Child Falls in Fire
A four-year-old child sustained extensive and serious burns to the hands when he. fell hands first into an open fire on Monday. He…
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What Hume Councillors Did Yesterday “Let off” for landowners who disobeyed order on fire breaks
Landholders in Hume Shire who did not obey notices to plough fire breaks will receive special attention next summer, although they will not be prosecuted for failure to do so last summer. This was decided by…
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Beech worth Fire Brigade yesterday received a new urban fire engine. The engine was presented to the Shire President by the…
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WAGGA, Tues.: Fire first swept into Clifton Station on its north-west boundary about 1.30 p.m. on January 24, 1952, a witness told the Supreme Court in Wagga today…
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A utility was extensively damaged by fire when the flame of a lantern set fire to petrol which was being poured into the tank…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Damage estimated at more than £75,000 was caused when a fire burnt out a garage in McCrae st., Swan Hill,…
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TOKIO, Sun.: More than 1300 people were rendered homeless today when fire swept the town of Ebetsu in the…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Detectives are investigating a wilful attempt to set fire to a body building works owned by Stanley Richards…
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WAGGA, Mon.: N.S.W. Bush Fire Committee chairman, Harold Ernest Messer, today told the Supreme Court in Wagga that he did not agree that the fire outside the northern break…
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WAGGA, Tues.: in the Supreme Court in Wagga today two witnesses agreed that mysteries surrounded the cause of the fire on the Westby The Rock railway line on January 22, 1952…
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It is expected that the action for damages which is being heard in the Supreme Court in Wagga on behalf of the Australian Woolbrokers and Produce Co. Ltd. against the Commissioner for Railways will conclude today (as far as the Wagga hearing is concerned) after I I-day sifting…
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MELBOURNE, Wed. : Ten shots were fired by police at four suspected thieves in Sunshine early this morning…
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WAGGA, Thurs.: Mr Justice Herron today ordered the balance of the hearing of an action for damages in the Supreme…
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Chief officer of the Country Fire Authority, Mr Daw, said that since the authority commenced operations in 1945. £396,196 had been…
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GEELONG, Mon.: A fellmongery and scouring works owned by J. J. Fowler, of Breakwater, Geelong, was almost completely gutted by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not Even a Peanut or a Medallion for the Children! Albury’ Coronation Day Celebrations programme ”under fire”
There is genuine disappointment among thousands of Albury people that more has not been done to celebrate Coronation Day. Main complaint is that…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: All vehicular traffic ceased in the inner city at 6.30 to night, and citizens from suburban areas…
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Albury Fire Brigade had its busiest day for some time yesterday. First fire occurred. in a shed behind Rusin’s at 11.40 a.m…
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On Sunday afternoon, Mr. J. Christoff, of Goolgowi district, was badly burned about the hands when a truck from which he was…
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A new and poweric[?] has been installed at [?] quin Fire Station by Mr. Neeve, electrical officer to…
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