Flemington Stand Fire
MELBOURNE, Thursday: The hill stand at Flemington racecourse was destroyed by fire early this morning…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
256 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 13
£500 Damage in Storeroom Fire
A fire which broke out in a storeroom in John Meagher & Co’s. premises in Cooma Street, yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Friday: A young girl was burned about the body at her home to-day. The girl, Elizabeth Hone, 13…
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Goulburn Fire Brigade was called out twice in 20 minutes' last night. The first call came at 6.38 to a chimney: fire at 34…
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Goulburn Fire Brigade was called at 5.6 p.m. yesterday to attend a small rubbish fire in Addison Street, near the Fatima…
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Goulburn City Council's Chief Health and Building Inspector, Mr. A. H. Currell, said last week he has quite…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A New Australian this. morning rescued a 32-year-old woman from her burning bed…
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TRUNG GAI, Vietman, Monday" Senior French Union and Vietminh Rebel Army officers met in the mud-hutted village of Trung Gai, 25 miles north of Hanoi yesterday, for their first talks on practical steps for a cease-fire in…
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HANOI, Wednesday: Indo-China truce negotiators at Trung Gai are reported to have taken up the actual procedure of ordering and carrying out a cease-fire in the seven-year-old war, now in a crucial stage, but about 70,000 crack Vietminh…
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Bush fires may start in wholly unexpected ways and brigades must always be on the alert for the unusual…
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Bush fire damage in New South Wales during the 1953-54 season totalled £607,000. This is revealed in the annual…
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Goulburn Fire Brigade was called out to a chimney fire in a residence in Cartwright Square at 7.20 last night. Firemen used…
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This is 1954 and every possible aid, mechanical and scientific, is being used in the huge task of fighting fires. One of these is…
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SYDNEY, Monday Safe: Robbers fled empty-handed from a burning building at Yennora early to-day—a fire they themselves…
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AHLHORN (North Germany), Wednesday: Princess Margaret fired a burst of 20 m.m. cannon shells from a Meteor jet night…
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WOLLONGONG, Friday: Forty men and women, screaming in terror, battered their way free from a blazing guest house at 2 a.m. to-day, smashing windows in their panic to escape as the flames roared down the halls…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A detective made a brave but futile bid last night to save as elderly woman from a death by fire at her home at Sutherland. The detective, James Foreman,…
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GENEVA, Tuesday: The Anti-Communist Vietnam delegation yesterday formally proposed an Indo-China cease-fire on the present positions under United Nation control. A note containing the…
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In the latest issue of the Bush Fire Bulletin, figures reveal that during the 1953-54 bushfire season, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£100,000 Damage: Melbourne Fire MELBOURNE, Wednesday
MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Damage estimated at £100,000 was caused when fire destroyed the premises…
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