Boy's £2000 Fire Was Like Xmas
LONDON: A 12-year-old boy who caused a £2000 fire at the 17th century Ryhope Old Hall,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
584 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 30
Fire Damage: £30,000
MELBOURNE, Friday.— A fire, believed to have been started by thieves, in the premises of Coburn Modes Pty…
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MEMPHIS, Tennessee), Oct. 3. A.A.P.—The Mississippi riverfront was rocked by a series of explosions during a…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Fire caused damage estimated at more than £40,000 to a leather tannery at Botany to-night…
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SYDNEY: Detectives believe a gang of children—some under 10 —has been pillaging and starting fires in Botany factories for two years. They believe the gang…
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The President of Kearsley Shire Council (Cr. Fell) said last night that dry conditions this winter increased the…
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SYDNEY: About 100 civilians and firemen carted water for hours last night to fight a bushfire which menaced 50 homes at Newport. The homes menaced are…
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The president (Cr. T. Fell) today warned residents of Kearsley Shire that a bushfire danger period had been proclaimed for the shire from Oct. 1 to Feb. 28…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →POP.— Fire Without Smoke
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It was hoped discolouration of water in the Newcastle, area would clear up in a day or two, the President of Hunter District Water Board (Mr. Finnan) said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfire Menaces Luxury Homes In Avalon District
SYDNEY: A bushfire raging on a four-mile front at Avalon today is menacing luxury homes and weekend cottages. A strong force of firemen this morning Was…
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Lower Hunter Shire Clerk reported today that a bushfire danger period had been proclaimed from…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A bushfire at Newport to-night threatened more than 30 holiday and permanent…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Wireless patrol police this morning rescued a badly injured woman from a blazing…
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SYDNEY: Careless cigarette smokers started three simultaneous fires on the Harbor Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Canterbury Run For Gypsy Tide Or For Liquid Fire
SYDNEY: Liquid Fire, topweight and one of the early fancies for the Welter Handicap, and Gypsy Tide, who would have been well in the market for the Belmore Stakes, are not to start at Canterbury tomorrow…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — One hundred and twenty children fled for their lives when a husfire threatened their school at Prince Edward Park, on the Woronora…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Winds Fan 30 South Coast Fires
SYDNEY: Bushfircs, fanned by strong winds, are raging through parched, tinder-dry country all along the South Coast where 30 fires, extending from Nowra almost to the Victorian border, are causing grave anxiety…
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KEMPSEY, Tuesday.-Fire destroyed a sawmill and stacked timber near Telegraph Point about 25 miles from…
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A combination of a generally wet winter in the forests and a particularly dry period in the western area of…
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