Claim Refrigerator Caused Fire
SYDNEY, Wed. -- A couple who claimed £10,000 damages from the distributors of a kerosene refrigerator, lost their case…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Widow's Evidence On Yamba Fire
MACLEAN, Wed.--The Coroner's Court resumed at Maclean to-day to take evidence from Monica Casey, widow of Lawrence Martin Casey. Mrs. Casey had been discharged from the Lower…
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A Supreme Court jury decided in Sydney on Wednesday, after a five-day hearing, that a refrigerator had not caused a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spectacular Blaze At South Grafton
A spectacular blaze, which set fire to street trees and endangered a telephone post, broke out among flood debris at the western end of Spring street, towards Cowan street, South Grafton, last…
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LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.).-- Fire and ether damage to the hull of the 28,000 ton Orient liner, Oronsay. could total up to…
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LONDON, Mon. (AAP).-- The fire in the new 28,000 ton. Orient liner, Oronsay, was brought under control last…
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MACLEAN.--The Fire Brigade at Maclean took delivery to-day of a new tender, a thoroughly recondition engine from the…
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A serious fire at the electrical engineering works of Atkins and Holdt, in Price street, Grafton, was averted…
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LEDUC (Alberta) Sunday. (AAP) .--Three persons were Killed and 15 injured when an explosion of a gas heating…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--A boy aged five years and nine months was burned to death when fire destroyed the tent in which he…
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GARRETT (Pennsylvania), Mon. (AAP).--Six sleeping children died in a fire which swept through a wooden house…
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NEW DELHI; Mon. (AAP).-- India is reported to have sent a note to Peking, Chinese Communist capital, suggesting a…
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IWAKUNI, Wed (AAP-Reuter).--A R.A.A.F. officer to-day died from burns received when a tent was destroyed by fire at…
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Bush fires had been caused by Government departments and semi-Government bodies burning firebreaks without…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--A woman was burned to death, a man seriously burned, and a bedridden woman carried to safety early this morning when two cottages…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Arson Squad detectives believe it will take more than a week to complete investigations into the fire which…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Lay-by purchases with The Hub Ltd., worth more than £100,000, were destroyed in the fire which…
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The Sawtell Fire Brigade is now an established fact following a meeting- last Thursday night, which was attended by…
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A Grafton man, Mr. C. O'Brien, staff manager of Coles in Sydney, was relieved from duty three minutes before a…
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A short but impressive ceremony marked the handing over of the equipment for Sawtell's new fire brigade to the…
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