Fire Station Refused Adamstown
The Board of N.S.W. Fire Commissioners last night refused a request by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle (Ald…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
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Rationing Goes Out In Blaze
LONDON, July 4. A.A.P.—Bonfires lit by housewives all over England last night were…
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SYDNEY: Bush fires caused damage of £607,000 in New South Wales during the 1953-54 season,…
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The use of fire floats for fire fighting along Newcastle waterfront may be considered by the Board of Fire Commissioners. The question is likely to be considered in connec-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Talks Open on Cease-fire "No Surrender" Says France
LONDON, July 4. A.A.P.—Cease-fire talks began in Indo-China to-day as French troops retreated from a bastion in their Hanoi defence perimeter…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Anna Abrahams, 32, of Bourke-street, who fell asleep while smoking a cigarette in her…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Bushfire damage totalling £607,000 in N.S.W. in the 1953-54 season, involved an…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A crippled man was burnt to death at Balgowlah this afternoon…
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AS FIERY as gunpowder? Film star Rita Moreno in a giant fourth of July fire-cracker. She appears…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Brothers Burnt In Fire
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two brothers, George Toolan, 39, and Andrew Toolan, 37, were burnt in a fire on the third…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A schoolgirl was severely burnt this afternoon when her dress caught fire while she was…
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NEW YORK, July 7. A.A.P.—Immediate steps to give self-government to Western Samoans was…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Four men were burned in a fire at a Lidcombe factory this afternoon…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A motor-cyclist crashed into a telegraph pole in Mt. Alexander-road, Essendon,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petrol-Milker Fire Theory
MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Police believe a man "milking" petrol from a car was responsible for a fire which…
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WELLINGTON, July 11. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Scientific records of New Zealand's research into North Island…
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SYDNEY: A burning oxy-acetylene torch left by fleeing thieves caused £3500 damage in a Yennora factory early this morning…
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Valuable boatbuilding plant was destroyed by a fire which gutted Towns's boatshed on Dempsey…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A fire which destroyed a £5000 office building at Yannora was started early to-day by safe…
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Damage estimated by the owner at £40,000, was caused by fire which gutted…
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