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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 139

League Meeting Lacked Fire All Officials Returned. Canterbury-bankstown Secretary Outspoken—“st. George Should Have Won the Competition.”

The St George Call · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 4

500 members and supporters of St. George District Rugby League Football Club who attended the 26th annual meeting at Regent Hall, on Monday night expecting fireworks were disappointed as the meeting was one of the quietest ever held by the club…

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Fresh Pearl Harbor Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 5

PEARL HARBOR, Saturday. Two thousand firemen and volunteers fought a widespread brush fire last night on Halawa…

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Fresh Pearl Harbor Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 3

PEARL HARBOR, Saturday. Two thousand firemen and volunteers fought a widespread brush fire last night on Halawa…

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Fresh Pearl Harbor Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 3

PEARL HARBOR, Saturday. Two thousand firemen and volunteers fought a widespread brush fire last night on Halawa…

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Fresh Pearl Harbor Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 5

PEARL HARBOR, Saturday. Two thousand. firemen and volunteers fought a widespread brush fire last night on Halawa…

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Aust. Speedway Men Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 10

LONDON, Saturday. -- The Speedway Control Board has referred the controversial question of whether Australian riders should be allowed…

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Aust. Speedway Men Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 10

LONDON, Saturday. -- The Speedway Control Board has referred the controversial question of whether Australian riders should be allowed…

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Aust. Speedway Men Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 14

LONDON, Saturday.--The Speedway Control Board has referred the controversial question of whether Australian riders should be allowed…

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Aust. Speedway Men Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 10

LONDON, Saturday. -- The Speedway Control Board has referred the controversial question of whether Australian riders should be allowed…

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No Fire Danger In Planes' Ash-Trays

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 10

Australian National Airways yesterday challenged a statement that ashtrays in Douglas DC3 planes are too close to the curtains…

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Fire at Pearl Harbour Threat To Base

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 1

PEARL HARBOUR, Feb. 28 (A.A.P.). — Army, Navy and Marine firefighters fought for two and a half hours yesterday to…

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Heavy Damage In U.S. Naval Depot Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Friday.--A fire lasting 2 12 hours yesterday heavily damaged naval docks and establishments at Pearl Harbor (Honolulu). Army, Navy, and Marine…

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Homeless After Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 8

With a crash that could be heard for nearly a mile, the slate roof of a fiercely-burning large house in Terry…

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Homeless After Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 8

With a crash that could be heard for nearly a mile, the slate roof of a fiercely- burning large house in Terry…

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Homeless After Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 8

With a crash that could be heard for nearly a mile, the slate roof of a fiercely-burning large house in Terry…

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No Smoke, But Fire

The Sun · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 3

John Smith, 36-year-old laborer, pulled a couple of bad blues in Elizabeth-street last Saturday. John found himself rather short of cigarettes at 1.25 pm…

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Man Charged With Causing Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 5

Police last night arrested a man and charged him with having caused a fire in a house in Crown Street, City. Firemen from brigade headauarters…

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Fire Robs 14 Families Of Home

The Sun · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 2

Sweeping through a 20-roomed residential in Terry-street, West Ryde, late this afternoon, fire…

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Man Arrested After Surry Hills Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 3

Police arrested a man last night and charged him with having set fire to occupied premises. Firemen from headquarters found…

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Father Saws He Set Fire to Oil-soaked Children

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sunday.--A man yesterday confessed to police that he had poured kerosene over his three children and burned them to death on Christmas Day, 1945…

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