Engineroom Fire
A fire broke out in the engine-room of the partially-constructed freighter Dongara at the State Dockyard yesterday afternoon…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Communists Fire On U.K. Tug
HONGKONG, Dec. 10. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The Australian captain and two of the Chinese crew were wounded when two shells from…
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SYDNEY.—Shoppers scattered this morning when a truck carrying petrol drams caught alight in the Broadway…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The whole of New South Wales, except for the coastal area from Nambucca Shire to the Queensland border has…
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SYDNEY: Bushfires are raging along a 110 miles front on the N.S.W.-South Australia border and huge losses of stock…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—In an 80-mile-an-hour chase early to-day, police fired at three men in an allegedly stolen car and wounded…
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BROKEN HILL, Wednesday.— Thirty Army men and several jeeps equipped with radio and firefighting equipment and an R.A.A.F…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods, Fires And Flies Menace West
SYDNEY: Fires, floods and flies are menacing pastures, property and stock in various parts of New South Wales and causing a serious setback to production…
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LONDON.—A blaze in a workshop full of wool and cotton waste at Sunderland blind institute was put out by…
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NEW YORK, Dec. 13. A.A.P.—Preliminary diplomatic efforts to arrange a cease-fire in Korea had made little or no progress, said James Reston, diplomatic correspondent of the "New…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.) : Russia today rejected an Asian-Arab plan for a cease-fire in Korea on the ground that the U.S. and Britain would use the truce…
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SCENE AT NEW LAMBTON last night when a bushfire approached to within 300 yards of Rankin Park Hospital. It was not until the early hours of this morning that the blaze was brought under control…
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LAUNCESTON.—A fire last night pitted Ludbrooks Pty. Ltd. (a four-story departmental store) and partially destroyed…
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14. A.A.P.—The United Nations Political Committee yesterday approved the appointment of a three-member commission to try to arrange a cease-fire in Korea…
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NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.): The United Nations' General Assembly today voted by 52 to five for a cease-fire in Korea. The Soviet's bloc cast the only…
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Mr. N. Lane, part-owner of Kirkdale coalmine, in the Wallsend-New Lambton area, fights a bushfire within a few…
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A fire destroyed a weatherboard house at Lambton last night and a grass fire approached within 300 yards of Rankin Park Hospital. Brigades in nearly all suburbs fought…
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BROKEN HILL: With bushfires still sweeping across the N.S.W. border at several points on a 100-mile front, graziers and volunteer firemen are battling today to check fierce outbreaks on two large properties…
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COONAMBLE, Friday.—Three children who perished in a fire yesterday were buried in a single grave in Coonamble cemetery…
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Newcastle district brigades were called out to fight seven fires today. They included six areas of…
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