Incendiarists Blamed For Ballarat Blaze BALLARAT
An outbreak of fire, evidently caused by incendiarists, was discovered to-day, when a shop occupied by the Sunshine Biscuit Company…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
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Bushfires Appeal
Additional donations to the fund opened by the Lismore branch of the Red Cross Society, to assist bushfire sufferers, are:—Mrs. J. C. McIntosh…
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The team to represent the Mullumbimby Fire Brigade in the demonstrations to be held at Katoomba next week will leave this morning…
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SYDNEY, Friday:—The biggest fire seen in Narromine for many years and the sixth in five days destroyed the Macquarie Stores…
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An incendiarist is believed to have been responsible for a fire which, early to-day, gutted the Macquarie Stores, resulting in the…
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BRISBANE, Friday:—Sergeant Nicol, of Mooroka, told Mr. J. J. Leahy in the Coroner's Court to-day that he had failed to trace the origin of…
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A utility motor truck owned by Robert Mudge, of Mullumbimby, was destroyed by fire near Bexhill. Mudge was returning from Lismore to his…
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A utility motor truck owned by Robert Mudge, of Mullumbimby, was destroyed by fire near Bexhill. Mudge was returning from Lismore to his…
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SYDNEY, Sunday:—The fire bug at Narromine was back again on Saturday night, when a fire was discovered in a small…
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Further donations received for the Lismore Red Cross Society's appeal for the relief of bushfire victims included 5s from Mrs. D. J. Jolly and…
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A fire broke out at 12.30 a.m. to-day in Ansett Airways hangar, near Melbourne, and it is believed that several 'planes were…
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Mrs. Maud Brownlee (53) was burned to death in her home at The Valley, Brisbane, this morning. In escaping from the fire, which…
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At the half-yearly meeting of the Victorian Insurance Company to-day the chairman (Mr. L. S. Miller) stated that his company would lose more than…
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Additional donations to the fund organised by the Lismore branch of the Red Cross Society to assist bush fire sufferers are: Miss Brown…
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Fire severely damaged a utility truck in the shop of Mr. G. A. West. panel beater, of. Carrington-street, Lismore, about midnight last night…
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RANGOON, Tuesday:—A Burmese gang raided and set fire to 70 houses in an Indian village near Shwedo. They were driven…
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COMPLETE mystery surrounds the cause of a fire which destroyed seven aeroplanes…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday:—Seven machines, including a Lockheed Electra 14-passenger plane, were destroyed in a 350,000 fire which…
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Finding that the Executive Council had not the power to proclaim a danger period for the lighting of fires on dates other than those…
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A further sensational development occurred to-day in connection with the reported death of Gordon Robert McKay in a fire at Piha, on February 12. Under authority given by the Minister for Health, the remains interred as those of McKay were exhumed at…
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