£13,000 Loss In Qld. Fire
BRISBANE, Saturday. -- The only store, a butcher shop and a bakery in the town of Canungra were destroyed by fire about…
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Factory Fire at Newtown Fireman Injured
Sub-station Officer V. Redman, of Newtown fire station, received a severe electric shock when an overhead wire fell in a factory…
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Large quantities of furniture and machinery were destroyed last night when a fire gutted the Olympia Cabinet Company's works, King St., Newtown. WHEN firemen arrived, the…
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BRISBANE, Saturday. -- The only store, a butcher shop and a bakery in the town of Canungra were destroyed by fire about…
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BRISBANE, Saturday. When a fire destroyed the main business block at Canungra late on Friday night it left Canungra's 650…
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Severe burns were suffered last night by a man whose family found him lying unconscious in a blazing fowl-house at the back of his home in…
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The Japanese are almost convinced that MacArthur is human but they take no chance of offending his vanity, reports…
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Former Test Rugby Union hooker Alby Stone had a lucky escape at work during the week when a vat of molten…
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BRISBANE, Sat. -- Fire last night destroyed the food supply of 650 residents of Canungra, 48 miles from Brisbane…
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BATAVIA, Monday.-- Great fires, started by Indonesians to delay the Dutch advance, are raging in rich Sumatra, oilfields, south of Palembang…
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BATAVIA, Monday.--Great fires, started by Indonesians to delay the Dutch advance, are raging in rich Sumatra oilfields, south of Palembang…
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BATAVIA, Monday.--Great fires, started by Indonesians to delay the Dutch advance, are raging in rich Sumatra oilfields, south of Palembgna…
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CANBERRA, Monday. -- Two mysterious fires have broken out in the Prices Branch in Canberra in the past fortnight…
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CANBERRA, Monday. -- Two mysterious fires have broken out in the Prices Branch in Canberra in the past fortnight…
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BATAVIA, Monday.-- Great fires started by Indonesians to delay the Dutch advance, are raging in rich Sumatra oilfields, south of Palembang…
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BATAVIA, Monday. -- Great fires, started by Indonesians to delay the Dutch advance, are raging in rich Sumatra oilfields, south of Palembang…
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BATAVIA, Monday. -- Great fires, started by Indonesians to delay the Dutch advance, are raging in rich Sumatra oilfields, south of Palembang…
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TOKYO, July 27 (A.A.P.-Reuters). —The personal records of all Australian troops at B.C.O.F. headquarters in Japan have been destroyed in…
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TOKIO, Tuesday. -- Fires which destroyed documents and official records at British Commonwealth Force headquarters…
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BELLINGEN, Tuesday.--A number of homes were evacuated when they were threatened by a fire which destroyed Pike…
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