£50,000 Fire in Sydney
SYDNEY, Wed: A fire which late this afternoon swept through four floors of a building in Surry Hills owned by a manufacturing chemist,…
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News and Notes Valuable Car Destroyed by Fire
A 1948 Jaguar car, the property of Mr. and Mrs. Burns Reid, of Moroco Station, Deniliquin, was totally destroyed by fire on…
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To-day is virtual Christmas Eve for business purposes and there was no lack of response when the fire siren sounded shortly before noon. The…
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LONDON, Thurs.: Covent Garden fire was finally extinguished after 33 hours. In all, 850 firemen drawn from every station in…
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ATTENTION is directed to Regulations 3, 4, and 5 under the Bushfires Act, 1949, .which are as follows:…
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NEW YORK, Mon.: A fire that started in a Christmas tree burned out a large part of Hyndman…
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LONDON, Tues.: Lloyd’s report a “serious outbreak” of fire in the 12,039-ton Union-Castle Mail liner Llangibby Castle at…
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ARMY stores and equipment valued at £100,000 were destroyed today when the wooden gun park at the Wagga unit headquarters of the 7/21 Reconnaisance…
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Holbrook and District Advisory Council: President, Mr L. D. Jones, Holbrook; secretary and treasurer, Mr R. A. Roberts…
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A warning to all landholders in the Albury district, which was also broadcast throughout the western portion of the State…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The co-operation of holidaymakers in exercising every precaution when lighting camp fires was greatly…
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WAGGA. Wed: Wagga police investigating the £100,000 fire at the army gun park here yesterday, believe they know how the fire was…
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A lO-YEAR-OLD girl was admitted to Albury Hospital suffering from second degree burns as a a valiant attempt to save some of the fittings from a burning house a Happy Valley yesterday…
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To combat the growing bush fire danger in heat-striken inland area special conditions in regard to lighting certain classes of have been extended to the whole of the State, exclusive of the coastal region between the Queensland border and…
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HOLLYWOOD, Thurs.: Loretta Young and her three young children were among fashionable film personalities and fashionable…
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WARWICK (Qld), Thurs: Over 300 sheep perished and 4000 acres of grass and timberland were burnt out in a bush fire which, after…
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MILAN, Fri.: Several Italian workers were shot and wounded in fighting between police and demonstrators in Milan today. Five…
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