Appeal on Fire Damages
SYDNEY, Monday.—Judgment for £45,000 bushfire damages against the Railways Commissioner was against the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
584 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 30
Sixth Death In Hotel Fire
BRISBANE: The deathroll in the Cunnamulla hotel fire has increased to six…
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Fire in a pole substation at Redhead last night damaged electrical equipment and caused interruptions to local…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P. & S.S.)—A call for an immediate cease-fire in Indo-China was made yesterday by the Russian Government newspaper "Izvestia". It said this would allow talks to start between France and the…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—The seventh Cunnamulla fire victim died in hospital to-day. He was Arthur Reginald…
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LADY WHITE, wife of the Australian High Commissioner, entertains 24-year-old Miss Vola Vandere to tea. She performed her famous Indian Fire Dance at the recent Boomerang Club Party, at…
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NEW YORK, April 11. A.A.P.—Kerosene thrown on smouldering ashes in a stove started a fire in…
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Hamilton Fire Brigade attended a rubbish fire at the rear of premises in Gordon-avenue yesterday. Belmont…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by a fire which swept through…
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LONDON, April 18. A.A.P.—Thirty-one officers and men had to jump for their lives when a British warship was swept by fire and capsized in the Channel early…
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NEW YORK, April 18. A.A.P.—Four American thoroughbreds were killed when a fire swept through a…
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BRISBANE.—The pilot and two passengers of a Dragon Kapide aircraft were injured when the…
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LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.): Fifteen babies, the eldest "nine days old, were rescued from a burning nursery at Reading (Berkshire), last night. The youngest, born six…
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LONDON, April 19. A.A.P.—Five of 15 babies rescued from a burning nursery in a Reading (Berkshire) nursing home early yesterday morning are…
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Both drivers jumped from their cabins and were uninjured. Only two of the drums of…
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AMMAN, April 20. A.A.P. — Jordan alleged that Israelis fired on Jordan National Guards in two frontier…
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GRASS-SKIRT GIRL with the spear is 17-year-old fire dancer Selina Rao from Brazil. Selina is in Britain with 17 other Brazilian girls and together they will dance around a "fire" during a world…
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SYDNEY. — Tenement dwellers in Systrum St., Ultimo, fled from their homes at 1.30 a.m. today…
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LONDON, April 20. A.A.P. —A fire which threatened to engulf the top floor of the six-storied Grosvenor Hotel in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. —An early morning fire in an Ultimo factory to-day forced nearby residents to flee from…
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