Large Bushfire Under Control
SYDNEY.—A bushfire which broke out on "Boorooma" Station, 28 miles from Brewarrina, yesterday, was brought under…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
542 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 28
£10,000 Blaze in Hobart
HOBART, Monday. — Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused in electrical goods and equipment at premises of the Australian…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—More than 50,000 acres of grassland is reported to have been destroyed in fires which have swept the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Three brigades were called out to a fire that started in the top floor of premises in Market-street early to-night…
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ORANGE, Monday. — Damage estimated at £1500 damage was caused this morning when fire destroyed the post-office and store…
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Lake Macquarie Shire Council decided last night to nominate Cr. E. P. Gain, of Toronto, to contest the election for representatives on…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 26. A.A.P.— The acting Palestine mediator (Dr. Ralph Bunche) has advised the United Nations headquarters that…
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An additional £26,600 had to be found if the Newcastle fire service were to be at its proper strength, said the Secretary of the…
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A hayshed on a dairy farm owned by Mr. H. Clode, of Eagleton, and worked by Mr. Stan Cannon, was destroyed by fire…
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MONTREAL, Jan. 28. A.A.P.—Nine children and one adult were burnt to death to-day when a fire destroyed a two-family house at…
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CANBERRA, Monday. — Blazing pieces of a tarpaulin canopy from a three-ton truck started fires in surrounding bushland to-day…
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TOKYO, Jan. 30. A.A.P.—Five American soldiers were killed, 10 others are missing, and five were seriously, injured in a fire which…
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Weather Bureau officials warned last night that the bushfire threat would be great to-day. A cool change was expected, but…
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NIMMITABEL.—A fire last night destroyed the store of Creamer and Wests. A bucket brigade of 25 men saved an oil…
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HYDERABAD, Jan. 31. A.A.P. —One man was killed and two others seriously injured when police fired on a crowd…
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TOKYO, Jan. 31. A.A.P.—General MacArthur's Headquarters has revised the casualties of the fire yesterday at Air Force barracks at…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The distillery plant of the Ajax Oil Refining Company, at Artarmon was damaged by fire to-night…
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RIPON (Wisconsin), Feb. 1. A.A.P.—Six people are believed to have been burned to death in a fire which destroyed the 75-year-old…
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Among building applications granted by Kearsley Shire Council last night was one from the Board of Fire…
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A garage at the home of Mr. A, R. Lewis, between Belmont-street and Lake-road, Swansea, was destroyed by fire early yesterday…
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