Business Block Swept By Fire
BRISBANE. — Main business block of Oakey, Southern Queensland, was swept by fire this morning. Boarders at the Royal Hotel…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Fires Take Heavy Toll in Japan
TOKIO, Aug. 19. A.A.P.—Opening a drive against the Japanese people's "amazing indifference" to fires, an official at Allied Headquarters said…
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Mr. W. Logan, a Burleigh (south-east Queensland) banana grower, surveying the fire damage to his plantation. The flames swept through four acres…
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The back verandah of a cottage occupied by Mrs. Clara Huff in Hall-street, Merewether, was damaged by fire last night…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A fire which menaced the whole shopping centre at Oakey, on the Darling Downs, until a south-west wind blew…
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SYDNEY: A strong warning was issued this morning by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) of the serious danger of bushfires. Mr. Baddeley said that it was most exceptional for serious…
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SYDNEY: A bulging 70-foot wall is threatening five terraced homes in Bulwarra Road, Ultimo, as fire still burns fiercely within the ruins of the Ultimo wool store of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd…
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One of Sydney's greatest fires broke out last night at the Ultimo wool stores of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. A company spokesman estimated that the total damage would…
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Hamilton brigade attended a fire in a salvage bin at the corner of Maitland-road and Tudor-street, Hamlton, yesterday afternoon. It…
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When a wall collapsed during the fire at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency wool store at Uitimo on…
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WAGGA, Thursday.—A fire at the premises of Hardy Ltd., hardware merchants, in Bayliss-street, at mid day, which threatened total destrue…
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LONDON, Aug. 22 —Australian and other Empire statesmen attending the Paris Conference are seriously concerned at…
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A panel van caught alight in Woodstock-street, Mayfield last night and the contents of the van Were severely damaged. Brigades…
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SYDNEY: The first of the 80-foot brick walls at the fire-gutted Ultimo wool-store was demolished today. It leaned over slowly, poised at an angle and then crashed with a…
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ALLAHABAD, Friday: Three people were killed and 42 taken to hospital when Hindus and Moslems, with brickbats, knives and lathis, fought pitched battles last night. Police fired on the crowds, and seven of those taken to hospital were treated…
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A fire racing through grass and scrub, towards Hillcrest Maternity Home, Merewether, last night, was stopped by Cook's Hill and Mere…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The two-year-old filly, Talkless, was severely burnt when a stable at the rear of Challis-street, Randwick, caught fire early…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—A fire in Gawler Place, in the heart of Adelaide, extensively damaged the building occupied by M. Hambour and…
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SYDNEY.—A mechanical shovel und bulldozer have begun to clear away hundreds of tons of rubble and bricks from the gutter at…
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BRISBANE: Damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of pounds was caused by a spectacular blaze which extensively damaged the meat works of Thomas Borthwick and Sons (Australia) Ltd., at Doboy early this morning…
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