Bushfire Hero Died Today
BRISBANE: The hero of a bushfire tragedy, Rex Halloran, 28, died from severe burns in Hugrhenden…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
584 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 30
EDITORIAL Only Care Can Beat The Bushfires
ONCE again as the approach of high summer turns millions of acres of this State into a huge tinder box, responsible authorities are warning us of the grave…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A fire on the ground floor of a tobacco and cigarette factory in Brisbane to-day caused…
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George Swinscoe (46) of Booragul received bruises to the right ankle and right forearm when he fell…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.— The third victim of a bushfire on Sunday died in Hughenden Hospital to-day…
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WOLLONGONG.—Fire last night damaged 25 bales of cotton in a hold of the 8143-ton Dutch…
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PORT KEMBLA, Wednesday.— About 25 bales of cotton were destroyed by a fire in No. 2 hold of the freighter…
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KYOGLE.—Fire yesterday destroyed the R.S.L. Memorial Hall at Bonalbo. The blaze spread so…
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HONGKONG, Nov. 21. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Five Chinese were killed and 12 injured when fire swept through the…
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LISMORE, Sunday.— Bonalbo Memorial Hall was destroyed by a fire to-day. The damage is estimated at…
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A fire in a coal bunker at Zara-st. Power Station this morning was quickly brought under control by…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A fireman was injured when the floor of a blazing building collapsed in Macquarie-street,…
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Cook's Hill and Carrington brigades late yesterday quickly put out a fire on planking on the old section of a wharf…
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Fire broke out in a coal bunker at Zara-street Power Station yesterday morning. It was controlled quickly, and…
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TAREE: Fire destroyed three shops in Pultney St. yesterday. The premises were those of William Bell…
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COOMA.—John Longford, aged 3, of Cooma, fell into an open fire to-day, but was pulled clear…
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SYDNEY: A roof and top floor of a blazing city building today caved in with a tremendous crash, showering thousands of sparks on watchers below…
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HONG KONG, Thursday (A.A.P.).—Fire last night destroyed 100 wooden huts in the densely-populated…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Group Around Log Fire At World Y.W.C.A. Talks
Eighty-five Y.W.C.A. delegates to the third Y.W.C.A. World Conference held their first meeting last Monday around a log fire in Marysville,…
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A garage owned by William Kelly, of Dirkin-street, Macksville, and a car owned by Gloucester Evans, a hawker,…
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