200 Paintings Lost In Auckland Fire
Auckland.—John Weeks, an artist and an art school teacher, lost 200 original paintings of watercolors and sketches, valued at £2000, in a fire. The fire, near the centre of the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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Not Guilty of Hall Fire
Melbourne.—A jury in General Sessions found Lionel James Rouse (53), laborer, of Victoria Crescent, Abbotsford, not guilty…
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London, January 18.—All parties are expected to criticise Foreign Minister Bevin's Palestine policy when the House of Commons reassembles today. The…
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Port Lincoln.—A fierce grass fire is sweeping toward Port Lincoln on a five-mile front…
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Auckland—Detectives are investigating a woman's claim that she was rebuffed by firemen when she reported a fire which destroyed…
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Sydney, January 23.—An alert miraculous change of wind saved the town of Nimmitabel from complete destruction by fire early this morning…
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BRISBANE. — Detectives have found no suspicious circumstances in the £50,000 fire which destroyed two floors of the Burns Philp…
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Sydney, January 24.—A man, trapped upstairs in a burning shop at Annandale was rescued by neighbors w[?] placed a ladder to the roof. A fire broke out…
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A small rubbish fire on open ground near Sulphide Street Railway Station was extinguished by the Central Fire Brigade with…
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Adelaide, January 26.—State Cabinet had approved a grant of £100 to Mr. Vivian Peters, the 27-year-old hero of the Port Lincoln freezing works fire tragedy…
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Sydney.—A man and his wife were severely burnt and four people were almost, overcome by smoke when a fire broke out in a commercial artist's audio in Pacific House, George Street, today…
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Central Fire Brigade was called to extinguish a fire in a fish cafe at 167 Oxide Street at 1 p.m. today. The are was in a flue and…
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A quantity of rubbish alight at the rear of premises in Eyre Street, off King Street. South Broken Hill, was extinguished by the fire brigades last night…
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At 1 p.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade received, a call from a fish shop situated at 167 Oxide Street where a chimney flue was alight. No damage…
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At 5.6 a.m. yesterday Central Fire Brigade was called to 484 Cumming Street where a fire had started in a refrigerator. Slight damage was done…
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Tokio, January 30.—Five American soldiers are dead, ten missing (and believed dead), and five seriously injured following a…
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Nimmitabel.—The wool and goods store of Creamer and West was last night gutted by fire which did several pounds worth of damage…
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Tokio, January 31.—Five U.S. soldiers were killed, 10 others are missing, and five were seriously injured as a result of a fire which…
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Katoomba.—A fully furnished four-room flbro cottage at Katoomba was totally destroyed by a mysterious fire which broke out…
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Slight damage resulted when a motor cycle caught alight at the corner of Argent and Oxide Sts. at 7.40 o'clock this morning…
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