Gelignite Carried From Blaze
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Four firemen risked their lives when they carried a smouldering 112lb case of gelignite from a blazing building…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
740 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 37
Small Fire in Punt
A small fire broke out behind a boiler in the Public Works punt, Como, at Carrington yesterday. A small area of timber was charred,…
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An unoccupied shack in Lewers St., Belmont, was destroyed by fire this morning and at Ingall St. Mayfield, one…
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The key of this new home, built by week end voluntary labour at Lambton, was handed to Mr. W. Evans on Saturday afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A fire to-night severely damaged the Merlin electroplating works in Trafalgarlane. Annnndale,…
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BRISBANE, Monday. — The death of a young married woman by burning, at her home in Dalby, has the police baffled as to the cause…
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Cook's Hill firemen were called yesterday morning to the C.M.L. building, Hunter-street, Newcastle, on a false alarm. A temporary fault…
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TOKYO, July 3. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Liaison officers from General Ridgway's Headquarters may meet enemy officers in Korea on Thursday. They would hold preliminary talks on the proposed armistice…
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CAPCHAT (Quebec), Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Fire today destroyed about 40 buildings in this village, leaving 200 persons…
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Abadan oil refinery, the biggest in the world, is also the world's biggest fire risk…
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OTTAWA, July 6. A.A.P.—A fire at Capchat (Quebec) yesterday destroyed 68 homes and buildings in the village leaving 300 persons…
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NEWARK (New Jersey), July 8. A.A.P.— Flames rose thousands of feet when gas-filled lanks exploded and a fire raged in the Newark port area for more than five hours yesterday…
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DARWIN.—The fire brigade saved Darwin's wharf from destruction today, but firemen working under the wharf had…
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TOKYO, July 8. A.A.P. — Full-scale negotiations for a cease-fire in Korea will begin next Tuesday. Arrangements for the conference were completed at…
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NEW YORK, July 9. A.A.P.— The cause of the £A2,200,000 propane gas fire in the Newark port area on Saturday is still not known…
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TOKYO, July 11, A.A.P.-Reuter, —Crowds, estimated at 30,000, marched through scoul to-day in protest against the Korean cease-fire…
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Catherine Hilt Bay residents presented Mr. and Mrs. H. Boyd, who were the victims of a fire, with £173 at a public meeting…
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NEW YORK, July 12 A.A.P.—A widely known neutral, possibly from Sweden, may be appointed by the…
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TOKYO, July 12. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The Korean cease fire negotiations broke down indefinitely today on the question of freedom of the Press…
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MELBOURNE: Eight children aged between one and 16 were left homeless when fire…
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