Short Circuit Caused Lorry Fire
A short circuit caused a fire under the front seat of a two-ton lorry in a garage In Mount Pleasant-street, Maitland, about…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
309 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 16
Weaver Cost, [?]179,756 with Fires
Frank Loyal Weather, former Australian soldier, started fires in japan which caused [?]179,756 damage to Commonwealth property, the Minister…
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Under legislation now ready for Parliament, insurance companies will have to pay 75 per cent, of the cost of the…
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CALCUTTA, May 28. — Fire gutted a large area of Calcutta’s timber trade centre, on the bank of the Hoogly River yesterday,…
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SUVA, May 30 (AAP-Reuter). —Burns Philp’s main store at Bahia, Fiji, was completely gutted by fire on Saturday…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—When fire destroyed a weatherboard house In Richmond, a woman was burnt to death and her mother,…
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CAPETOWN, May 30.—Hundreds of African natives have been left homeless as the result of a fire which swept through a shanty town…
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BRISBANE, Monday. — A fire which destroyed a shopping Block at Crow’s Nest, this morning, caused damage estimated at…
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LONDON, May 31.—Firemen wore breathing apparatus when they put out a Are aboard the 9100 tons cruiser, HMS Sheffield, at Chatham, a…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two firemen were injured when a brick wall collapsed while they were fighting a fire at Redfern yesterday. Damage is estimated at £30,000. The fire started among tome bales of shavings in the…
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SYDNEY, Wed. — A five-year-old boy told detectives last night that he and a seven-year-old boy had begun the fire that gutted…
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The old controversy whether poisonous baits containing phosphorus can cause fires has been settled once and for all,…
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CALCUTTA, June 6.—One person was killed and 26 injured when police opened fire here on crowd who broke up a…
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Fire in a store shed at the rear the printing and stationery works of Thomas Dimmock Pty. Ltd., In High-street, caused…
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MELBOURNE, Wed. — When an old theatre in Burke-road, Camberwell, was burnt down early last night, more than…
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The hearing was continued at Maitland Circuit Court of the case in which Robert Clendinning, of Newara, of Muswellbrook, is claiming…
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Maitland Fire Brigade was called out to false alarms at Burlington Mills this morning. A new fire alarm system was…
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Russia is opposed on aesthetic and moral grounds to the practice of sailors having the names of the "ladies of their choice."…
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VANCOUVER, June 10. — Police and Bremen were alerted for a major fire hazard yesterday after the Canadian-Austra[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires Caused Big Coal Loss Supervision Not Adequate, Says Mr. Barrett
Fires in the past few years had caused a loss of millions of tons of coal and Jeopardised the lives of mine-workers, the Northern District…
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