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Fires & bushfires, 1946

2,699 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 135

Stampede Follows Fire In Tramcar

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 5

Women and excited male passengers jumped from a crowded tram which caught fire at the intersection of Coogee Bay and…

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Stampede Follows Fire in Tramcar

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 3

Women and excited male passengers jumped from a crowded tram which caught fire at the intersection of Coogee Bay and Belmore Roads, Randwick, at 8 o'clock this morning…

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Stampede Follows Fire In Tramcar

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 5

Women and excited male passengers jumped from a crowded tram which caught fire at the intersection of Coogee Bay and…

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Stampede Follows Fire In Tramcar

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 5

Women and excited male passengers jumped from a crowded tram which caught fire at the intersection of Coogee Bay and…

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Stampede Follows Fire In Tramcar

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 5

Women and excited male passengers jumped from a crowded tram which caught fire at the intersection of Coogee Bay and…

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Hose Quenches Fire On Tram

The Sun · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 3

Many passengers leaped from the rear car of a double set of trams today when a fire broke out in the driver's cabin at the…

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£20,000 Damage in Brisbane Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Forty firemen fought for almost two hours a fire which caused more than £20,000 damage to the premises of Olsen and Goodchap,…

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Postal Fires

The St George Call · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 4

The Deputy Director, Posts and Telegraphs, Mr. J. Malone, has staled that fires have broken out recently in the mail Branch, which were traceable…

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Police Fire On Red Agitators

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 May 1946 · page 2

RIO DE JANIERO, Saturday. -- One person was killed and 34 were injured when police fired on a banned Communist…

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Police Fire On Red Agitators

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 May 1946 · page 1

RIO DE JANIERO, Saturday. -- One person was killed and 34 were injured when police fired on a banned Communist…

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Police Fire On Red Aqitators

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 May 1946 · page 2

RIO DE JANIERO, Saturday. -- One person was killed and 34 were injured when police fired on a banned Communist…

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Young Men Burnt Out, Court Told Unionist On "Gruelling" Task A.C.T.U. Plan of Reduced Hours

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Many young men in the paper-milling industry were "burnt out" because of the "gruelling" hours they worked during the war, a union official said today…

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Young Men Burnt Out, Court Told Unionist On "Gruelling" Task A.C.T.U. Plan of Reduced Hours

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Many young men in the paper-milling industry were "burnt out" because of the "gruelling" hours they worked during the war, a union official said today…

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Young Men Burnt Out, Court Told Unionist On "Gruelling" Task A.C.T.U. Plan of Reduced Hours

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Many young men in the paper-milling industry were "burnt out" because of the "gruelling" hours they worked during the war, a union official said today,…

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Young Men Burnt Out, Court Told Unionist On "Gruelling" Task A.C.T.U. Plan of Reduced Hours

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Many young men in the paper-milling industry were "burnt out" because of the "gruelling" hours they worked during the war, a union official said today…

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Thief Starts Fire Week-end Crime

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 4

While Noel Lawless, a recently discharged airman, was being married at Marrickville on Saturday afternoon, a thief broke into…

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British Club Razed by Fire in Germany

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 May 1946 · page 4

LONDON,Tuesday. -- The British officers' lakeside weekend leave club, "The Pig At Anchor," at Steinhude Meer, Germany, was burned…

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Fruit Agents Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 May 1946 · page 20

"I would not send a dead cat to some agents at the City Markets," said Mr. J. T. Bohringer, of Tumbi Umbi at a conference…

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Playing With Fire

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 12

Q.: "Knots about sex." concludes the report of Professor Stout's discourse, "are like any other facts." R.: They are just as much facts…

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Fire Wood Supplies

Nepean Times · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 6

The Resident Engineer, Warragamba Dam, in reply to an inquiry by the Board of the N.D. Hospital, stated that the Water Board was unable to…

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