Big Fires In Queensland
BRISBANE, Friday.—Fierce bush fires are still burning in Queensland. More Army radio equipment will…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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"Grave" Fire Risk At School
Parents should not allow their children to attend Hamilton Central Public School because fire safeguards were inadequate Mr. J…
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SYDNEY: Mrs. Elizabeth Pember, 78, whose savings, estimated at nearly £20,000, were recovered from the ruins of a burnt-out block of flats last night, told today how she accumulated the board…
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BRISBANE: Bushfires near Charleville have burnt out hundreds of thousands of acres of grazing country and forest areas, police at Charleville said today. Police said the fires, which have been burning for about…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Bushfires in south-west Queensland have destroyed more than half the fodder reserves of station owners in the…
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Fire broke out in Aberdare colliery yesterday. The area affected was Nos. 21 and 30 gannons Seals completed…
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SYDNEY: The City Coroner has told police that he will hold an inquest into a fire which gutted a block of Harbord…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Because of the shortage of steel, the Department of Public Works has been asked to prepare plans and…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Sheep worth £15,000 were burnt to death in a fire which swept through five sheep stations in the Barcaldine…
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A scale model of a naval gun at Newcastle Show has hydraulic recoil and fires 22 calibre short bullets as shells…
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LISMORE: The residents of the little village of Woodenbong (population 450), northwest of Lismore, are living in terror of a maniacal fire bug, who in eight days has started…
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The Lord Mayor (Aid. Purdue) who sponsored the public appeal for funds for the rebuilding of the home of Mr…
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Forty high-tension insulators at Glenrock Lagoon had been damaged by rifle fire, the Distribution Superintendent of the Electric Supply…
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SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Petrol had been poured over an unconscious R.A.F. corporal and set alight by a Moslem in the December riots, a witness told the commission inquiring into…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—One hundred fire-fighters saved the tiny township of Hermidale near Nyngan from destruction to-day…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Twenty stations south-west of Roma were certain to be burnt out, Sergeant C. J. Nugent, of Roma Police,…
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Newcastle Council Health Committee recommended last night that the council ask the trustees of the Church of England to clean the…
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Aldermen of Newcastle Council's Health Committee adhered to statements made concerning the fish markets and would continue to press for amended legislation to enforce inspections of fish by…
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The Chairman of Newcastle Council Health Committee (Ald. Armstrong) and the Chief Health Inspector (Mr. Meddows) will…
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The St. Andrew's Church of England Scout Hall in Church-st., Mayfield, was gutted by…
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