2 Grass Fires
Brigades were called to two fires on vacant land yesterday. Toronto brigade beat out a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 32
Fire Outbreak at Woomera
CANBERRA, Friday.—A fire had occurred in one of the uncompleted buildings in Woomera village, the…
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Lower Hunter councils will ask the Government for a grant to assist their campaign against fire weed…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The fire in the Lithgow State coalmine was not started deliberately or maliciously, the Chief…
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A small section of a wharf adjoining the State Dockyard was slightly damaged by fire this morning…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man who dived through a closed window to escape a factory fire to-night landed…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Dr. Evait is reported to have come under heavy fire from rank and file members at a turbulent meeting of the Labour Caucus…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police believe a licensed fishing boat gutted by fire at Rose lay last night was set alight…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (O.S.R.).—Richard Smith, 10-year-old New York schoolboy, was burned to death trying to set fire to his school. Richard and his friend Raymond Graham (13)…
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SYDNEY: Water tenders from Blackheath and Katoomba had to carry water more than two miles…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—Repeal of payroll tax legislation was urged in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. Clarcy (Lab., Vic.)…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire which gutted a factory in parramatta-road, Forest Lodge, late to-day, caused…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.— Abolition of entertainments tax by the Commonwealth was designed to thrust taxing…
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Waratah Fire Brigade yesterday used a garden hose to put out a fire in a car in Woodstock-street, Mayfield…
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A spectacular fire early this morning destroyed a workshop containing valuable machinery at Port Kembla…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The seven-year-old foster child of a couple who were burnt to death in a cottage at…
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A further inspection of No. 12 slant section of Bellbird colliery will be made to-day by men wearing proto apparatus. The object is to determine…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Damage estimated between £15,000 and £20,000 was caused by a fire which gutted…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A fire destroyed a boxmaking factory and an adjoining paint warehouse in Pitt-street, Redfern,…
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LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Firemen turned up to an blaze among cottages on an estate at Henley-on-Thames, near London, late yesterday to find they had been forestalled by a party in evening dress…
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