SYDNEY OIL FlRE—The railway bulk store at Lilyfield, Sydney, on fire last Monday. More than 100 44-gallon drums of oil fed the flames, which took two hours to raze the building and caused about £750,000 worth of damage. The building was set alight by a small grass Are nearby.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26212, 8 September 1950, Page 5
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49SYDNEY OIL FlRE—The railway bulk store at Lilyfield, Sydney, on fire last Monday. More than 100 44-gallon drums of oil fed the flames, which took two hours to raze the building and caused about £750,000 worth of damage. The building was set alight by a small grass Are nearby. Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26212, 8 September 1950, Page 5
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