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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

398 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 19 of 20

Volunteers Fight Fires COBAR

National Advocate · Wednesday 13 December 1950 · page 3

A bushfire on a two mile front near Cobar was still burning tonight. Many people from the town have left to fight the blaze…

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This Fire Was Soon Out But Dangers Are Great

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 13 December 1950 · page 2

Well within 15 minutes of receiving the alarm, Sub-station Officer T. Nash and five men were hack at the station after extinguishing, a grass fire in…

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Rubbish Fire

National Advocate · Thursday 14 December 1950 · page 2

Bathurst Fire Brigade was called yesterday to extinguish a fire which had broken out in a rubbish pile at the rear of Fossey's store in Howick…

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Cease Fire Move U.N. Resolution Lake Success

National Advocate · Thursday 14 December 1950 · page 2

Britain and the United States yesterday told the UN Political Committee that they supported the proposal of the 13 Asian and Middle East…

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Launceston's Disastrous Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 15 December 1950 · page 2

LAUNCESTON, This Afternoon.-- The worst fire in the history of Launceston last night gutted two buildings and damaged others in the…

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Yesterday’s Fire Call

Central Western Daily · Friday 15 December 1950 · page 1

Orange Fire Brigade received a call to a grass fire in Dalton Street, immediately behind the Base Hospital, at 2.5 p.m…

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Children Incinerated Fire Destroys Home

National Advocate · Friday 15 December 1950 · page 1

COONAMBLE, Thursday: At Coonamble this afternoon three children were burned to death when their parents' new home was destroyed by fire…

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Children Die In Fire At Coonamble

Central Western Daily · Friday 15 December 1950 · page 3

At Coonamble this afternoon, three children were burned to death when their parents’ new home was…

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Cease Fire Discussions Soviet Opposition Rejected Lake Success

National Advocate · Friday 15 December 1950 · page 2

Rejecting opposition from the Soviet group, the United Nations Political Committee has approved the appointment of a three-member…

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Bushfire Menace Of Pottery

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 15 December 1950 · page 1

While the bushfire danger grows acutely more serious each day, Pottery residents fear that several homes in the gully…

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Fire at S.C.G. Cigarette Blamed for Blaze

National Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: A fire damaged portion of a stand at the Sydney Cricket Ground this afternoon. It is thought the fire was started by…

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Coonamble Tragedy Fatal Fire Inquiry

National Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1950 · page 1

COONAMBLE. Friday: An inquiry. into the deaths of three children a, Coonamble yesterday will be held this week…

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Cease-fire Proposal Outcome in Doubt

National Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1950 · page 2

FLUSHING. MEADOW, Friday: The United Nations General Assembly, by 52 votes to five, yesterday approved the proposal by 13 Arab and As[?]…

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Bushfire Danger Grave State Proclaimed Area

National Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY. Friday: New South Wales faces one of the gravest fire dangers in its history and a bushfire danger proclamation has…

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Bush Fire Danger

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 18 December 1950 · page 12

The bush fire danger period commenced on Friday last, and will continue until March 31. The lighting on fires in [?]ly prohibited during…

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Latest Local News Fire

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 18 December 1950 · page 3

A fire broke out in a small storage shed near the loco depot on Thursday night last, and the structure together with its…

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Chinese Reject Cease-Fire Move

Central Western Daily · Monday 18 December 1950 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Sunday.—The Chinese People’s Republic yesterday virtually rejected the Korean ceasefire proposal, which it called a “trap,” but at the same time it declared its willingness to strike for a…

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Hopes Off "Cease fire" In Korea Have Dwindled

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 December 1950 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Monday.--The three-man United Nations mediation committee held an urgent meeting yesterday to discuss plans in the light of Communist China's reception of the United Nations cease-fire formula…

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Fire Was Too Small To See!

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 19 December 1950 · page 1

A grass fire in Lord’s Place, to which Orange Fire Brigade was summoned yesterday, was so small that the brigade crew passed it on the way to the wrong address further along the street. A few minutes before 1 p.m…

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Hopes Fade for Cease - FIRE U.S. Attitude

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 December 1950 · page 2

LAKE SUCCESS, Monday: American attitude towards a cease fire in Korea are believed here to have stiffened in the last few days and the…

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