Security Officers Probe Fire
CANBERRA, Fri. : Commonwealth Security Officers are probing the cause of last night’s fire in the Aero-Nautical…
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Burnt-out Culvert to Be Replaced
Country Roads Board advised Chiltern Council yesterday that plans and specifications tor the replacement of the burnt out…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Australian tennis officials today denied that 18-year-old Wimbledon doubles champions, Lewis Head and Ken…
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A heater in a house at Lowesdale, near Corowa, set fire to a wall at 8.45 o’clock last night. Smoke was dense and Corowa…
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Blazing with spectacle and afire with rugged action, "Red Skies of Montana" presents Richard Widmark as a daredevil smoke…
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Inquest into the death of two children the daughters of Mr and Mrs Geoff Hurley, who were burnt to death in a fire at Shelley on…
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Members of the Corowa Fire Brigade had a cold trip 20 miles into the country on Monday evening last, only to find…
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FRESNO (Cal.), Sun.: At least separate fires, believed to have been started by arsonists, broke out almost simultaneously in major…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Fire caused about £10,000 damage to a tonstorey, of a factory in Bourke. st. Waterloo, today…
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NEW YORK, Sun.: Fifteen men were burned to death in a forest fire near Willows, Calif, last night…
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Albury Fire Brigade extinguished a fire which destroyed an ice works office, and two chimney fires at the week-end. A fire in…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Police are searching for a man who deliberately tried to set fire to a house with flaming petrol in Seacombe street, North Fitzroy, early today. The owner of the house,…
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Importance of making suitable preparations to guard against fire during the coming summer months was discussed at length…
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TOWNSVILLE, Wed.: Flying debris in a spectacular foundry blaze in Townsville early today hurled several onlookers to the…
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Chimney fire in a house in Dean street yesterday was extinguished by smothering by Albury Fire Brigade. Fire occurred…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: A huge fire, which tonight destroyed a four-storey factory in Redfern, paralysed Sydney’s rail transport for nearly three hours…
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PERTH. Sun.: Six men were injured in an explosion during a fire which destroyed a nine-room luxury house at Marmion Beach,…
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A combustion stove in a home in Olive St. was responsible for igniting woodwork on a living room wall at 1.26 p.m. yesterday…
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New Holbrook Fire Station, which has been recently erected…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by fire which destroyed two wooden shops in High street,…
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