Arson Squad Probes Paper Basket Fires
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The C.I.B. arson squad to-night began investigating a series of fires in the Transport Department building…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
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"No Evidence Of Fire Short Circuit"
There was no evidence that the fire at the Waratah Deaf and Dumb Institute was caused by a short circuit, said the Electrical Engineer…
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LONDON, July 23. A.A.P.—Gainsborough Films' London office announced that the company had received news that the vessel Santa…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Firemen had to run 440 yards of hose from the shore to a fire in the engine-room of the trawler Alfie Cam, in…
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A scrub fire at the rear of the Shell oil depot in Chatham-road, Broadmeadow, yesterday afternoon was put out by Cook's Hill and…
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Members of Catherine Hill Bay Progress Association said that several fires had been started by hot ashes from the coal locomotives…
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SYDNEY: A spectacular fire at Harbord today gutted the Alpine Drycleaning Works, causing…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. —A large number of guests lost all their belongings when the Bayview guesthouse at Cowes burned to the…
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HARDEN, Monday.—The driver of the South-West Express, which was derailed at Rocky Ponds on June 30, said in Harden Court…
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A man was fatally burnt and six others are in hospital with dangerous burns following a collision between a bus and a tram at Woolloongabba at 5.10 p.m. yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—State Cabinet to-day approved the Bush Fire and Control Bill. The Chief Secretary (Mr…
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PARIS, July 27. A.A.P.—The driver and all four passengers—a man, a woman and two children—were killed when a gas-driven…
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SYDNEY.—A fire early this morning gutted the Royaltex Shirt and Pyjama factory in the top floor of flve-storied…
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A weatherboard cottage in Douglas-st., Stockton, was almost completely destroyed by a fire which…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A tin of "canned heat" was used to set alight a stack of cypress pine at the rear of a house in Lord-street,…
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When a weatherboard cottage in Douglas-street, Stockton, was burnt down yesterday, houses on either side were endangered…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— Damage estimated at £6000 was caused when fire destroyed a clothing factory on the top floor of a five-story…
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Articles valued at between £500 and £600 were destroyed when a cottage in Douglas-street, Stockton, was burnt down shortly before…
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The Manager of the Newcastle Gas Company (Mr. A. Spence) denied last night that a fire in a Stockton cottage on Friday could…
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District fire brigades were called to four grass and rubbish fires yesterday. All were put out before damage was done…
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