Fire Protection of Buildings
Sydney, September 15.—An amendment of the law in regard to the height of buildings is proposed, the Acting Premier (Mr. Baddeley) said today…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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Nizam Orders Cease Fire
New Delhi, September 17.—Reuter's Agency heard the Hyderabad radio broadcast a statement that the Nizam had ordered a cease fire at 5 p.m. local time. The radio said that Premier Mir Laik Ali announced that the Nizam had ordered…
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Sydney.—As their only means of escape from being burnt to death five persons essayed a dizzy…
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A [?] brigade spraybranch last by the Cenral Fire Brigade in an underground[?] level of the [?]…
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The Central Fire Brigade received a call at 6.19 p.m. yesterday to extinguish a fire burning in the two oil receivers opposite the Fire…
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Hongkong, September 22.—At least 25 people are dead, 56 are in hospital, and 50 are missing…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called out at 2.12 a.m. today to attend a fire in a laundry at 341 Thomas Street. The blaze was…
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New York, September 21.—Ten men suffered burns in an explosion on board the 4,795 ton Greek steamship. Orion, which caught fire after grounding on…
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Hang Kong September 22. (A.A.P.-Reuter).—At least 25 are dead and 56 have been admitted to hospital as a result of a tenement and warehouse fire…
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Report of Mr. H. J. Hore, regeneration ranger, to the monthly meeting of the City Council last night showed that the regeneration…
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Hon Kong (A.A.P.-Reuter), Sept. 23.—Firemen today carried 115 chaned and unrecognisable bodies from the…
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BRISBANE. — A chain of raging bushfires, fed by tinder-dry grass, stretches 800 miles along coastal…
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Warsaw, September 28.—When a fire broke out at a dance organised by the Volunteer Firemen's Organisation, 22 people were burned to death and 30…
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Canberra.—"If war with the Soviet breaks out in Europe or elsewhere and Britain and America are involved, as they inevitably must be, Australia will be at war, fighting, as she did in the two world wars,…
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Word was received by the local police, last night that a bush fire was burning about 45 milles from here in S.A. The location of the fire would seem to be…
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The recent fire in a changehouse at the North mine was the subject of a conference between the management and executive of the…
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A party of twenty men had brought under control by late yesterday afternoon the grass and scrub fire which broke out on Buckalow Station…
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Central Fire Brigade was called to 174 Zebina Street at 4.42 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A shed at the rear of the premises was found to be well alight…
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The Broken Hill Chamber of Commerce is most concerned at the wave of robberies in recent weeks…
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Melbourne. — the information gained in two years' research into atomic energy and…
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