Council Told of Fire Risk
No special fire precautions for the summer will be taken in Holroyd Municipality by the council…
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Bush Fire Brigade
The annual meeting of "A" Riding (Nepean Shire) Bush Fire Brigade will be held at the School House, Wallacia, next Tuesday, August 24, at 8…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The cigarette shortage is so serious that President of the Board of Trade (Harold…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Communists Under Fire In The United States
THE bewildering nature of American investigations into Communist espionage, coupled with the mysterious "Samarin" and "Kosenkina" incidents, has left observers in other countries wondering just where truth and reality lie…
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PEOPLE who would not support their own fire brigades deserved to be burnt out, Mr. H. F. McCarthy, Pinnacle delegate to the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Stores Depot Blaze
NEARLY 60 army personnel at Penrith military camp turned out about 4 o'clock this morning to help firemen fight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stores Depot Blaze
NEARLY 60 army personnel at Penrith military camp turned out about 4 o'clock this morning to help firemen fight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stores Depot Blaze
NEARLY 60 army personnel at Penrith military campturned out about 4 o'clock this morning to help firemen fight…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Foam Smothers Oil Blaze
Firemen used 24,000 gallons of foam to extinguish a spectacular oil fire at the Pioneer Spring Company's works, McEvoy Street. Alexandria, last night. They used two pressure…
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Two firemen were trapped in a two-storey building, but escaped with burns to the face and…
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Two firemen were trapped in a two-storey building, but escaped with burns to the face and…
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MORE THAN 1000 people last night watched a fire destroy the factory of Armstrong Bros., building contractors, in John Street, Erskineville. FIREMEN Robert Wighton (left) and Roy Weather all, who were rescued from the factory with their clothes…
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NEW YORK, Saturday. US Air Force radar experts are investigating a series of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Puts Out Mystery Pole-top Fire
When the top of a telegraph pole caught fiic mystenously in Llewcllyn Street, Rhodes, yesterday, a local resident…
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A weatherboard cottage in Melrose Street, Mascot, was destroyed by fire last night. The occupants, Mr. Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Family Loses All in Fire
A married couple and their three young children lost all their possessions in a fire which destroyed their home in Melrose Street, Mascot, yesterday afternoon…
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Fire men were burned--one severely--when a fire followed an explosion in the basement of a city fruit shop late today. Victims are:-- George Hennessey, 17,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Speedway Pontoons Destroyed
At about 4.10 a.m. on Friday a fire was discovered in the Army Stores Depot, Penrith Speedway. The outbreak occurred in a stack…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Non-voter found gaol like ordeal of fire
Mr. Leslie Andrews, tune ral director, of Liverpool Road, Ash field, spent 48 hours in Long Bay Gaol this week for failing to vote at the last Referendum. He said today that he had "been through fire."…
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WELLINGTON, (N.Z.), Friday. -- A fire alarm system installed at Ballantye's department store, Christchurch, was removed by the proprietory…
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