Police Investigating Rocket Range Fire
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.— Police at Woomera rocket range have been joined by a detective-sergeant from Whyalla in investigating a fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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Fire Destroys Coal Board Office
LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Fire destroyed the office of the Joint Coal Board at the Government-owned Ben Bullen open-cut mine, 21 miles…
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Plans had been prepared for a permanent officer at Carrington fire station, when finances permitted, the Board of Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.z. Fire Claims Total £50,000
CHRISTCHURCH, July 7. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Settlement claims to date for death and injury in Ballantyne's fire on November 18, 1947, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plans For Fire Service With Radio "Brain"
LONDON, (O.S.R.): Plans have been made to equip Middlesex fire service with radio telephony,…
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BRISBANE, Friday. — A Gympie-bound goods train caught fire late to-night at North Arm goods yard, 73 miles north of Brisbane…
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ISTANBUL, July 10. A.A.P.—More than 100 Turkish passengers were burned to death in a fire in the steamer Corum (5000 tons). Several others were asphyxiated. Thirty passengers were seriously…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.— A fire which was started among papers in the front doorway of the Communist Party's William-street branch…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Crowds of shoppers left Palmers' Pitt-street store to-day when smoke, carried by ventilators from a fire on the…
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SYDNEY: A fire gutted the fourth floor of Derwent House in Castlereagh St. at 7.30 a.m. today, destroying the offices of…
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AUCKLAND, July 12. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Three thousand carcases of frozen mutton loaded for export to Britain were destroyed this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Baby Burnt in Blanket Fire
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Dianne Munro, 12 months, of Blacktown, was seriously burnt when the blanket in which she was wrapped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Widow's Furniture Lost in Fire
A war widow's furniture and household effects, stored overnight on a truck in a garage while being moved to her new home, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£30,000 Fire Destroys Chemical Plant
SYDNEY: Repeated explosions hurled flaming: timber into the air in a spectacular blaze in a £30.000 chemical…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£7000 Fire at Lismore
LISMORE, Friday.—Damage estimated at £7000 was caused when fire destroyed a building and contents owned by W. Blair Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Want Fire Escape At Hamilton School
Hamilton School P. and C. Association has been trying for more than three years to have a fire escape provided for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Destroys Laundry at Mental Asylum
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Fire destroyed the laundry at Kew Mental Asylum to-night, causing damage estimated at £100,000…
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SYDNEY: Thousands af pounds' worth of furniture and stock (including cigarettes) were destroyed by a fire at…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (O.S.R.).—A rubber aeroplane fuel tank, coated with a substance recently developed at the request…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Whites Fire Negro Homes As Revenge
NEW YORK, July 19. A.A.P.—Mobs of angry white people roamed the countryside around Groveland (Florida) at…
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