Fled When Fire Threatened Homes
SYDNEY.—Forest Lodge residents last night fled from homes, carrying furniture and personal belongings, when fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Fire Warning to Graziers
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Graziers up to 70 miles along the danger path of the Clermont district bushfire were warned to-day to burn…
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MELBOURNE.—More than 300 male patients were rescued from Beechworth Asylum today, minutes before a fire…
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MELBOURNE Friday.—The 400 male patients in Beechworth Mental Asylum were rescued early to-day when fire caused £500,000 damage to the building…
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19. A.A.P.— Serious forest fires were burning yesterday in the States of Oregon, Washington and the Canadian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EDITORIAL Newcastle To Blaze An Anti-T.B. Trail
THERE should be no doubt whatever about the kind of response Newcastle will make to the plea for cooperation in the new drive against T.B. If any campaign in the interests of advancing public…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Damage estimated at £2000 was caused by fires early to-day in Highbury-street Methodist Church, Prospect,…
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SEATTLE, Aug. 20. A.A.P.—Serious forest fires were burning at the week-end in the States of Oregon and Washington, and the…
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PORTLAND (Oregon), Tues. (A.A.P.)—More than 500 forest fires are burning out of control along the western American…
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TOTTENHAM: Three children were burned to death last night when a fire gutted a shearer's hut on a sheep station at Albert, 14 miles from Tottenham…
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A grass fire off Darling-street, Hamilton South, yesterday morning damaged about 15 panels of fencing in the Newcastle Jockey…
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NEW YORK, August 22. A.A.P.—More than 500 forest fires were burning out of control yesterday along the western American coast…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A migrant went berserk in his hut at Chullora railway camp to-day, stabbing himself in the chest and setting fire…
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Two fire engines from Cook's Hill Brigade were called out early this afternoon to fight a fire which broke out in the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Firemen to, night found the body of Mist Harriet Gillmer, aged about 79, in the charred ruins of her…
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A fire believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion in a dyeing machine at Bradford Cotton Mills at Rutherford…
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HONGKONG, Aug. 27. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Armed Communist junks fired on a small British registered freighter, Jade Leaf, recently, in…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Five men jumped 16 feet to a shop awning this morning to escape a fire which trapped them on the second floor…
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SYDNEY: Fire swept through a hold in the Burns Philp and Co. Ltd. ship Bulolo at Walsh Bay today and damaged copra valued at £10,000…
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LISMORE, Tuesday—Fire destroyed the Bentley Sawmilling Company's mill 10 miles from Casino to-day. The loss is…
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