Fires Raging In South-West Grass Lands
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Stationowners to-night appealed for volunteers to help fight bushfires raging in the Charleville and Wyandra…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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4 Lake Centres Get Fire Equipment
Fire fighting equipment was placed at Wangi, Rathmines, Arcadiavale and Balmoral yesterday. The equipment includes 600 feet…
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Newcastle Council last night elected Ald. H. D. Quinlan to contest the election to fill a vacancy on the N.S.W. Board…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Bushfires now have destroyed nearly 70,000 acres of crass land in the Charleville and Wyandra districts…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday.—Arson Squad detectives reached Lithgow to-night to investigate fire in the office of Newcom colliery,…
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About £1500 damage was caused by a fire in the furnace house at Henry Lane Pty. Ltd., Clyde-street, Hamilton North, yesterday…
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Newcastle Fire Brigade stood by for several hours today after extinguishing a blaze in a rubbish dump at the corner of…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 17. A.A.P.—An uncontrollable fire, swept by a 40-mile-an-hour wind, yesterday destroyed a five million dollar…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.N. Cease-Fire Proposal Rejected By Chinese
LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—The Chinese Communists have rejected United Nations' proposals for a ceasefire in Korea and have put up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Blaze AT Rubber Dump
LONDON: Reinforcements from the Middlesex Fire Service were sent to the big rubber dump…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Electric Substation
A fire occurred at a two-pole power substation at Booragul yesterday. It was put out by the Teralba fire brigade With a single…
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BRISBANE. Sunday.—Forty men are fighting a six-mile wide fire 80 miles east of Wyandra, in south-west Queensland…
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The Lambton fire victims' appeal raised £32 at a social evening arranged by Mrs. Kilpatrick in the East Lambton Progress Hall on…
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NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): Communist China is reported to be ready to "bargain" on some points in the U.N. attempt to find a peaceful…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A bushfire which had burnt out 300,000 acres of grazing land near Wyandra. 544 miles west of Brisbane,…
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Lambton Fire Victims' Appeal Committee on Feb. 3 will commence the rebuilding of the home of Mr. W. Evans,…
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Hamilton and Newcastle fire brigades were called out at 3 o'clock this morning to extinguish a small sawdust fire…
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Lambton Fire Victims Committee decided last night to start building a new home for the Evans family on February 3. The work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rain Puts Out Grassland Fires In Queensland
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Thousands of acres of valuable grazing land have been saved by rain, which put out fires near Wyandra,…
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LONDON: Two men working with petrol in a garage at Hull paused to light a cigarette. There was a burst of flame,…
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