Girls' screams in N.Z. fire
WELLINGTON (NZ), Monday. --A cranedriver who was outside Ballantyne's when the fire broke out told the Commission of Inquiry today that about 10 girls on the…
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Heat Crowds All Beaches Bushfire Warning in Country
The weather in the whole of New South Wales yesterday was fine and hot. In Sydney more than 150,000 people…
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Flames leap from the engine of a small car which caught fire in Martin-place early today. Firemen extinguished the blaze. In the second picture the owner tries unsuccessfully to smother the flames…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Expenses and amounts paid to players for "personal" and hotel expenditure has had…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Expenses and amounts paid to players for "personal" and hotel expenditure has had…
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A WAKENED by smoke early today, a man found his 52-years-old father unconscious on the floor of his bedroom…
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A WAKENED by smoke early today, a man found his 52-years-old father unconscious on the floor of his bedroom…
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PRAGUE, Thursday. -- Police fired on students marching towards President Benes' palace after he had capitulated to Premier Gottwald and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Confidence Motion Cosgrove Govt. Under Fire Charges Over "Secret Funds"
HOBART, Thursday.--A vote on the no confidence motion in the House of Assembly will be taken tonight, but it is certain that the Government will…
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HOBART, Thursday.--A vote on the no confidence motion in the House of Assembly will be taken tonight, but it is certain that the Government will…
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THE bush-fire demon, which causes an average of £30,000 damage each year in NSW, is still far from conquered either in…
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While a brigade raced from Gunnedah, 23 miles away, residents of Boggabri fought desperately…
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A small truck was almost destroyed and two men narrowly escaped being burned when petrol ex…
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Damage estimated at nearly £2000 was caused by fire at Central Brick and Tile Co., Albert-street, St. Peters, early…
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A short circuit set fire to a refrigerator and blew out radios and lights in a…
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A small truck was almost destroyed and two men narrowly escaped being burned when petrol ex…
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The captain of the American freighter Cecil G. Sellars (7216 tons), which is on fire in the…
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The captain of the American freighter Cecil G. Sellars (7216 tons), which is on fire in the…
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Firemen from Stanmore, Concord, and Burwood brigades early this morning put out a fire which started in a quantity of…
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MR. J. H. TONKIN (left) and Mr. E. J. Hallatrom discussing the fire which gatted the cabinet packing…
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