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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

2,699 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 135

Attempt To Start Fire

The Sun · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 7

Unable to open the booking office safe on Bardwell Park railway station last night, thieves made an attempt to set the office…

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£60 Radio for Fire-fighters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 4

Modern radio equipment suitable for fire-fighting organisation communication c?n be purchased for £60 by shire councils from the…

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Intruders Start Fire in Station

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 5

Vandals who broke into the booking office of Bardwell Park railway station early this morning ransacked the…

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Intruders Start Fire in Station

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 5

Vandals who broke into the booking office of Bardwell Park railway station early this morning ransacked the…

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Intruders Start Fire in Station

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 5

Vandals who broke into the booking office of Bardrwell Park railway station early this morning ransacked the…

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Criticism Of Scripture Teaching Draws Fire

The Sun · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 2

Religious leaders today admitted defects in the teaching of religion in schools, but were up in arms against criticism that "letting clergymen into schools from outside was no good." They were commenting on the…

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Fire or Water — Which Will Be Her Fate?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 3

The old 300-ton wooden steamer Cobaki lying half-submerged in Salt Pan Bay, Northbridge, yesterday. The ship was to have been hauled closer to the shore at high tide in preparation for burning to-day or to-morrow, but on Monday night she filled…

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Fire Guts Part of City Plastic Works

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 7

A FIRE, believed to have been caused by a short circuit, completely gutted the top storey of a plastic factory in Albion Way, Surry…

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Fire Guts Part of City Plastic Works

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 7

A FIRE, believed to have been caused by a short circuit, completely gutted the top storey of a plastic factory in Albion Way, Surry…

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Fire Guts Part of City Plastic Works

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 7

A FIRE, believed to have been caused by a short circuit, completely gutted the top storey of a plastic factory in Albion Way, Surry…

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Fire Guts Part of City Plastic Works

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 3

A FIRE, believed to have been caused by a short circuit, completely gutted the top storey of a plastic factory in Albion Way, Surry…

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Fire Prohibition Lifted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 3

Fires can now be lighted in New South Wales to clear land or destroy rubbish if a permit is obtained from the local shire council…

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The Burrcutter and His Mate Domestic Animals As Fire Look-out

The Land · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 19

"I was reading this morning," remarked the Burrcutter's mate, "how a cat saved a house from being burnt down by waking the…

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Radios Available For Bushfire Fighting

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 19

MODERN radio equipment suitable for [?]fighting organisation communication can be purchased for [?] by N.S.W. shire council from the…

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Don't Try To Read Your Dreams —It's A Dangerous Game! Don't try to read your dreams, you may be playing with fire, warns this noted psychologist. Citing the tragic case of 23-year-old Sonia Araquistain, he contends that amateur dreamreaders can do untold harm

The World's News · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 2

NOBODY really knows the stuff dreams are made of. That's why it's dangerous for the layman to try to interpret the visions born…

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Fire in Shop

Truth · Sunday 7 April 1946 · page 29

Neighbors and passers-by dragged showcases and bundles of stock from a burning ladies' millinery lock-up shop in Victoria Rd., Granville, early…

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Fire-bugs busy in Java BATAVIA

The Sun · Sunday 7 April 1946 · page 3

INDONESIAN extremists in new acts of incendiarism have set fire to more houses in Bandoeng…

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No Fire in Rimfire Book Gets Fillip From Phillip

Truth · Sunday 7 April 1946 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Rimfire, who has been boom in Melbourne, again landed a body blow to punters when he ran a shocking race in the Powers-court Handicap at Mentone this afternoon…

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Bedroom Fires Fought

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 3

Fires in bedrooms were checked in time to prevent serious damage to two residentials yesterday. One fire broke out in a bedroom…

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