Titled Lady Perishes In Fire
LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Lady Margaret Elizabeth Gaunt, the 79-year-old divorced wife of Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, perished…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
158 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 8
Culprits In Radio Fire Arrested
QUITO (Ecuador), Tuesday (A.A.P.)âMost of persons responsible for the burning of the radio station on Saturday night…
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NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.).—A second person died yesterday from burns received on Sunday when an apartment house was…
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AUCKLAND. (N.Z.)., Sunday. (A.A.P-Reuter).—Two lives were lost when a fire destroyed a large boarding house at Remuera an…
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BRISBANE, Fri.—Forty cars were damaged, many badly, when a fire broke out in the body repair division of Charles Hope…
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LAKE WOOD, Fri. (A.A.P.).—A Michigan mother and her eight children and a man who boarded with the family were…
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NEWCASTLE, Tues. — Some progress has been made with the work of controlling the fire which broke out in Ayrfield No. 3…
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About 10.30 yesterday morning, the Grafton Fire Brigade received a call to Runnymede Hospital, Grafton…
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AUCKLAND, Sun. (AAP-Reuter).—Bruce Gordon, aged 5, was fatally burned, and another child severally burned, when they were…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.)—Five unexplained explosions and fires involving military installations have taken place in Turkey…
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BALLARAT, Fri.—The racehorse, Miss Pameleius, was killed by a fire which destroyed a section of Mr. E. W. Craig's Shady…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—A fire, whick started in a cover fan in the Lyric Theatre during a session last nighty was put out with…
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LISMORE, Monday.—The Pie Hotel at Byron Bay was gutted by fire in. 45 minutes this afternoon…
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SHANGHAI, Wed. (A.A.P. Reuter).—Navigation of the Yangtse Riverr in the vicinity of Nanking has been suspended…
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After a hall-hour battle shortly after midnight, a bucket midnight, a bucket brigade had a fire at the E.S. and A. Bank, Ulmarra, under control…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—A mysterious fire at the Schofields R.A.A.F. station this morning destroyed the flying control tower and…
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LISMORE, Thurs.—Firemen to-day were forced to use masks to fight a fire in a tank containing between 1400 and 1500 gallons of bitumen, at B.H.P…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North Coast News Smoke Fires for Maclean Farmers
Mosquitoes have been very troublesome on the Lower Clarence during the past few weeks and farmers have been forced to light smoke fires in…
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BRISBANE, Thurs.—More than £40,000 damage was caused by a spectacular fire which earlyl to-night gutted a body building…
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A YOUTH who was found in the building after the hank fire at Ulmarra late on Wednesday night appeared in the Ulmarra Children's Court later on a charge of arson. Aged 17, the youth was…
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