Wool Worth £11,000 Lost in Fire
TAMWORTH, Thursday.— Wool worth £11.000 was destroyed by fire at Goodrich and Son's Yetman West Station, in the Far North-west…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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£3000 Fire At Varnish Store
SYDNEY, Friday.—Damage estimated at £3000 was caused when the varnish section of the Standard Paint and Oil Company's factory…
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A grass fire yesterday set about 12 panel fences alight at Newcastle racecourse, Hamilton Fire Brigade put out the fire. Damage was only…
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District fire brigades attended six small fires and answered one false alarm during the week-end. Most of the fires were in grass or scrub…
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 10. A.A.P.-Reuter. Terrorists last night fired on a night mail train from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man's Leg Burnt In Car Fire
William Blackman, 23, of Main-road, Cardiff, was severely burnt, on the left leg while trying to put out a fire in a car at Boolaroo last…
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SYDNEY: A mysterious explosion blasted two connected power sub-stations at Hurstville early today. Twenty - five gallon oil "baths" housing seven trans-…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Damage Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a large quantity of oil…
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SYDNEY: About 50 men and women employees fled to safety when fire engulfed a two-storey building in Parramatta Rd.,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Twenty-five women working on the top floor of a two-storied factory in Parramatta-road, Summer Hill, escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parade Ground 2nd Battalion Cadets Will Have "Baptism Of Fire"
Newcastle 2nd Battalion cadet company—which officers believe is, numerically, the strongest in New South Wales—will have its "baptism of fire" at Singleton this week-end. The company, with 85 of a…
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Cook's Hill, Tighe's Hill and Waratah brigades attended a fire in a retort at Newcastle Chemical Company's works in…
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Mr. R. D. Barry—who has been living in the old Newcastle East fire station with his wife and seven children for two years—won a…
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MELBOURNE: Detectives are investigating the mysterious burning of a car outside the home of Solomon Ravdell in Pasley-st., South Yarra, last night Mr. Ravdell, 70, was the victim of a sensational kidnapping…
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Two families lost everything except the clothes they were wearing when a fire destroyed a three-roomed weatherboard cottage in…
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KATOOMBA, Sunday.—More than 100 firefighters battled for more than 2½ hours this afternoon to save 12 homes when a bushfire…
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An appeal for clothing and money to assist Mr. and Mrs. J. Wicken, invalid pensioners, whose home, in Jubilee-road, Wallsend,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A huge fire which began in a stack of baled cotton on a wharf at Glebe Island early to-night— Threatened two big cargo…
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SYDNEY: Firemen to-day patrolled Glebe Island wharf as a precautionary move against fresh…
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MELBOURNE: Men in pyjamas and women in night-dresses, with overcoats hastily drawn across their shoulders,…
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