New Moves For Fire Escape
When Hamilton School headmaster (Mr. P. J. Cunningham) told the P. and C. last night that six new fire extinguishers…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
740 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 37
Council Complaint On Pit Fire Fumes
Kearsley Shire Council will advise the Minister for Mines that neither the people of Bellbird nor the council are satisfied with the department's attitude to complaints of fire stink fumes in the Bellbird area…
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RIO DE JANIERO, June 7. A.A.P.—At least 100 people are believed to have been burnt to death in a…
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Thurs. (A.A.P. ): Jammed automatic doors prevented many escapes when a workers' electric train struck a petrol waggon to-day causing the deaths of 51 passengers and injury…
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AUTHORITATIVE voices were added this week to the chorus of criticism on the handling of ships in Australian ports. Yesterday the P. and O. chairman described the slow…
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SYDNEY.—Trapped in a flaming, bedroom by a fierce fire downstairs, a man, his wife and baby daughter fled down…
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KATOOMBA, Wednesday.—A man ran through a burning building this morning to call the fire brigade to the fire…
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Maitland Club has protested to Newcastle League against continually having the same referee allocated to games in which its team is engaged…
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MONTREAL (Canada), Fri. (A.A.P.).—Thirty-two bodies, including those of two nuns, have so far been recovered from the charred ruins of a five-storeyed hospice for aged and orphans which was…
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GRAFTON, Friday.—Police alleged to-day that a 10-year-old Grafton boy had admitted responsibility for the fire which gutted…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Fire caused more than £15,000 damage to the brass foundry of Donson Products Pty. Ltd., Newinston-road,…
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MONTREAL, June 17. A.A.P.—The death roll as a result of the fire in the five-storied St. Cunegonde hospice on Friday has been placed at 36. Thirty bodies cannot be…
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MONTREAL, June 18. A.A.P. —Firemen yesterday found the bodies of three more persons in the ruins of St. Cunegonde Hospice…
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SINGAPORE, June 18. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Fire broke out this morning in the French Liberty ship St. Valerie en. Caux. lying in…
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NEW YORK, June 24. A.A.P.—Talks for a cease-fire in Korea have been proposed by the chief Soviet delegate to U.N.O. His suggestion aroused scepticism in the U.S. State Department, which said the U.S. would play her part if the suggestion…
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DARWIN, Monday.—A huge grass fire sweeping through the Barkly Tableland towards the Queensland border has already…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.— The United States was fighting for Korean mineral resources and not to save the world from…
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The Treasurer (Mr. A. Gow) told I ambton Fire Victims' Appeal Commitee that the home for the Evans family in Fitzroy-street, Lambton,…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.): A source close to the Russian United Nations delegation said today the simplest procedure for a cease-fire in Korea would be for the commanders in the field to arrange…
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Firemen from Cook's Hill and Carrington brigades this morning had to shovel tons of coal to get at a fire which broke…
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