Car On Fire; Triple Crash At Hamilton
A double-decker bus, a car and a motor-cycle were in a triple collison in Denison-street, Hamilton, about midnight Saturday…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 29
Fire Destroys £26,000 Hotel
MACKAY, Monday.—The £26,000 Grand Hotel was destroyed by fire early to-day soon after 20 guests and staff of five fled…
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Boolaroo Fire Brigade will have been in existence 50 years this week. Records do not state the exact date on which the brigade was…
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SYDNEY: A honeymoon couple jumped from the second storey of the blazing Ritz Private Hotel at Yamba (North Coast) when trapped by smoke and flames at 4 a.m. today…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday.—A young Brisbane man, who was on his honeymoon, died from burns to-night after being trapped in a fire…
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The Government Real Estate Office had offered Newcastle City Council the occupancy of the former Adamstown Fire Station at a…
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SYDNEY.—A bride of 17 days, injured in a honeymoon hotel fire, does not yet know that her husband died after the blaze. She is Mrs. Monica Casey, of Brisbane…
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HONGKONG, Oct. 18. A.A.P.-Reuter.-The British freighter, Tornia, which earlier was reported to have been shelled by Nationalist…
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Newcastle branch of the Red Cross Society had waived all claims to the former Newcastle East Fire Station in favour of the…
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MELBOURNE. —Two hundred and thirty pyjama-clad passengers watched firemen fight a…
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MESSINA (Sicily), Tues. (A.A.P.).—The volcano Stromboli, which has been erupting for the past three days, poured…
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A comprehensive bushfire demonstration by men of the Forestry Commission will be given before parliamentarians…
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A young woman had a foot injured yesterday when struck by a verandah post dislodged by a fire hose in Maitland. The woman, Mrs. Merna…
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TOKYO, October 24. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Chinese Communist anti-aircraft guns fired across the Manchurian border on two United States Marine reconnaissance planes yesterday…
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Mrs. May Bethune (45), of Charles St., Blackalls, was severely burned about the arms, hands and body at her home…
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Called by the automatic alarm, Cook's Hill and Hamilton brigades, under District Officer Russo, attended a small fire in the drying…
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LONDON, October 25. A.A.P.—Police had a worrying time last night when a fire destroyed the last remaining building inside the…
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Holbrook Shire Council has asked the State Government to impose a total prohibition on the lighting of fires by road hauliers and campers along the whole length of the Hume Highway during this summer. That's how serious the…
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Aid. Edwards, of Mid-west Ward, yesterday criticised methods adopted at the recent local government conference at Wagga…
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A fire which severely damaged the lounge room of Mr. C. R. Galpin, dentist, of Queen-st., Lorn, late last night is…
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