Egyptians Fire On British Truck Patrol
FAYID (Suez Canal Zone), Sun. (AAP).--British troops of the First Lincolnshire Regiment were fired on yesterday at Port Said. The Lincolnshires, who were on truck…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Central Bucca Mill Destroyed in Expensive Blaze
The Central Bucca mill owned by Mr. Tom Seccombe was destroyed by fire on Sunday afternoon. Although the bulk…
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KEMPSEY, Tues.--A pall of smoke and dust hangs over the whole Macleay Valley, which has been…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--In a heavy hailstorm 100 firemen fought a blaze which roared through a block of…
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Strong westerly winds at times reaching gale force, dry searing heat and recurrence of bushfires made yesterday one of the most unpleasant days for many months on the Clarence…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--The executive member of the Bushfire Committee, Mr. A. G. Kingsmill, to-day appealed to shire councils to exercise their discretion in the issue of permits for lighting fires with the fullest regard…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday--Hundreds of bushfires fanned by gale force winds, are sweeping many parts of the…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Twenty-six State forests had been involved in bush fires during the last 24 hours up…
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DARWIN, Wednesday--Believed by experts to be one of the biggest in history, a fire has burned out 1,250,000 acres in the Northern Territory…
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Although fires were still burning in State and other forest areas on the Clarence, in the Coffs Harbour sector and at Glenreagh last night, immediate danger of further serious out…
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Considerable confusion has arisen on the Clarence about the provisions of the Bush Fifes Act, 1949…
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Fanned by strong winds over the past few days, bush fires around the district are fanning out into serious outbreaks. Large fires through the…
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MACKSVILLE, Thursday.--High westerly winds freshened bush fires in many parts of the Nambucca River district to-day. No further damage has been reported, although further extensive areas of grass and…
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This morning the Shire Clerk, Mr. Ray E. Smith, received a telegram from the Chief Secretary. stating that the Lighting…
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Although bushfires in the Clarence district were yesterday fanned by strong westerlies, the position was satisfactory last night except for the Coffs Harbour-Woolgoolga area…
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DARWIN, Thurs.-- The position of the huge grass fire sweeping through the north-west corner of the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday--Bushfires had invaded a further 19 State forests in the past 24 hours, the Minister for Conservation, Mr. G. Weir, said in the Legislative Assembly, this…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--If fire recurred in the old two-storey wooden building at present being used as a…
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Yesterday afternoon an "Advocate representative flew over the Nambucca-Woolgoolga bushfire area. A hevy bank…
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Forestry officials in the Clarence River area said last night that a weather change had helped to control bush fires, most of which were now under control…
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