Man Charged After Liner Set on Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.— A man aged 21 was charged at Central Police Station this afternoon with having set fire to the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 30
Lightning Fires Film at Theatre
SYDNEY, Sunday.—When a projectionist was winding a spool of film in the projection box at the Plaza Theatre, Waterloo, last night,…
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SYDNEY: Two boys, who were burned to death in a factory at Newtown were in the habit of playing in the building without the knowledge of the proprietor, the City Coroner (Mr. R. M. Stewart, S.M.) was told today…
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Fire severely damaged the poppet head and loading gantry at the disused Seaham No. 2 mine, West Wallsend, on Saturday afternoon…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 24. A.A.P.—Easton, the Connecticut home of Helen Keller, the blind and deaf scholar and author, was burned to…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—A savage attack on British and Australian activities in the Pacific was made by the Chicago "Tribune" writer, Harold Smith, who has just returned from a tour of the…
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TOKIO, Nov. 25. A.A.P.—A wind-fanned fire destroyed 814 houses in the Northern Honshu town of Goshogawara…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Firemen, wearing smoke helmets, worked in relays in scorching heat and blinding smoke to quell a…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two boys who were burned to death in a factory at Newtown Were on the premises without the knowledge of the…
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LITHGOW, Monday.—A bushfire which broke out this morning near. the Newnes State pine forest is being strictly patrolled…
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The bushfire danger is increasing in the district, says the State Weather Bureau. The bureau's forecast for the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Boiling chemicals overflowed on to an oil furnace and started a fire at the Ferro Enamels (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. factory in…
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Greater Newcastle Council adopted a Mayoral minute last night calling a conference to discuss the city's fire protection of Greater Newcastle…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Douglas Frederick Birch, 30, an unemployed Victorian labourer and a student of Indian Yoga, told the police he…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A fire which broke out in a storehouse of Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd., at Matraville, to-night, was quickly…
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LONDON, December 1. A.A.P.— The Princess Royal, ending her four-day visit to Scotland, started her own 21-gun salute…
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While the chairman of the Fire Board (Mr. T. J. Smith) was congratulating New Lambton Fire Brigade on its 50th anniversary…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — A second big fire occurred this afternoon at the premises of Austin Paper Manufacturers Ltd., at Matravillle, while…
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William Beavis, 26, carrier, of Wood-street, Lorn, was burnt about the face, forearms and legs yesterday when his lorry caught alight…
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Dorothy Woodward of Newcastle Girls' High School, won the girls' section, 14 and under 17 years, in the bushfire section of the annual…
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