Fire Stations To Stay; Evatt Acts
The Acting-Chief Secretary (Mr. Clive Evatt) today countermanded the action of the chairman of the Fire Brigades'…
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"Garden Palace" Fire Was Blessing In Disguise
FEDERAL Cabinet has announced that at its next meeting it will discuss the possibility ot holding a monster Pacific Exposition in Sydney early in 1948. Should this eventuate it is to be hoped it will meet a better fate than the great exhibition of 1878. This colossal affair was housed in a building on the model of the London Crystal palace specially erected in the Botanic Gardens, and it was totally destroyed by fire early in the morning of…
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Fifty-mile-an-hour gusts of hot wind sent temperatures soaring in Sydney today, and fanned 10 bushfire outbreaks in the outer suburbs…
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The worst bushfires this season are raging in the Lindfield-Chatswood area. Although houses in the vicinity are not threatened at present, it is feared that a. wind change would bring them into the danger line. FIREMEN from many stations have…
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On the hottest September 20 for 11 years, Sydney yesterday experienced a maximum temperature of 82.3 degrees and a…
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FANNED by hot winds, bush and scrub fires broke out in several areas on the North Shore yesterday. This fire got…
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WASHINGTON, Thursday.--A wonder fuse, to explode shells or bombs is revealed by the Navy…
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THE BOARD OF FIRE Commissioners this morning carried out its plan to close down 23 suburban stations, despite the…
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Despite a protest by the Acting Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, the N.S.W. Board of Fire Commissioners will close down immediately 23 of the 76 metropolitan fire stations…
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An open conflict developed today between the. Acting Chief Secretary (Mr. Clive Evatt) and the Board of Fire Commissioners. The Board declined to accept Mr. Evatt's direction not to close…
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The Acting Chief Secretary (Mr. Clive Evatt) yesterday intervened to prevent the closing of 23 fire stations in the metropolitan area. The 23 fire stations which were…
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N.S.W. Fire Brigades Board's decision to close down 23 of 76 suburban stations has started an outcry which today echoed in State Cabinet, where…
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IN an appeal to people in bush-fire danger areas to make fire-breaks and clear away inflammable material wherever necessary, the acting Chief…
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APPEALING to all concerned in bushfire danger areas to [?] firebreaks and to clear away inflam[?] material the Acting Chief…
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Twenty - three metropolitan fire stations were closed down yesterday in defiance of a request by the Acting- Chief Secretary (Mr. Clive Evatt)…
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The Acting Premier, Mr. Baddeley, yesterday said that he would have inquiries made next week into the action of the…
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A demand for ministerial control of the N.S.W. Fire Board would be made at next week's meeting of the State…
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NEW YORK, Sat. -- A volunteer fire chief who found business too slack started fires so that he could make a good showing…
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AS I was just about to go off to sleep I was awakened by the clang! clang! of the fire bell and then the screaming…
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CHARLES JACKSON (11), Church St., St. Peters, received severe lacerations to the hands, legs and face when he set fire to a celluloid…
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