29 Horses Die In Stable Fire
CHICAGO, Sept 12. A.A.P.—At least 29 racehorses perished late last night when a fire destroyed a stable…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
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Big Blaze At Inverell
INVERELL, Monday—Fire early to-day destroyed most of Inverell's newest and biggest shopping block…
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Newcastle City Council decided last night to urge the Board of Fire Commissioners to erect the proposed new…
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The Lord Mayor (Ald. Purdue) believes that existing fire protection in the Newcastle area is adequate…
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SYDNEY. —Bush fire-fighting equipment worth more than £117,000 is being delivered to councils…
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SYDNEY: The method of prohibiting the lighting of fires in the open air that would be followed should the need arise during the coming summer, was announced today by the…
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A fire in a store shed at the rear of a shop in High St., Mainland, today, threatened a new sedan…
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RABAUL, Sept. 15. A.A.P.- Reuter.—Bushfires marred the public holiday held through the territory to-day to…
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New South Wales has been divided into weather districts for swift notification against lighting fires in the open…
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Some motorists showed complete disregard to the rights of fire engines going to fires, the President of the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— Police and firemen removed people from five houses when fire gutted a textile factory at…
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Three men worked desperately to drag the body of a New Australian motor-cyclist from beneath a blazing truck near Albury yesterday…
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A small quantity of cotton and the wall of a storeroom at Bradford Cotton Mills at Rutherford was…
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KEMPSEY: The southerly gale yesterday brought down an 11,000 volt high-tension wire which set fire…
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TORONTO, Sept. 20. A.A.P. — Five racehorses were burnt to death and two were so badly burnt that they…
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A large quantity of cotton was damaged in a fire at Bradford Cotton Mills, at Rutherford yesterday…
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LONDON, Tues. (OSR) —Arabella Churchill, the five-year-old granddaughter of the Prime…
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CANBERRA. — Some Labor members want to prevent Opposition Leader Dr. Evatt making…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire broke out in the Royal Australian Navy's "hoodoo" ship H.M.A.S. Tarakan again…
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SYDNEY.—Fire damaged a large quantity of coconut fibre at the factory of Fibretex Ltd., Princes…
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