Spectacular Casino Blaze
CASINO:--Three bulk stores were completely gutted by fire on Thursday night in what was described…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
324 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 17
Nightwatchman Averts Big Fire
Vigilance of the Grafton night watchman, Mr. S. Hutchings, averted a big outbreak of fire in Pidcock's hardware store, Prince street, at 1.45 a.m. yesterday…
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Presence of mind of staff members saved fire damage at Mackellys, of Grafton, yesterday afternoon…
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MACKSVILLE, Thurs.--Nat Gillett narrowly escaped severe burn when a motor-boat was destroyed…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--Liquid Fire, early favourite for the Flying Handicap at Canterbury, on Saturday…
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TOKIO, Thursday.--Antiaircraft fire hit Wing Commander Ron Susans' Meteor jet fighter as he…
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WAGGA, Thurs.--Six Holbrook graziers told a Wagga bushfire inquiry to-day they had incurred losses which totalled more than…
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Liquid, Fire, a recruit from mixed stakes class, not only outclassed his opponents to win the Flying…
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TUNIS. Mon.--Police fired tommy guns at Nationalist demonstators in Tunis yesterday after…
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MACLEAN.--The Board of Fire Commissioners has written to Maclean Council at its meeting on Tuesday…
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Grafton Fire Brigade, under Station Officer F. Knight, turned out late yesterday afternoon to Fraser…
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An experiment with a smoke candle at the Grafton Drill Hall yesterday brought the Grafton Fire Brigade…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Damage estimated at more than £100,000 was caused by a spectacular fire which burnt out the top two floors of Bradford House, Flinders lane, City, this afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Investigation of artificial rain-making to combat bush-fires has been…
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SYDNEY, Monday. ---Bush fires caused at least £6,500,000 damage in N.S.W. between October, 1951, and March, 1952, the State Bush Fire Committee has reported to the State Government. The chairman of the…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Tuesday-- Although the damage caused by bush fires on the North Coast last summer ran into millions of pounds, Shires in the A division extending from the…
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Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday fined Eric Richardson, grazier, of Jackadgery, £5 on a charge of lighting a fire on his property at a time when…
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NEW YORK, Monday.--An oil tanker and an oil barge collided and caught fire in the Delaware River last night…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Wed The Dorrigo Shire Council has decided to advise the Department of Local…
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LISMORE, Sun.--The amusing series of major fires over the past 12 months in Lismore continued when…
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