At City Camp Fire
Scouts group around a big camp fire concert on vacant land in Hunter-street, City, last night, as part of Scout Week demonstrations…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
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£446,428 Blaze In Refinery
CORPUS CHRISTI (Texas), May 18. A.A.P.—Hundreds of firemen fought for 17 hours before they were able to put…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Husband Set Fire to House, Is Allegation
A man charged by police with having maliciously set alight to a house at West Wallsend in which big wife was living with another man, was alleged to have told her about five…
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SYDNEY: Bushfires which devastated N.S.W. from October 1951 to March 1952. caused at least £6,500,000 damage, the Bushfire Committee has reported to the State…
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SYDNEY: Liquid Fire, winner of his last three races and one of the fancies for the Flying Handicap at Randwick next Saturday, showed that he held his, form by running a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →£100,000 Fire in Melbourne
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Damage estimated at more than £100,000 was caused by a fire which burnt out the top two floors of Bradford House, Flinders-lane, City, this…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Bushfire caused at least £6,500,000 damage in New South Wales between October, 1951 and March, 1952, the State Bushfire Committee reported to the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Liquid Fire indicated that he is ready for next Saturday's Flying Handicap at Randwick by his half-mile sprint at Victoria Park this morning…
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Fire severely damaged one lorry and slightly damaged another in Wood-street, Adamstown, last night. The vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Evatt Under Fire On Burton Issue
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Inaugurating the lively debate in the House of Representatives on Dr. Burton's visit to Peking to take part in a Pacific "peace" conference, Mr. Gullett (Lib., V.) said Dr. Burton was going unendorsed and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfire Brigade Is Planned For Lochinvar
Kearsley Shire Council will support a move by local residents for the establishment of a bushfire brigade at Lochinvar. The Engineer (Mr. L. Grattan) reported to the…
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Highfields District Progress Association will ask the Board of Fire Commissioners to install a fire alarm at…
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SYDNEY.—Three new ideas in bushfire suppression have been proposed in a Bushfire Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Hoses Quell Gaol Riot
ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Police reinforcements and fire hoses shooting water from the gaol towers helped to quell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Liquid Fire's Price Eases For Flying
SYDNEY, Friday.—The engagement of N. Sellwood for Freyberg has caused Liquid Fire to ease in the betting on the Flying Handicap at Randwick to-morrow. Freyberg fought on well…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A man lost his life savings to-day when he accidentally throw kerosene on a fire in his small…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—There is nothing wrong with the sprinter Liquid Fire, who failed in the Flying Handicap at Randwick yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Convicts Fire Idaho Prison
BOISE (Idaho), May 25. A.A.P.—More than 250 prisoners brandished knives and axes and set fire to two prison buildings yesterday in a five-hour riot at…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fire crackers dropped in the letterbox at a small post-office store at Westmead to-day are…
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LONDON.—Single-handed, Mrs. Ada Steele-Hickman, 95, fought a fire in her bed sitting-room at…
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