£500 Damage in Rail Truck Fire
Damage estimated at £500 was caused by a fire in a truck of general merchandise at Hamilton railway station, at 6.30 a.m…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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Request For Fire Escape At School
Newcastle District Council of P. and C. Associations last night decided to cooperate with the Hamilton Association to have a fire escape provided for the boys department of Hamilton School…
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Crackers injured seven people, including two boys admitted to hospital, and directly or indirectly caused three fires in the Newcastle district last night. The two boys admitted to…
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Residents of McMichael-street, Maryville, were scared yesterday when this grass fire blazed in the premises of the Vacuum Oil…
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Cook's Hill and Hamilton brigades attended a fire in the lounge room of a flat occupied by Mr. Robert Morgan, Memorial…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— An Australian National Airways' Bristol freighter aircraft caught fire after making an emergency landing…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—Damage to Commonwealth property in Japan by fires started by Frank Loyal Weaver, former soidier,…
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GOSFORD, Thursday. — Gosford was blacked out for more than an hour to-night when a fire, which caused £8000 damage,…
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Little damage was done by a fire in weatherboard beams in No. 4 hold on S.S. Marin de Larrinaga, at the Carrington Sulphide wharf…
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CALCUTTA, May 27. A.A.P.— Fire gutted a large area of Calcutta's timber trade centre, on the bank of the Hoogly River early…
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BRISBANE: Flames which enveloped an entire shopping block at Crow's Nest early this morning silhouetted the…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A woman was burnt to death and her mother, who tried to rescue her, was seriously burnt last night…
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SUVA, May 30. A.A.P.—Reuter. —Fire gutted the main store of the Burns Philp company at Bahia. Insurance on the store was £51.000…
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CAPE TOWN, May 30. A.A.P. —Hundreds of African natives have been left homeless as the result of a fire which swept through…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Damage estimated at £25,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a shopping block at Crow's Nest…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Under industrial law employers had as much right to dismiss employees as workers had to change their jobs,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A five-year-old boy told detectives to-night that he and a seven-year-old boy had begun the fire that gutted…
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LONDON, June 1. A.A.P.— Lightning is believed to have caused a fire which last night destroyed over 500,000 incendiary bombs at…
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LONDON, June 2. A.A.P.—The famous Sadler's 'Wells Ballet Company lost all its costumes, music and orchestral instruments when the Theatre Royal at Hanley (Staffordshire) went up in flames this…
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A tent home, occupied by Mr. W. Reid and his family, was destroyed by fire at Speers Point Park camping area yesterday afternoon…
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