Woman Killed; Bus And Fire Engine Collide
ADELAIDE, Sunday.—A woman was killed and 25 were injured when a bus and a fire engine collided at a city street intersection…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
542 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 28
Police Fire On Africans
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 14. A.A.P.—Police shot dead one African and wounded four when they fired on a large group of…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Two mechanics were enveloped in flames when the engine of a truck, on which they were working, caught…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Damage estimated at £2000 was caused by a fire in a storeroom at the rear of a building used a…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — A two-storied brick building occupied by the General Tyre and Rubber Company, in Latrobe-street, city,…
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SINGAPORE, Thursday (A.A.P.).—A Chinese member, Lim Yew Hock, suggested to Singapore Legislative…
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Newcastle Trades Hall Council decided last night, on the motion of Mr. J. Shakespeare (Bus Employees Union), to protest to the…
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A fire menace existed in various Newcastle suburbs because of inadequacy of water supply, said Mr. J. Cramp ton at a meeting last night of Newcastle Trades Hall Council. An official of the Hunter…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Police and firemen late to-night recovered the body of Edward, John Mulheron, 7 of Fraser-avenue, Pagewood…
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TOKYO, Feb. 20. A.A.P.—Fires which burned uncontrolled for eight hours destroyed 2500 homes in Noshiro to-day. Ten…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Oliver Twist' Under Fire In Berlin
BERLIN, Feb. 20. A.A.P.—The British film "Oliver Twist" has come under fire from the American-licensed newspaper "Tagesspiegel"…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.— Firemen from eight brigades donned gas-masks to fight a fire in the basement of the State Government's…
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AUCKLAND, Feb. 20. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Two women died in a fire which destroyed a large boarding house at Remuera, a suburb of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A bus valued at £2500 was destroyed by fire at Bonnyrigg, near Liverpool, to-night…
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BERLIN, Feb. 24. A.A.P.— Russian soldiers fired on a Western German police car which strayed into the Soviet sector of Berlin last…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire under a carriage on the Sydney-bound Newcastle Flyer, near Strathfield Station about 3.30 this afternoon,…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Forty cars were damaged, many seriously, when a fire broke out in the body repair division of Charles Hope…
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Hugh Wallace (27) of Elizabeth St., Holmesville, working on railway construction work at Cockle Creek, was badly…
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PERTH, Sunday.—A young woman and three children were burnt to death at South Guildford yesterday…
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Pupils in class rooms on the top floors of the Hamilton School might be trapped in the event of fire,…
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