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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1947

2,769 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 139

Ambulance, Fire Brigade Hoaxed

The Sun · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 3

A person with a perverted sense of humor hoaxed ambulance officers and firemen this afternoon…

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Fire Brigade, Ambulance Press Hoaxed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 3

Hoax messages brought ambulance cars, fire engines and newspapermen to the corner of George and Hunter Streets…

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Fire Brigade, Ambulance Press Hoaxed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 3

Hoax messages brought ambulance cars, fire engines and newspapermen to the corner of George and Hunter Streets…

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Fire Brigade, Ambulance Press Hoaxed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 3

Hoax messages brought ambulance cars, fire engines and newspapermen to the corner of George and Hunter Streets…

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Bunnerong Men Ate Lunch As Fire Staged

The Sun · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 2

Owing to ban on overtime no work was done during the lunch hour to extinguish a fire which broke out at Bunnerong powerhouse at 11.30 am on April 22, the day on which Sydney…

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Fire Blazed While Men Ate Lunch

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 11

Men did not work to extinguish a fire which broke out during their lunch hour at Bunnerong…

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Crew Put Out Fire in Tram

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1947 · page 4

The driver and conductor extinguished a small fire in a tram in City Road last night before the Redfern Fire Brigade arrived…

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Fire Stopped by Watchman

Truth · Sunday 4 May 1947 · page 60

A nightwatchman fought flames and choking fumes with a chemical extinguisher to save wool valued at £50,000 in a city…

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Fear of Explosion at Chemical Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 May 1947 · page 14

CLOUDS of smoke poured from a small chemical laboratory in Darlington today, when a quantity of mustard oil caught fire…

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Oil Catches Fire in Laboratory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 May 1947 · page 9

Bruce Boddington, 19, of Cremorne, was almost overcome by fumes when mustard oil caught fire at the laboratory of Bayer Pharma Pty., Ltd.,…

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Woman's Tale House Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 May 1947 · page 21

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--A woman alleged at Newcastle Coroner's Court today that she had seen her husband set fire to her home. THE woman, Clara May Haves, was…

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Woman Tells Of House Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 May 1947 · page 21

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--A woman alleged at Newcastle Coroner's Court today that she had seen her husband set fire to her home. THE woman. Clara May Haves, was…

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Woman Tells Of House Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 May 1947 · page 21

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--A woman alleged at Newcastle Coroner's Court today that she had seen her husband set fire to her home. THE woman, Clara May Hayes, was…

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Man Set Fire to House, Coroner Told

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 May 1947 · page 23

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--A detective alleged at Newcastle Coroner's Court today that a man had been seen to enter a…

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Minister Under Fire On Meat For Britain Scheme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 May 1947 · page 4

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. Pollard, in the House of Representatives yesterday declined to give details of the Government's scheme for increasing meat supplies to Britain…

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200 Chickens Die In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1947 · page 3

More than 200 chickens were incinerated when a tire destroyed a brooder house at the White Leghorn Stud Poultry Farm, Milperra,…

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200 Chickens Die In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1947 · page 3

More than 200 chickens were incinerated when a fire destroyed a brooder house at the White Leghorn Stud Poultry Farm, Milperra,…

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200 Chickens Die In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1947 · page 2

More than 200 chickens were incinerated when a fire destroyed a brooder house at the White Leghorn Stud Poultry Farm, Milperra…

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200 Chickens Die In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1947 · page 3

More than 200 chickens were incinerated when a fire destroyed a brooder house, at the White Leghorn Stud Poultry Farm, Milperra,…

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200 Chickens Die In Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1947 · page 2

Mere than 200 chickens were incinerated when a fire destroyed a. brooder house at the White Leghorn Stud Poultry Farm, Milperra,…

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