Bullets Saved Timber Stack in Mill Blaze
A shot-gun was used to save timber in the fire which gutted Dee's Timber Mill at Krambach early on Tuesday morning. Two well-aimed bullets…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
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£5000 Damage in Krambach Mill Fire
It is estimated that over £5000 worth of damage was caused in a fire at Dee's sawmill at Krambach on Tuesday morning…
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MACKSVILLE, Thurs: The Fire Brigade was called to a fire which occurred in grass and overgrowth on…
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An aboriginal, William Noel Dungay, who pleaded guilty to stealing a saddle and bridle, said in the Kempsey Petty Sessions, on Wednesday, that the articles were probably destroyed in a bush…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday. -- In the House of Representatives today, Sir Arthur Fadden strongly supported the…
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LISMORE.--A two-year-old girl, rescued by her mother from a burning house, died in Lismore Hospital on Sunday. She was Olive Denese…
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PORT MORESBY. -- The sea "suddenly boiled and caught fire" under a ship off the British Solomon Islands…
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The exhibit of the Bush Fire Committee at the Royal Easter Show this year will attract special attention because of the disastrous bush…
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Taree Fire Brigade effected a good save early last night when a cottage at the rear of the Exchange Hotel caught…
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The exhibit of the Bush Fire Committee at the Royal Easter Show this year will attract special attention…
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The exhibit of the Bush Fire Committee at the Royal Easter Show this year will attract special attention…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.--Thirty British migrant children had a narrow escape early this morning when fire destroyed…
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When Kempsey Municipal Council met on Monday night, Mr. D. E. Frazer, captain of Kempsey Fire…
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SEOUL, Tues.--The United Nations' Commander in the Far East, General Mark Clark, has told the Communists that he is willing to resume the Korean cease fire talks…
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Prompt action by Taree Fire Brigade early this morning prevented a fire which broke out in an open yard…
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The Primary Producers' Union was trying to bring the price of milk down to the standard price for butter, Mr. A. McDonell said at a meeting of the Taree Branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council yesterday…
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The Primary Producers' Union was trying to bring the price of milk down to the standard price for butter, Mr. A. McDonell said at a meeting of the Taree Branch of the Mill Zone Dairymen's…
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GRAFTON, Tues. -- A fully laden furniture van ran off the Pacific Highway, 30 miles south of South Grafton, last…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused when a fire gutted a two-storey building on the…
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Gloucester fire brigade was called out to a fire in the northern part of the town at about 1.30 a.m. this morning…
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