£10,000 Fire at Factory
SYDNEY, Fri.: Fire and an explosion caused more than £10,000 damage to a metal refining factory at Artarmon…
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Two Sisters Died in This Fire Fund opened to aid families who lost everything
More than £65 was subscribed yesterday to help two families who lost everything in the Shelley fire in which two little sisters died holding one another’s hands. The fire broke out in a…
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HONG KONG, Mon.: Peking radio announced today that complete cease-fire and armistice for which the world had…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Girls Set Fire to School
LONDON, Thurs.: A Wolverhampton girl, helped by two other girls, set fire to her school “because things had not been…
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When a fire broke out in a brooder shed, at the poultry farm of Mr. A, C. Coulston, Cemetery Lane, Wodonga, at 10 a.m.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Volunteer Service As Basis for Fire Protection Long Service Award to Fireman Tighe
THE value of volunteer service was stressed at Hay on Wednesday night when the Mayor and aldermen entertained the Hon. H. J. Smith, Chairman of the Fire Board of N.S.W., and other members and…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Ten fruit and vegetable store rooms at Victoria Market were destroyed by fire this morning…
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SAO PAULO (Brazil), Mon.: At least 63 persons were reported dead in a negro dance hall fire early…
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A fire in the ceiling of Albury railway goods yard receiving shed was extinguished with buckets of water by workers at 2.36 o’clock…
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ANCHORAGE (Alaska). Thurs.: Fire and explosions destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of military installations and supplies last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Riverina Bush Fire Damages Claim Judge reserves judgment
SYDNEY, Fri.: Judgment was reserved in the Supreme Court today in the case in which the Australian Woolbrokers and Produce Co. Ltd. has sued the N.S.W. Commissioner for Railways for damages arising out of the big bush fires in January, 1952…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Fire Follows Explosion
SYDNEY, Fri.: An explosion followed by a fire at the Mortlake works of the Australian Gaslight Co. today, damaged plant and a…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Bond for grazier over fire
A Urana grazier who burnt off stubble on his property on March 9 without first giving written warning to his neighbors was…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fire caused 2/- damage : fined £15
A man who lit a fire which caused damage of 2/ during a fire danger period, was fined £15 in Beechworth Court…
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LONDON, Thurs.: Three teenage girls who set fire to their Wolverhampton school-room early month “because they had not…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: A fire officer dismissed after a long record unpunctuality and drinking was reinstated today after a member…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →20 die in petrol fire
BEIRA (Portuguese East Africa), Sun.: At least 20 African stevedores were killed and five ships were set ablaze when…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Heater blamed for costly factory fire
MELBOURNE, Tues.: A kerosene heater is believed to have started a fire which destroyed thousands of pounds’ worth of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pure Fire in striking pre-Doomben sprint
BRISBANE, Tues.: Melbourne sprinter Pure Fire, in his first Brisbane trial, sprinted in fine style in his semi-final gallop today for Saturday’s Doomben Ten Thousand. Other impressive tests for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Big Plunge on Pure Fire, Hydrogen
BRISBANE, Wed.: Pure Fire and. Hydrogen were backed today to win £65.000 in the Doomben been Ten Thousand-Gup double…
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