Fire in Class Room at Mental Home
A building and its contents, situated in the grounds of the Watt-street Mental Home, were damaged by fire on Saturday afternoon. Cook's…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Sabotage Feared Ship Fire Causes £2,000,000 DAMAGE
LONDON, March 3. A.A.P.—It is unofficially estimated that damage totalling £2,000,000 was caused by the fire which gutted the Empire Waveney (formerly the German prize ship Milwaukee) at Liverpool…
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LONDON, March 4. A.A.P.—Official circles discount suggestions that sabotage was responsible for the fire which gutted the 16,757-ton liner…
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CAIRO, March 4. A.A.P.—At least 16 persons were injured When Egyptian troops and police Opened fire against crowds stoning a British…
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A baking oven and its contents were damaged by fire in the transformer room at Newcastle Electric Supply powerhouse, Sydney-street,…
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The giant Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth, which was used as a troopship throughout the war, and which carried many contingents of Australian troops, was damaged in a fire at Southampton docks yesterday. She was being refitted for passenger duty…
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LONDON, March 8. A.A.P.—The Queen Elizabeth, the biggest liner in the world, was found to be on fire at Southampton to-day. A column of smoke was seen coming from the liner…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Home Office scientific experts and high officials from Scotland Yard have been rushed to Southampton to investigate the fire on the world's biggest liner. Queen Elizabeth, which started at 9 a.m. yesterday. After a Preliminary inquiry the…
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LONDON, March 10. A.A.P.—Fire broke out in the boiler room of the aircraft-carrier Victorious at Devonport on Friday night…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Damage estimated at £2500 was caused by a fire which badly damaged Revesby Theatre, Bankstown, shortly after…
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Three grass fires were reported in the district yesterday. One was in Cameron-street, Wallsend, another off Croudace-street, Lambton, and…
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LONDON, March 11. A.A.P.—Dutch troops fired on Dutch Nazi S.S. women who rioted in a women's internment camp in Amsterdam,…
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SYDNEY, Monday—George Hooley, 22, a Cronulla fireman, was being driven to a bushfire in a taxi when it skidded on gravel and crashed into…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An out-break of fire did considerable damage to the motorship Momba at Balmain to-day…
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WYONG, Friday.—Mr. D'arcy Rose, Upper Hunter's member in the Legislative Assembly, was badly burned on his dairy farm at Gilliby…
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Cook's Hill and New Lambton brigades were summoned to three small fires on Saturday. A fire in an oven at the premises…
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BATAVIA, March 18.—Indonesians set fire to houses at a refugee centre at Bandoeng, in Western Java. Allied troops extinguished the fires,…
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LONDON, March 18. A.A.P.—An Australian airman who plans to control the bushfire menace by the use of helicopters left…
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LONDON, March 19. A.A.P.—The Minister for War Transport (Mr. Barnes) told the House of Commons he considered it unnecessary to…
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The involved position of ownership and the fact that some beneficiaries of an estate resided outside Australia had prevented demolition of some…
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