Farmer Fined for Lighting Fire
CASINO, Thursday. -- A Rappville farmer was fined £3 with 12- costs for lighting a fire during the bushfire danger period, in Casino Court today. He is James Thomas…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
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Three Fined on Fire Charge
CASINO, Wednesday.--Two young men were each fined £2 with 12- costs in Casino Court today for lighting a fire during a danger period. They are Ernest L. Larson…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.-- Damage estimated at more than £100,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the old…
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SYDNEY, Monday. -- Frederick George Green, a labourer, of Neutral Bay, had sprayed her with methylated spirits and set fire to her, his wife told the Divorce Court today…
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CAIRO, Monday (AAP). -- Troops and police last night fired into marching demonstrators boisterously acclaiming General Naguib's return as President…
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A short circuit is believed to have caused a fire in a car near Lismore Fire Station last night…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--Police and army volunteers fought desperately tonight to control more than 50,000 people watching a £150,000 fire, which destroyed a four storey city building…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--A detective told Burwood Coroner's Court today that a woman admitted setting fire to a garage…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- Firemen rescued a former South Australian Senator and his daughter from the top floor…
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Foam compound was rushed by air from London to help in fighting a big petrel fire which broke out at the Royal…
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Lismore Fire Brigade extinguished a fire in a fuse box on the bridge over Wilson's Creek last night…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Two fires in Sydney yesterday caused more than £5,000 worth, of damage…
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BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Five men were killed and four men critically injured in an explosion and fire which destroyed the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla, at 2.45 p.m. today…
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LONDON, Friday.--A Soviet call for an immediate cease-fire in Indo-China highlighted cautious reaction in Western countries yesterday to United States efforts to secure support in a…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--The seventh victim of the Cunnamulla Hotel fire last Sunday died in hospital…
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KYOGLE, Sunday.--Although £1000 damage was done before the fire could be brought under control, local residents at Toonumbah saved a sawmill from being completely burnt…
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Although £1,000 damage was done before the fire could be brought under control, local residents at Toonumbah saved…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP- Reuter) .--Death roll in the fire at the Reading Maternity Home rose to 11 today…
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LONDON, Wednesday. -- Fire, fanned by a strong North Sea wind, gutted most of the 257 yard long pier at Great…
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LONDON, Wednesday. -- Nine griefstricken mothers, some carrying bundles of baby clothing, left the Dellwood Maternity Home in Reading, Berkshire, yesterday…
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