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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 76

Saved Chemicals in Rosebery Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 5

Firemen last night saved a Rosebery works which contained large quantities of chemicals. The fire broke out in the premises of William Hughes,…

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Timber Mill Fire at Rosebery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 7

Firemen hosing highly inflammable goods in the timber mill of William Hughes Pty., Ltd., at Rosebery last night. Many tons of valuable timber was destroyed and machinery was damaged…

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Don't Slacken Efforts For Fire Control

The Land · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 5

Chairman of the Bush Fires Advisory Committee (Mr. H. E. Meager), this week expressed keen satisfaction with the co-operation…

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Factory Built on Fires £656,000 to Remedy Error Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 6

LONDON, April 29.—It is expected that the Government will have to pay at least £656,000 to make safe a £1,000,000 factory,…

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Blaze Big City Tea Store

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1943 · page 1

CROWDS WATCHED firemen battle with a spectacular fire at Griffiths Bros. tea and coffee factory, Wentworth…

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Blaze at Big City Tea Store

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1943 · page 1

CROWDS WATCHED firemen battle with a spectacular fire at Griffiths Bros.' tea and coffee factory, Wentworth…

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Fire Sweeps Tea Factory

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1943 · page 1

Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused this afternoon by a huge fire which swept through the six storey building of Griffiths Bros. Ltd., tea manufacturers, at the corner of Commonwealth…

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Aid for Fire Victim

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 May 1943 · page 11

A donation of £33 was received by the Daily Telegraph yesterday from Miss M. Ellis, of Manly, who asked that it be forwarded to Mrs. L. T…

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Big Tea Store Swept By Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1943 · page 1

Thousands of pounds' worth of damage was caused this afternoon by a huge fire which swept through the six storey building of Griffiths Bros, Ltd., tea merchants, at the intersection of Commonwealth…

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Big Tea Store Swept By Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1943 · page 1

Thousands of pounds' worth of damage was caused this afternoon by a huge fire which swept through the six storey building of Griffiths Bros. Ltd., tea merchants, at the intersection of Commonwealth…

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Fire Brigades Fight Big City Blaze

Truth · Sunday 2 May 1943 · page 15

FIREMEN POURING HUNDREDS of gallons of water on last night's Sussex Street blaze, which gutted a wine merchants' and a printing works. It was their second big fire inside 12 hours. (See story, Page 16.)…

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Valuable Tea Stocks Destroyed In Big Warehouse Blaze Second Fire Guts Printing Works

Truth · Sunday 2 May 1943 · page 16

CROWDS of onlookers watched irreplaceable tea stocks go up in smoke yesterday afternoon when fire swept the four upper floors of Griffiths Bros. building at the corner of Commonwealth Street and Wentworth Avenue…

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Fire guts tea, wine warehouses

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 May 1943 · page 1

In two city fires yesterday, tea and coffee valued at £30,000 were destroyed, and a…

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Two City fires in five hours: damage exceeds £170,000

The Sun · Sunday 2 May 1943 · page 3

Sydney had two big fires within five hours yesterday. Total damage is estimated at more than £170,000. First, at 1.30 pm, was at Griffiths, Bros. eight-story warehouse, corner of…

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Fire in Tea Warehouse

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 7

Big stocks of tea and coffee were destroyed or damaged by water when fire gutted the upper floors of Griffith Bros.' warehouse in Wentworth Avenue on Saturday afternoon. Damage was estimated to be more than £30,000…

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Two Fires in City Damage Estimated at £60,000

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 7

Damage estimated at about £60,000 was caused by two fires in the city on Saturday afternoon…

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Fire Chief Weds Red Cross Worker

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 8

At St. Mary's Cathedral last Friday, the wedding was quietly celebrated of Miss Louise Hesketh, elder daughter of the late Mr. A. W. Hesketh and of…

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Germany Howls Reich "On Fire At Both Ends"

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Monday. -- "The towns of accursed Germany are burning and crumbling and the Nazis are howling. Britons and Americans have now found at language comprehensible to German men and women…

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Tending American Army Wounded Under Fire in Tunisian Battle

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 May 1943 · page 1

DRAMATIC PICTURE of U.S. 4 patrol action in Tunisia during the campaign by America's 1st Army, which led to the capture…

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Tending American Army Wounded Under Fire in Tunisian Battle

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 May 1943 · page 1

DRAMATIC PICTURE of U.S. patrol action in Tunisia during the campaign by America's 1st Army, which led to the capture…

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