Fire Chiefs warning on skyscraper "fire traps"
BRISBANE: A warning that skyscraper apartment buildings could be potential firetraps was given…
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Blow Out That Fire
A 300 h.p. aircraft engine fitted with propellor and mounted on a "gun pedestal" on the back of…
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To test the anti-fire insulation of safes made by a U.K. firm, specimens are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Red Admission on Synagogue Blaze
LONDON: Though Russia's top Red, Nikita Khruschev, in his threehour address to the Supreme Soviet lasit week declared that his government and people were “saddened” by anti-Semitic manifestations in the Western world, news has leaked out of Moscow that a Czarist-type…
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THE extreme bushfire danger in most of New South Wales this summer, points up the care needed to protect property by taking such…
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Fairfield Fire Brigade attended eight fires in the district in three days last week…
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A couple's household possessions were destroyed by fire on Sunday while they were inspecting a…
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NEWCASTLE: The Industrial Group leadership of the Newcastle branch of the Federated Ironworkers' Association is under fire from its members employed in BHP steel works and in the State Dockyards…
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A kerosene heater is knocked over, a chair bursts into smoulders. No-one standing round makes any…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Redfern tenants plan 'moderate, reasonable' Federal Government Under Fire
"It's late -- but it's not too late." . . . "Action will have to come from us ourselves. We've got to stay together against this war of nerves and show them that we're not going to let ourselves be picked off one by one." . . . "We've got to get to the position where the Federal Government feels the…
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Two fires occurred on Monday in Penrith — one off Nepean Avenue, on vacant land, and the other at Klngswood. Penrith…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Heffron Cabinet Under Fire Alp rank and file critical of fares, penal law policies
SYDNEY: Resolutions condemning Labor and Industry Minister Maloney's failure to abolish the industrial penal clauses were carried at the southern and western regional conferences of the ALP last weekend. SHOWING the strength of…
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Co-ordination by radio control of fire brigades in the Blue Mountains areas was tested in a recent exercise…
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Fairfield Police are investigating the cause of a fire which partly destroyed a…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Penrith Fire Brigade
Penrith has an efficient fire brigade, and illustrates what a body of willing, voluntary workers can do when called…
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Fairfield Fire Brigade had one of .its busiest weekends on record over the Easter holiday period…
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Penrith Fire Brigade has been busy a grain this week. It's always the case this time of the year when the schools are…
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Delivery of the new American M60 machine gun early next year would give…
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Penrith officers of the Housing Commission provided a new home for Mr. W. J. Slade and his family within four hours…
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Fairfield Fire Brigade attended more than 10 grass and scrub fires in the district over the weekend. They attended a fire…
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