Bulolo Takes Heavy List During Fire
The Burns Philp liner Balolo developed a heavy list yesterday as firemen poured water into her in an effort to check…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Armed Woman Fires Shot At Housewife
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Police believe that a woman who shot at a doctor's wife in Toorak early to-day is the same woman who…
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Carrington brigade attended a grass fire off Wilson-street, Carrington, yesterday afternoon. There was no damage…
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The rear section of a weatherboard cottage and contents in Stewart-avenue, Hamilton, were severely damaged by fire yesterday morning. The premises were occupied by Mr. Ronald Palmer, who is seen checking the damage…
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SYDNEY: Police believe that a cottage in Cross-st, Brookvale, in which six New Australians were sleeping, was deliberately set on fire last night. They found that one wall of…
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DETROIT, Sept. 5. A.A.P.—Firemen blamed children who did not want to go back to school from summer holidays for fires in two…
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LONDON, Fri. (AAP): Huge tanks, holding more than 150,000 , tons of oil, were blazing…
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LONDON, Sept 7. A.A.P.—Two men are missing and 14 million gallons of oil have been destroyed in Britain's biggest peacetime oil blaze…
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LONDON, Sat. (AAP).—Britain's biggest peacetime oil blaze, in the Avonmouth area of…
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LAWSON.—Watched by 200 townspeople, volunteer firemen rescued two women and four children from a blazing…
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LONDON, Sept. 9. A.A.P.—Britain's biggest peacetime oil fire was put out early yesterday after 500 firemen had fought it for 38 hours…
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TOKYO, Sept. 10. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The Allies to-day rejected a new Communist charge that a United Nations plane machine-gunned Kaesong this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lake Rubbish Dump Fires To Check Rats
Rubbish in dumps that would make a breeding ground for rats at Speers Point or the area about Seventh-street, Boolaroo, will be…
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11. A.A.P.—The actor Clifton Young, 34, child villain in "Our Gang" comedies, died in a hotel room fire…
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Fires could be expected in Port Stephens Shire in the next few months, the Shire Engineer (Mr. Cook) said at the council meeting…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A bushfire [?]d Mittagong to-day interrupted interstate telephone communication…
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SYDNEY.—The menace of disastrous bushfires is already acute and firefighters today urged picnickers and motorists…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A woman was burnt to death in a bushfire at Belgrave to-day. The woman, Miss Scurry, had…
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SYDNEY. — Vital defence equipment and work required for the Woomera Rocket Range were damaged when a £30,000…
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A house in Main-street, Argenton, was badly damaged by fire early yesterday morning. The owner-occupier of the house…
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