Man Claims Attack Caused Fire
SYDNEY, Thursday. â Alfred Santuci, a former French Navy cook, told police to-day he had been battered…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
584 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 30
Fire Destroys Church, Hall
BRISBANE, Sunday.— A Brisbane church and parish hall were destroyed and a five-room house partly destroyed…
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BRISBANE. — A church and parish hall were gut-ted and a nine-room house badly damaged in a £20,000…
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The rider and his pillion passenger were injured when their motor-cycle and a car collided on Main-road, Booragul,…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Four two-storied shops, including a big department store, were gutted in a fire at Kesang, in northern Victoria, to-day. Damage is estimated at…
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ISTANBUL, Mon. (A.A.P.). — A fire which raged through Istanbul's famous covered bazaar at the weekend destroyed 1600 shops hi 34 streets. More than 1300 people have been ruined by…
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ISTANBUL, Nov. 29. A.A.P.—A fire which raged through Istanbul's famous covered bazaar destroyed 1600…
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HONGKONG, Nov. 29. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Captain Byrte Fremming, master of the Danish freighter Emilie Maersk…
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LITHGOW—Reginald Brazil, of Rabaul St., Lithgow, was dragged to safety by his father when…
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LISMORE.—An army of 140 men, backed by £12,000 worth of equipment, is preparing to fight…
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MOSCOW (Reuter).—Beggars, alleged to haunt the streets by day and to squander their "earnings"…
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GOSFORD, Wednesday.— Damage believed to be about £2000 was caused when a van used by railway workers…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —With the start of summer to-day, two R.A.A.F. aircraft went on permanent bushfire…
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LONDON, Fri. (O.S.R.): The toy which seemed to impress the Queen most on her Christmas shopping expedition yesterday was a toy ray-gun. Looking at the gun ob-…
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Fires in scaled off sections, followed by a creep, are stated to have caused a huge loss of coal in No. 1 tunnel of…
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GOSFORD, Thursday. —Three boys were remanded in Gosford Children's Court to-day on charges of having…
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BRISBANE, Sunday. — Two fires in South Brisbane and Manly, last night and early this morning, caused damage estimated at £250,000…
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WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. A.A.P. — Fire destroyed most of the State school at Fielding, near Palmerston North,…
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GOSFORD: Two eight-year-old boys and one aged 10 were remanded in. Gosford Children's Court…
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SYDNEY.—Mr. T. J. Smith may resign as chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners early…
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