Night Fires Destroy 3 Buildings
Fires at night destroyed buildings at Bellbird, Gosford and Goulburn. The Church of England Parish Hall at Bellbird was razed shortly…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Fire Destroys Bellbird Hall
The Church of England Parish Hall at Bellbird was destroyed by fire early this morning…
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Norman Ridley, 14, of Arnott-street, Young Wallsend, threw what he thought was an empty bullet packet on the fire at his parents'…
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MELBOURNE. — A bushfire, which burned for six hours on the slope of Mt. Dandenong yesterday, destroyed two week-end…
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MELBOURNE: Firemen and volunteers fought an all-night battle against bushfires stretching in a broken line across the State from eastern Victoria almost to the South Australian…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A westerly change this afternoon saved Victoria from a severe bushfire threat. Fire officers late to-night…
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The Lower Hunter Shire Council decided today to give its first preference vote for the Board of Fire Commissioners to…
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BERLIN, Thurs. (A.A.P.).— East German police yesterday fired several shots at five U.S. Army buses, loaded with…
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TRENTON (New Jersey), March 28. A.A.P.—Sixteen trotting horses were burnt to death yesterday when a fire broke out in a stable at the…
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LONDON, March 29. A.A.P.—A man threw petrol over his wife after a family row and then set her alight with a candle, police alleged…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The bush- fire danger period had been extended from the end of March till April 15 because of the fire…
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SYDNEY. — Former country performer, Fire Ship (7/2) outstayed Aristocrat and Golden Rust to win the Dangar…
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A 34-year-old greaser at Cook's Hill truck depot was verely burned this after[?] when some petrol caught…
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Men are working double shifts and around the clock in an effort to save hundreds of thousands of tons of gas coal at Cessnock No. 2 open cut, which is on fire…
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The manager of Cessnock No. 2 open-cut mine (Mr. Wilson Barrett) denied today that burning coal in the open cut was a danger to thousands of tons of unworked coal adjoining the cut…
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Peter Allan, 34, greaser, of King-street, Newcastle was burnt extensively on his arms and body when his overalls caught fire on Saturday…
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The fight against the Cessnock No. 2 open-cut mine is continuing. The seat of the fire is in an old…
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BRISBANE.—A £400 trousseau was destroyed in a fire which gutted a house at Rockhampton today…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A Cricket ball exploded a box of matches in a batsman's pocket in the final…
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GOULBURN, Monday.—A three-year-old boy set fire to curtains and caused a blaze in which his baby brother lost his life,…
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