Burnt by Tar Fire
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — John Albert Simons, 34, deckhand, of Paddington, was burnt on both arms and hands the afternoon when…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
542 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 28
£250,000 Damage in Cowra Fire
COWRA, Wednesday.—Damage estimated at £250,000 was caused this afternoon when fire almost completely destroyed one of the biggest country stores in New South Wales, at Cowra…
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GENEVA, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—Twelve Swiss children, a 20-year-old nurse, and a 25-year-old English woman, were burned to death…
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KARACHI, Fri. (A.A.P.). — Eight store-houses containing cotton bales and cotton seeds were destroyed yesterday in one…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Four delivery trucks were destroyed and three badly damaged it a fire at the rear of G. H. Crooks' butcher…
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Three elderly women and a boy lost in rough country in Spring-wood district were found this morning…
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LONDON, Sat. (A.A.P.): The Press department of the Soviet Embassy said that some British newspapers carried distorted reports of the fire at the Soviet consular offices in which a child was fatally burned…
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AUCKLAND, Jan. 16. A.A.P.-Reuter. — Damage estimated at £100,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a large wooden…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Fifty thousand pounds' worth of damage was caused by a fire which blazed all last night in Noske's flour mill…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A fire which practically destroyed the factory of William Fimmel and Company, of Young-street, Annandale,…
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The amount allocated for payment of salaries to officers and firemen of Newcastle Fire Brigades in the estimates of expenditure for 1949 was sufficient only to provide wages at existing award rates for less than…
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To provide for the liquidation of the accumulated deficit at December 31, 1948, and prepare its estimates so as not to exceed the statutory levy by Greater Newcastle Council of ¼d in the £, the Board…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—The veteran Coastguard cutter East Wind was swept by fire and abandoned by its crew of 100 after a…
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WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P.): The Chinese Government is reported to have notified the United States Government that it is moving from Nanking to Canton on Friday…
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WELLINGTON, Jan. 19. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Damage estimated several thousand pounds was caused by a fire to-night in the main store of…
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NANKING, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—China's Executive Yuan has decided to issue a ceasefire order to the Nationalist armies and to send a delegation to negotiate peace with…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Five engines turned out to a fire in a hold of the Inchmark, at No. 1 wharf, Glebe Point, to-night…
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NANKING, Sat. (A.A.P.): An emergency meeting of the Chinese Cabinet is discussing how to obtain a cease fire order from the Communist army. The meeting followed the de-…
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ORANGE.—Fire gutted the post office store at Lucknow, near Orange, early today, and threatened to spread to the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — A change of wind saved the town of Nimmitabel from destruction by fire this morning…
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