Memorial to Bushfire Victims
NAROOMA, Wednesday: Two young sisters, Jennifer and Mary Ottan, who lost their lives in the recent bushfires, are to have memorials…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
574 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 13 of 29
Bush Fire Precautions
The Chief Secretary's Department informed yesterday's meeting of Abercrombie Shire Council that the Bush Fire danger petrol would be…
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LONDON, Friday: Coventry's biggest five since the wartime blitz has thrown more than 1000 men out of work. The blaze occurred in a modern…
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PROMPT action by Bathurst firemen last night saved the complete destruction of the rear of the Chelsea Cafe, 92 William St…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon. -- A four storey chemical laboratory was wrecked by fire and explosions at the corner of Kent and Margaret streets, City, today, causing damage estimated at…
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At Orange [?] yesterday 71-year-old John Davison was fined £5 on a charge of lighting a fire in the spon…
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MILDURA, Monday: Damage estimated at more than £100,000 was caused by a fire at the Sunraysia Flour Mill in Mildura this afternoon…
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As a result of the recent bush fires at Mt. Stromio near Canberra, nearly 24 million super feet of pine timber will be made available for housing…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Preparations were made to take off the crew and 900 British migrants aboard the liner…
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It is thought that a few drops of water sinned a fire and caused a series of explosions which wrecked a three storey building in Mangaret…
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GRENFELL, Thursday: Two cars in a garage at Miamin Station, about 15 miles from Grenfell, were destroyed by fire last night…
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Huge clouds of thick smoke rolling upwards over a wide area between the Pinnacle and…
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HOBART, Sunday: Several big bushfires broke out in Tasmania to-day when temperatures were above normal for the third day in…
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MELBOURNE, This Aft.-- A body believed to be that of a 42 -year -old railway worker, Joseph Thompson, was found…
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TRENTON, New Jersey, Tuesday.-- Mutinous convicts under siege in a wing of the State Prison lured Warden…
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At a public meeting held at the Soldiers' Hall, Kandos on March 2G, it was decided to form a Kandos Fire Brigade…
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The Japan Motion Picture Technicians' Alliance is campaigning for more non-inflammable film production…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Regulations on Fires
People wishing to burn rubbish in the backyards or light fires in the open, in the Municipality, have to make an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Week In Canberra Two Party Leaders Under Fire (From Our Special Correspondent)
CANBERRA, Monday.— The two top Federal men in the Country Party have been under withering fire lately, but have emerged like the skilled veterans they are, surprising assailants who thought they had it all their own way. Speaking both as Treasurer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Unrest in Tunisia Police Fire on Mob
TUNIS. Tuesday: Police fired on Nationalist demonstrators yesterday when they hurled a grenade and showers of stones at the home of Tunisian…
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