Fire Brigade Truck Crashes Into Tram
ANSWERING a false alarm, this fire truck crashed into a crowded tram in Regent Street, Redfern, at 5.15 p.m. yesterday…
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Fair Smugglers Melt Away Under Fire
LONDON, Thursday. -- Outsize women smugglers in Ulster revealed their true form recently when Customs officials, literally speaking, melted butter from them. Many women of all shapes and…
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Nine men were injured yesterday when a fire engine, answering a false alarm call, collided with a tram in Regent Street, Redfern, during peak hour traffic. Four of the injured were…
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SYDNEY sweltered today in the first heatwave of the season, the temperature at 11 a.m. being 87.4 degrees. As the day wore on humidity increased,…
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SYDNEY sweltered today in the first heatwave of the season, the temperature at 11.5 a.m. being 87.9 degrees, the highest since February…
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SYDNEY sweltered today in the first heatwave of the season, the temperature at 11 a.m. being 87.4 degrees. As the day wore on humidity increased…
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The canteen at Liverpool military camp was destroyed by fire late last night. Cause of the fire is not known…
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SINGAPORE, Thursday (A.A.P.).--British and Indian troops were called out to break up demonstrations in every town and village in Perak (Malay…
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THE Bushfire Advisory Committee need not worry about investigating the experiments in France wherein tanks were used to fight forest fires, for here in Australia less than three years ago was functioning probably the most efficient bushfire fighting organisation in history…
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THE north-western districts, owing to good summer rainfall, are not usually regarded as bush fire areas, but the danger of fire in the coming…
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Although still early in the season, official bushfire warnings are already being given. Both the Weather Bureau and fire…
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THE Bushfires Advisory Committee, which has done such sterling service in past years despite difficulties, chief of which was lack of manpower, is again right on the job…
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Bushfire danger is so serious that heavy penalties are to be urged against offenders. "The position throughout the…
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A Bren gun carrier bought by the Forestry Commission this week will be converted and tested for use in fighting bushfires…
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SEVERAL valuable orchards in the Castle Hill district were severely damaged by a bushfire today. Women from houses in the locality…
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SEVERAL valuable orchards in the Castle. Hill district were severely damaged by a bushfire today. Women from houses in the locality…
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SEVERAL valuable orchards in the Castle Hill district were severely damaged by a bushfire today. Women from houses in the locality…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tellers Open Fire on Bandit in Lunch-hour Bank Hold-up An armed bandit today held up at gunpoint the crowded Liverpool-street branch of the Bank of NSW
In a split second four shots were fired, three by bank tellers, and, police were told, one by the bandit. After grabbing a chair for support, the bandit…
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A fire in Hasting Road, Castle Hill, which began about noon yesterday, burnt om two acres of orange orchards and menaced six cottages…
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Bushfire threat to food production in New South Wales is more serious than for many years…
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