The Junior Herald Science Note Fire-Proof Fibre
INDUSTRY is continually finding new uses for asbestos, yet the average person would probably find it hard…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
674 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 34
Experts Plan To Stop Bushfires
SYDNEY: Chemical bombs may be used in the fight against bushfires, which experts warned today might again be disastrous during the coming summer months…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday. — A fire which destroyed the bag store at the Portland Cement Company's works early this…
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FAIRBANKS (Alaska), July 15. A.A.P.—Flames which raced through this city's second largest hotel yesterday left…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£2000 Damage In Army Depot Fire
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A towing vehicle and hundreds of second-hand car tyres were destroyed in a fire at an Army…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop Press Fire in Sydney
SYDNEY: A fire, raging: in Soandrett Browne and Companies George Street North building spread to a building next door at 2 p.m. today…
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Two truck tyres, valued at £130 each, valuable tools, and a clock were damaged by fire last night in the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. —More than £200,000 in merchandise was destroyed when fire engulfed two big buildings in Sydney to-day…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Director-General of Recruiting (Lieut-General Sir Horace Robertson) at a noisy Trades Hall meeting To-night, repeated that young…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police who went to investigate a fire in a Croydon service station to-night found that an…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Firemen fought an oil fire for an hour at Enfield railway marshalling yards before bringing…
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KATOOMBA: The contents of a window display of a drapery store in Katoomba St. were…
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A six-roomed cottage at The Esplanade, Speers Point, and contents valued at about £3000 were…
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Maitland Chamber of Commerce and Business Men's Club last night jointly sought the abolition of Northumberland County Council…
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Lake Macquarie Shire Council will ask the Governor to declare certain sections of the shire a bushfire district, in an effort to improve the council's firefighting…
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A six-roomed cottage and its contents in the Esplanade, Speers Point, were destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The…
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This month four ships have been gutted or seriously damaged, seven lives have been lost and more than £3 million damage caused. It has been one of the…
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Top: Ken Rowe found the mounting water in King-street, Newcastle, ideal for a game with his scooter…
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SYDNEY: His kerosene-soaked clothing ablaze and his room on fire, George Albert Dennis (47) of…
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A fire alarm near the shopping centre in the East Wallsend Housing Commission area was not warranted at present,…
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