Insurance Losses Through Bushfire Damage
Because of heavy bushfire losses, the company's loss ratio for the past year increased by 6.6 per cent., said the chairman…
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Sunny Side Up When Fires Were Fires
MANY young firemen want to revert to shining brass helmets, because these are "more…
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MANILA, Feb. 8.—Manila is being ravaged by the Japanese as they fall back before the Americans, who have cleared the city north of the Pasig River. Large fires light the sky each night above the…
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ACCORDING to reports, Fire Brand is going to meet with heavy support in the second division of the Encourage Handicap at…
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ACCORDING to reports, Fire Brand is going to meet with heavy support m the second division of the Encourage Handicap at…
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PERTH, Friday.--Heat and debris from a bushfire have killed nearly 80,000 trout m the hatcheries near Collie. The trout ranged from…
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Skeleton staffs of 120 officers stood by at Sydney and suburban fire stations yesterday while 700 firemen attended a stop-work meeting. Except for two small grass…
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MELBOURNE, Sat. -- Ten children escaped from a blazing house in Balwyn tonight…
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AFTER a mass meeting of 600 firemen had decided by two to one yesterday not to go on strike, a fire broke out in the Plumbers'…
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LONDON, Sat. -- Police and firemen were called out to stop a midnight riot in St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Boys' School yesterday. Later two former prefects, aged 17 and 18 years, were…
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SALARIED railway staff manned the Brisbane Express and other passenger trains, when crews walked off at Grafton railway station yesterday…
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Amazing fortitude was shown by Coroporal Robert Phippard, 21, of the RAAF, who met his…
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WHILE the executive of the Officers' Association was conferring and the Board of Fire Commissioners was…
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WHILE the executive of the Officers' Association was conferring and the Board of Fire Commissioners was…
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Sydney firemen struck yesterday after a fireman had been suspended by the Chief Fire Officer (Mr. Beare)…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--While Mr, Henry Taylor, Belmore Rd., Balwyn, was at the Women's Hospital on Saturday night arranging for the homecoming of his wife and their 11th baby, their home was burnt to the ground. FEARING that Mrs. Taylor may…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--While Mr. Henry Taylor, Belmore Rd., Balwyn, was at the Women's Hospital on Saturday night arranging for the homecoming of his wife and their 11th baby, their home was burnt to the ground. FEARING that Mrs. Taylor may…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--While Mr. Henry Taylor, 'Belmore Rd., Balwyn, was at the Women's Hospital on Saturday night arranging for the homecoming of his wife and their 11th baby, their home was burnt to the ground. FEARING that Mrs. Taylor may…
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While the executive of the officers' Association was conferring, are the Board of Fire Commissioners was meeting upstairs at…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--While Mr. Henry Taylor, Belmore Rd., Balwyn, was at the Women's Hospital on Saturday night arranging for the homecoming of his wife and their 11th baby, their home was burnt to the ground. FEARING that Mrs. Taylor may…
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