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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1973

23 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

Fire engine is popular

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 9 January 1973 · page 9

WHlLE parents are partaking the huge summer sale at the Merrylands Mall, the children will be entertained with an exciting new attraction at the Mall car park…

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Fire Threatens to Engulf House, Land Old Lady Fears for Property

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 9 January 1973 · page 3

A Greystanes woman is living in fear that her weatherboard home and property could go up in a puff of smoke at any second. So strong are her…

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Fire Destroys Association's Headquarters Centre Is Near to Completion

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 6 February 1973 · page 12

In a matter of weeks several groups throughout Holroyd will have an acute accommodation shortage problem solved — in the form of a $180.000 new construction…

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Fire destroys store at Granville

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 20 February 1973 · page 1

Firemen missed serious injury by inches on Thursday night when the roof of a burning building in Fox Street, Granville, caved in…

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"Shule" in Fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 March 1973 · page 9

LOS ANGELES: A Los Angeles church housing both a Protestant and a Jewish…

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Entertainment Scene Fire and Air

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 March 1973 · page 6

Currently on view are two painting exhibitions inducing differing moods of elemental force. At the Rudi Komon Gallery, Ron Robertson Swann…

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Police Scandal on Fire Murders

Tribune · Tuesday 13 March 1973 · page 1

Behind the fire-murder of 15 in Brisbane's Whiskey An Go Go nightclub, and the current hasty prosecution of two police-selected culprits lies one of the…

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Q'ld. fire-deaths trial scandal

Tribune · Tuesday 20 March 1973 · page 12

BRISBANE: In the scandal that surrounds Government and police in the Whiskey Au Go Go night club fire deaths, one of the casualties may have been the…

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Ghettoes relived Souls on Fire, by Elie Wiesel. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. $7.65

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 May 1973 · page 16

Elie Wiesel, born in Sigeh in lYanssylvania, inherited his story-telling vein from his grandfather. He also inherited…

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Mayor’s Urgent Warning Fire threatens big industrial

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 15 May 1973 · page 1

The Mayor of Holroyd, Ald. R. W. Devlin, said it was urgent a fire station was established in the Smithfield-Yennora section of…

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More Fires Threaten Industrial Property

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 12 June 1973 · page 1

A fireman from a station in the Holroyd area said last week be feared the area said a large fire was to break out in the…

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Beth Din Fire Was Arson?

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 June 1973 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Police are treating as arson a fire which has destroyed a large number of documents in the archives…

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Fire Hazard

Tribune · Tuesday 3 July 1973 · page 10

Once again it has taken a disaster to point up a death trap that has been incorporated into so many big city buildings…

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Technion Fires Rocket Glider Students’ Success

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 August 1973 · page 11

HAIFA: Senior Technion aeronautical engineering students launched a solid-fuel rocket-boosted glider of their own design, “Teehnion '73”, at a military test range…

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ACTU inaction under fire

Tribune · Tuesday 4 September 1973 · page 2

SYDNEY, TUESDAY: Bob Hawke's presidential address at Monday's opening of the ACTU Congress was unimpressive, equivocal and disappointing…

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Fire on Smoking

Tribune · Tuesday 11 September 1973 · page 10

From time to time doctors take a potshot at our preconceived ideas of health and good living. In the old days Grandma insisted on the windows being kept open at night; you rubbed…

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Fire Is a Danger to Smithfield

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 11 September 1973 · page 1

With summer on us within a matter of weeks, the Mayor Aid. R. W. Devlin has renewed his plea for the need of a fire station in the heavily industrialised…

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Victoria St. Fire Victoria Street Fire

Tharunka · Tuesday 18 September 1973 · page 7

In a fire in 103 Victoria Street last week, Esther Blaskausky a young black woman was suffocated. Her friend, Joseph Mick, also black, was injured…

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Councils Frantic Efforts Win Smithfield Gets Fire Station Mayor 'good says news'

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 16 October 1973 · page 1

After more than three years of frantic efforts from Holroyd Council, the NSW Board of Fire Commissioners last week began plans for a fire station in the heavily industrialised area…

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Officer Rebuffed Fire Controversy

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 23 October 1973 · page 5

Despite a promise from the NSW Board of Fire Commissioners that a S 150,000 new station will be built at Smithfield next year, controversy has sprung up over the manning of…

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