Started Bush Fire Farmer Fined for Indiscretion
A Murringo farmer, who lit some weeds during the State fire danger. period, pleaded guilty at the Young Court and…
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Burning Ash Started Serious Fire Important Case Ends With Facts Proven
There was a most unusual case at the Coolamon Court of Petty Sessions, when Noel Charles Griffiths was…
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WASHINGTON, Thurday.—Communist negotiator in Korea are reported to have offered not to discuss the withdraw of foreign troops from korea until after armistice…
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Officers from Headquarters have installed an electric siren at the Colamon Fire Station. The siren can be heard for a radius of a mile…
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A nine-year-old Gundagai girl was [?] shockingly burned about the body on Sunday morning when her clothes caught alight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Korean Cease-Fire Agenda Agreed on Communists Expect Peace Inside Month
SEOUL, Thursday (A.A.P.-Reuter): The United Nations and Communist delegations at Kaesong today agreed on an agenda for discussing a cease-fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Leaving Unlighted Fire Ganmain Case (Before Mr. Denton, S.M., 18th July)
N. C. Griffiths was charged with leaving unattended a fire he had lighted in the open. Mr. McGregor, instructed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Started Fire Farmer Fined For Indiscretion
A Murringo farmer, who lit a some weeds during the State Fire Danger period pleaded guilty at the Young…
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UNITED NATIONS' ADVANCE CAMP, Korea Monday (AAP-Reuter) — Yesterday's truce talks began and ended in a deadlock over the buffer zone item, a briefing officer disclosed here last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cease-fire Talks Have Stalled U.s. Rejects Reds' Suggested Buffer Zone
WASHINGTON, Thursday.—Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, flatly rejected a Communist proposal that a butter zone be established in Koree along the 38th Parallel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Department Will Not Accept Blame Loss of Bush Fire Brigade Subsidy
The Local Government Department [?] that it is [?] no way at fault because the Illabo shire Council has not secured the…
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SYDNEY, Friday—The fire which destroyed electrical equipment at an Alexandria factory on Wednesday night would not…
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SEOUL, Thursday (A.A.P.-Reuter): The United Nations delegation today bluntly rejected the Communist demand that a neutral buffer zone in Korea should run along the 38th Parallel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nowra Goes Through Night of Terror Freak Weather Ranges From Bush Fires to Snow
SYDNEY, Thursday — Huge bush fires in the North Coast and gales and blizzards in the southern areas of the State caused widespread havoc last night…
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The complete bedding of a twin bed in a room of the Tumbarumba Hotel was destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning…
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SYDNEY, Thursday — A two-year-old baby was burned to death in her cot when a fire destroyed a weatherboard…
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Between 11 p.m. and midnight yesterday the residence of Mr. Harry Craig, snr., was destroyed by fire and he lost his life in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crazy Weather: Bushfires, Snow, Floods
SYDNEY, Thursday: Snowstorms and gale-force winds lashed towns in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania today. In contrast, bushfires raged on the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Naval Depot Fire
SYDNEY, Fri.: Arson Squad detectives revealed today that all power was cut off at the Randwick Naval Depot about…
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