Brigades Put Out Small Fires
Brigades attended two small fires in Newcastle district yesterday. They were put out before much damage was done…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Heavy Loss in Sydney Fires
SYDNEY, Monday.—Nearly 5000 women's fashion shoes were destroyed in a £10,000 fire at Kent Shoes Pty. Ltd. factory at…
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A house occupied by Mrs. C. Lawson, in George-street, East Maitland, was slightly damaged by fire yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire to-day destroyed 4000 acres of grassland 32 miles from Moree. Thirty men answered a radio…
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Mr. Richard Barry and his family, who had taken up residence in the old Newcastle East fire station in Scott-street, had given only £1 to…
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HONGKONG, Jan. 11. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Thousands of poor Chinese have lost their homes in a fire which is sweeping through a hut…
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Three brigades were called out this morning to extinguish two small fires. Cardiff and Teralba brigades…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two big stacks of wood pulp were destroyed by fire at Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd., Matraville, this…
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CANBERRA.—Two 50 h.p. electric motors for the Snowy River construction scheme were destroyed by fire to-day on a…
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GRAFTON, Thursday.—Imprints, believed to be the footprints of a man, were found in the ashes of a fire in rugged country near…
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Cardiff and Teralba Fire Brigades quickly checked a grass fire at Speers Point yesterday. Waratah firemen put out a small…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Attention was distracted from the tennis when a fire broke out to-day at White City before the final match of the…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A child suffered fatal burns when a house was destroyed by fire at Willaura to-day…
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DAVENPORT (Iowa), Jan. 13. A.A.P.—A young woman patient was reported yesterday to have confessed to having started a fire in…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Valuable electrical equipment, being transported to the Snowy River hydro-electric power project at Jindabyne,…
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SAN JUAN (Puerto Rico), Jan. 15. A.A.P.—About 1500 people were made homeless by a fire that destroyed 300 houses in the town…
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About 20 tons of lucerne hay and part of a hay shed, on a farm at Miller's Forest, were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The hay…
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BROKEN HILL, Sunday.—More than 70,000 acres of grassland was destroyed by a fire which raged to-day on a 25-mile front 25 miles…
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GRAFTON, Sunday.—Damage estimated at £1000 was caused by a fierce blaze at J. P. Niland's bus depot, off Pount-street, Grafton,…
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AUCKLAND, Jan. 15. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Fire destroyed a National Airways aircraft on Rotorua Aerodrome yesterday…
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