thousand pounds was caused by a spectacular fire in a four-storey…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Arthur Tennant, aged 40 years, one of eight men injured in an oil fire on Sydney Harbor last night, may…
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SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA—At the same time that the Japanese raiders were searching unsuccessfully for targets in the…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The R.A.F. started many fires at Frankfurt Wiesbaden last night, says the Air Ministry news service…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fifth Columnists at Adelong? Deliberate Attempt to Fire Rubber Salvage
IT IS a difficult thing to say, and even more difficult to realise, that there are one or more saboteurs in Adelong; but in view of the happening at a lat hour on Saturday night last it would appear that some person, or persons, as yet unknown, made a deliberate attempt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Costly Fire at Narrabri
Damage estimated at £25,000 was caused when a fire gutted the business premises of Foxe & Co., Narrabri, on Saturday. Fears that a serious food…
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