Factory Fire Spreads In Unusual Way
A fire at Adverts Ply Ltd factory on Victoria Street North Melbourne caused £12,000 damage and gutted the interior. Employee Gordon Patterson of Bisburgh Street North Melbourne sustained first degree burns while assisting others near a doorway as flame spread through paint thinners outside the factory.
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Melbourne
Victoria Street
North Melbourne
Adverts Ply, Ltd
Bisburgh Street
Patterson
RAAF Lincoln bomber crews hit Malaya jungle raids
RAAF members load bombs onto a Lincoln bomber at Tengah before a raid. In the photo, Sgt. Norm Seaman from Tewantin Queensland and LAC Harry Hamer from Atherton are named among the armament crew operating against jungle terrorists in Malaya since July 1950.
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RAAF
Canberra council urges reform of court and police facilities
The Advisory Council urged an early inquiry by the Minister for the Interior into the long standing need for adequate court and police buildings in Canberra. Speakers argued current facilities were substandard and deplorable with inadequate public and mothers with children spaces and unsatisfactory cells. They called for decentralising police and opening a station on the south side of Canberra.
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Fairhall
W. J
Campbell
Australia
Canberra
Melbourne
Clamant Needs of the Repatriation Department
Jolimont
Interior
House of Representatives
W. I. Byrne
P. D. Day
Canbera
New Radar May Detect Rocket Launch In Seconds
British scientists claim a crystal ball based long range radar detecting a Russian rocket within seconds of launch. The device reportedly has a range of 4000 miles or more and could warn early from London based reporting in The Sunday Graphic.
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London
A.ap.reuter
Duke Takes Place At Windsor In Queen’s Absence
The Duke of Edinburgh stood in for the Queen to review the annual St. George's Day parade of 1,000 Queen's Scouts at Windsor Castle. The Queen, recovering from a cold, had them stay in bed for the weekend.
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Duke
London
P-Reuter
Duke of Edinburgh
Windsor Castle
Boy Hurt After Fall From Bicycle in Manuka Franklin Street
A nine year old boy, Stanley Cregan, son of Mr and Mrs Cregan of Lindsay Street Griffith, was admitted to Sanberra Community Hospital after falling from his bicycle on Franklin Street Manuka yesterday morning. He suffered a probable fracture and his condition was reported as stable. He was en route to school at the time of the accident.
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Soy
Sanberra Community Hospital
Franklin Street
Manuka
Htaanley Cregan
Cregan
Lindsay Street
Griffith
Wmr
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John McGraths
John McGrath Biniele
Wnteeriehtswelse
Daper
John McGrath Motors (Pty) Ltd
Lonsdale ST
Braddon
A.C.T
FCO
Bradmill Sankos
Leesa
Commonwealth
Oh Sun
Eneum
Yao
Mimimum
NEW Commonwealth Securities
Lincoln
Canberra Court
Centroswiss
Co Rue Bailey Arcade
Petrie Street
Civic Cen
Packards, Jarmans, Thomas Davies
Halls and
Murray and Dowse
Manuka Shoe Store
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