Cessnock Scrub Fire
Fire spread over a fairly large area of scrub land in Jeffrey-st., South Cessnock, last night…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
740 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 37
Fire Almost Wipes Out Town
TOKYO, April 25. A.A.P.—A fire last night destroyed almost the whole town of Atsumi, a hot spring resort in the Yamagata prefecture,…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.)—A new light automatic rifle, to be used by British troops in future, has more than twice…
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Brigades attended six grass fires in Newcastle district yesterday. Two were in the Waratah area, and the others at Belmont, Hamilton,…
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GOULBURN. — Flames, fed by thousands of gallons of oil in railway tankers, caused at least £30,000 damage in South…
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LITHGOW, Friday.—Although local fire officials reported a fire at the Newcom colliery. Kerosene Vale, last night, which caused…
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A motor car owned by Kenneth Murray, of Murray's Estate Agency, Bolton-street, City, was damaged by fire yesterday morning in a…
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SYDNEY: A valuable brick - making plant and an auxiliary diesel plant were destroyed by a…
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GOULBURN, Friday. — Jan Janauskas, 31, a migrant, ran through blazing oil to turn off an oil escape valve that was feeding…
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SYDNEY: The A.J.C. stewards today resumed their inquiry into a newspaper article on April 1 concerning the…
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COLUMBUS (Ohio), Sun. (A.A.P.)—Twenty-five racehorses perished in a spectacular fire which destroyed…
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Fire Brigade headquarters put out a fire in Stace's upholstery factory, Robert-street, Wickham, yesterday by the use of one hydrant…
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GENEVA, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Stage technicians in the Gran Theatre yesterday rehearsed the magic fire…
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SYDNEY: Fire, spread by an explosion, gutted the production end of a recently - completed…
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SYDNEY.—With fireworks exploding in all directions, two men, members of a bush fire-fighting brigade, made vain…
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Maitland Fire Brigade put out a fire at a bowser in Bulwer-street, Maitland, yesterday afternoon. The bowser was damaged extensively…
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WELLINGTON, May 6. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Working under hazardous conditions, coalminers of Westport to-day brought under control a…
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LONDON, May 6, A.A.P.— The Australian open golf champion, N. von Nida, never greatly popular with British golf galleries, was…
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Members of Hamilton Fire Brigade put out a grass fire on the west side of Pacific Highway, between Adamstown and Charlestown…
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A weatherboard cottage, owned and occupied by Samuel Tomlinson, at Bellbird-street, Pelaw Main, was destroyed by fire late yesterday…
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