Seven Children Saved From Fire
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Seven children were assisted to safety from a midnight fire in a shopdwelling at Sale, 127 miles from…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
404 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 21
Quietest Postwar Year for Casino Fire Brigade
CASINO, Wednesday.—Casino Fire Brigade answered 20 alarms, five of which were false, in the past 12 months…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The entire shopping block at Rainbow was threatened by fire which swept through two shops and a…
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LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday (AAP.)—Despite failure of the United Nations cease-fire group to mediate with the Chinese Communists on Korea, the United States remains ready to negotiate with the Peking Regime at the "appropriate time and appropriate forum"…
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A Rosebank banana worker was treated at Lismore Ambulance Station on Saturday for burns to both hands…
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SINGAPORE, Wednesday (AAPReuter).—Police fired at a disorderly crowd of 100 Malays and Indonesians armed with bottles last…
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MACLEAN.—The Coroner (Mr. W. J. Rolph) found that The Ritz private hotel at Yamba, was accidentally destroyed by fire…
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A motor cycle was extensively damaged when it burst into flames in Woodlark Street, Lismore, outside the Richmond Hotel, late…
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Lismore Fire Brigade attended 54 fires during 1950, but only two were serious. This was revealed by the officer-in-charsre of the brigade (Mr. W. Cork) yesterday…
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PARIS, Sunday (AAP).—Thirty of 50 passengers perished, when the Vietnamese steamer, Trung Viet, caught fire on January 8…
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CHICAGO, Sunday (AAP).—A fourth fireman died yesterday from injuries suffered in the warehouse fire and explosion that was viewed…
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HONGKONG, Wednesday (AAP-Reuter).—Peking Radio this afternoon, broadcast, for the first time, details of the United Nations' five…
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BALTIMORE (Maryland), Wednesday (AAP).—An uncontrollable fire swept by a 40 m.p.h. wind destroyed a five million dollar…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday (AAP).—The United States is testing a super velocity gun to fire shells equiped with fins. Experts hope the new weapons…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday (AAP).—The Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Rusk, told senators yesterday that the United States had supported the latest United Nations appeal for a Korean cease-fire in the…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—All available men are fighting a bush fire raging on a 50 mile front near Charleville and Wyndra, in the…
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WASHINGTON, Thursday (AAP).—Government officials and Corigress[?] in expect Communist China's rejection of the United Nations cease-fire proposals for Korea to strengthen the American move to have China branded as an aggressor…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.âThree Adelaide police officers were burned to death while fighting a fierce bushfire in a gully at Upper Sturt…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Forty men are fighting a six mile wide fire 80 miles east of Wyandra in South West Queensland…
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LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday (AAP).—New terms by Communist China for a settlement of the Korean war and other Far East issues were submitted to the United Nations Political Committee yesterday by Sir…
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