Intruders Fire Shot At Storeman
WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—Two armed and masked men fired a shot at a storeman when they attempted to hold up the Australian…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
542 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 28
Police Say Man Lit Fires, Helped Put Them Out
GOSFORD, Thursday.—In statements produced at Gosford Coroner's Court, a 21-year-old member of a Gosford Volunteer Fire…
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ANVIL Creek mine closed down many years ago because, of fire, has again become active. Smoke, belching from one…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Clive Turner, 19, Francis-street, Lidcombe, an apprentice, awoke in a cold sweat at 2.30 this morning after…
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Dudley Red Cross Home could have stepped out of Hollywood. It sits in a movie-set acre of crisp green lawns and coral trees, looking down on a sleepy lagoon, and inside it has a mood of highly-polished cosiness…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Directions may be given prohibiting the lighting of any class of fire in the open under a draft Bush Fires Bill…
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LONDON, July 26. A.A.P.—A sparrow, carrying a lighted cigarette-end to its nest, is believed to have started a fire which…
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SYDNEY.—A fire broke out at 1 p.m. today in a large shed at the linseed oil mill of Harold Meggitt Ltd. at Gladesville…
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A hose box, housing 200 feet of hose and other fire-fighting equipment, will be placed on the verandah of Fassifern Post-office…
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A man weighing 9st. dragged to safety a 12st. man whose leg had been broken in an explosion which set alight the sculpture room…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A maintenance officer who ran with a fire extinguisher into a burning building this morning when a fire…
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TOKIO, Thurs. (O.S.R.): Japanese police were forbidden by urgent Government order this week to fire pistols over the heads of fleeing suspects. There has been growing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Threw Kerosene On Fire At Homes; Two In Hospital
Valda Jenkins, 19, of Wollombi-road, Cessnock, received first-degree burns to the face and neck yesterday. She threw a quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Night Watchman Fires Shot
The Wallsend nightwatchman (Mr. W. Scott) fired a shot over the head of a man early yesterday morning…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire in office premises at Paddington to-night, believed to have been started by thieves when they found no…
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SYDNEY: Proclamation of bushfire danger period is provided in a proposed Bushfires Bill approved by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Berlin Home Fires to Get More Coal
BERLIN, July 31. A.A.P.—The Western Powers authorised Western Berlin City Government to issue for domestic heating eight times as…
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LONDON, July 31. A.A.P.-Reuter.—H.M.S. Amethyst reached the mouth of the Yangtse River early this morning after a 140-mile dash in pitch darkness, under Chinese Communist…
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BATAVIA, August 1. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Order to the Dutch and Republican forces to cease fire are to be issued by the respective…
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SYDNEY. — A taxi which burst into flames at a service station at Killara today was driven through heavy traffic on…
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