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Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 113

Fire Alarms Taken Away

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 2

WELLINGTON, (N.Z.), Friday. -- A fire alarm system installed at Ballantye's department store, Christchurch, was removed by the proprietory…

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Fire Alarms Taken Away

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 2

WELLINGTON, (N.Z.), Friday. -- A fire alarm system installed at Ballantyne's department store, Christchurch, was removed by the, proprietors…

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Fire Alarms Taken Away

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 2

WELLINGTON, (N.Z.), Friday.--A fire alarm system installed at Ballantyne's department store, Christchurch, was removed by the proprietors…

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Fire Alarms Taken Away

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 2

WELLINGTON, (N.Z.), Friday, A fire alarm system installed at Ballantyne's department store Christchurch, was removed by the proprietors…

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Cease Fire Conditions in Kashmir

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 7

NEW DELHI, Friday.--The United Nations India-Pakistan Commission has accepted conditions for a…

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New South Wales Fire Brigades

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 5

N.S.W. Fire Brigades want 'en for the Permanent Staff. A career with good prospects 1 offered to ambitious young…

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Rocket Range Unionists’ Rights Under Fire

Tribune · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 1

While men who served in Hitler’s forces and boast about it are working on the “super secret” Rocket Range, Australian trade union officials are being ordered to keep out for…

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Fire Brigade Clean-up Urged In N.Z.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 9

WELLINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Sweeping changes in the control of fire prevention and…

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Police Inquiry Into Train Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 2

DETECTIVES are investigating the cause of a fire which destroyed three sections of a train carriage at Tempe…

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Police Inquiry Into Train Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 3

DETECTIVES are investigating the cause of a fire which destroyed three sections of a train carriage at Tempe…

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MacArthur's Labour Order Under Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 1

TOKYO, Aug. 29 (A.A.P.-Reuter).— The British and Russian delegates on the Allied Control Council on Friday criticised General MacArthur's order against Japanese…

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Hundreds Flee in Terror: Big Blaze in City Building

The Sun · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

Hundreds of occupants of Rawson Chambers, city, fled in terror when fire, spreading swiftly, turned the two top floors into an inferno shortly before 9 am today. By a miracle, no one was trapped, but the wife of the…

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Hazardous Task for Fire-fighter

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

A FIREMAN on top of the long escape ladder, standing astride the hose, signals to colleagues. below to turn on…

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Hazardous Task for Fire-fighter

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

A FIREMAN ON TOP of the long escape ladder, standing. astride the hose, signals to colleagues below to turn on the water while fighting the fire which broke out in Rawson Chambers, near Central Railway, this morning…

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Hazardous Task for Fire-fighter

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

A FIREMAN ON TOP of the long escape ladder, standing astride the hose, signals to colleagues below to turn on the water while fighting the fire which broke out in Rawson Chambers, near Central Railway, this morning. The whole top floor Was blazing when this photograph was taken…

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Fire Destroys Stocks in Jewellery Store

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Several thousand pounds worth of crystalware and crockery were destroyed by fire last night…

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Spectacular Fire Destroys Floor of Building Thousands See Drama

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

WHILE thousands watched, firemen from eight brigades this morning mastered a raging blaze which gutted the top storey of Rawson Chambers,…

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Spectacular Fire Destroys Floor of Building Thousands See Drama

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

WHILE thousands watched, firemen from eight brigades this morning mastered a raging blaze which gutted the top storey of Rawson Chambers,…

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Spectacular Fire Destroys Floor of Building Thousands See Drama

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

WHILE thousands watched, firemen from eight brigades this morning mastered a raging blaze which gutted the top storey of Rawson Chambers,…

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Spectacular Fire Destroys Floor of City Building Thousands See Drama

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

WHILE thousands watched, firemen from eight brigades this morning mastered a raging blaze which, gutted the top storey of Rawson Chambers,…

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