Grazier Dies In Station Fire
Brisbane.—A mystery fire at Kingaroy (North Queensland) burned to death a wealthy grazier and destroyed a £5000 cattle…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
373 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 14 of 19
Three Fire Engines Attend Fires
Yesterday three local fire fighting applicances answered two calls. The first was to the Proprietary mine lease at 11.15 a.m. when a disused shed was…
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Central Fire Station had two yesterday. First call was at 11.15 a.m., when one appliance went to a fire in…
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FLAMES SHOT UP 100 ft. in a blaze at Crystal Palace, London, last week. A fireman is silhouetted in the darkness…
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Firemen from Central and South Brigades last night fought a timber fire at the old Central mine for more than 1½ hours…
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London, November 5.—A 10 year-old boy who was taught to play with fire by a woman psychiatrist appeared in Hastings Juvenile Court on a charge of arson at his school…
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London, November 5.—Officers of MT5 were called in by the War Office tonight after a preliminary inquiry pointed to sabotage as the…
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On Saturday night the Central Fire Brigade attended a fire at the Central Mine Lease, where an old mill building caught alight. No appreciable…
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Sydney.—More than 100 firemen and six brigades last night fought a blaze which gutted a Botany tannery. The damage was…
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Speaking for and on behalf of the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling, the following appeal is made by the president…
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Speaking for and on behalf of the pastoralists Association of West Darling the following appeal is made by the president, Mr.R. L. Caskey,…
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Speaking for and on behalf of the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling the following appeal is made by the president. Mr. R. L. Caskey,…
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Sydney, November 9.—Country hotels were a disgrace to Australia, Mr. A. Leslie, acting general secretary of the N.R.M.A. said today. Mr. Leslie was…
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Brisbane.—Bushfires in many paris of Queensland are destroying valuable grazing land and causing stock losses…
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Serious damage was caused to goods when a fire broke out this morning in a wood and iron shed at the rear of premises occupied…
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Ballarat —A truck loaded with merry-go-round horses and other equipment was destroyed by fire at Leigh Creek, five miles from…
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Two small fires were extinguished by local brigades yesterday, and one malicious false alarm was answered. The false alarm, which was at the corner of…
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New York, November 14. —Six sleeping children died in a fire which swept through a wooden house in the little mining town of Garrett, Pennsylvania. The victims, ranging in age from…
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Mr. R. Hardingbam of Sunnyda[?]e Station, last night saw a practical illustration of the carelessness, which starts bushfires…
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Canberra,—A plea for Government action to make available a drug which he claimed was a "sure-fire cure for airsickness," was made by Mr. Cameron (Lab., S.A.) amid noisy interjections in the House of Representatives. Mr. Cameron said that the drug,…
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