Big Fires Towards Glen Innes
Serious fires were raging yesterday in the area from Buccarumbi to Newton Boyd, a distance of from 30 to 60 miles from Grafton towards Glen Innes…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Fire Nearly Delayed Cup
MELBOURNE, Tues.--A grass fire on the course at Flemington to-day, threatened to delay the Melbourne…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Landowners who had suffered loss through bushfires would receive sympathetic…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Disastrous bushfires broke out again to-day in valuable grazing land and timber forests throughout New South Wales. Forestry Commission officials estimated to-night that…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--Nearly 750,000 acres of [?]razing land and forests have been destroyed by fire in…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--Special measures have been taken by post offices throughout the State to provide…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--The blanket prohibition on the lighting of fires in the open on the Far North Coast will not be extended, the Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, said in the Legislative Assembly to-day…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Fri.--Despite the hot and windy conditions, Forestry Commission officers were able to…
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Nymboida Shire Council will co-operate with the Police Department in investigating the possibility of forming Bush Fire Brigades in country areas…
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GLEN INNES.--At the resumed coronial inquiry into the cause of fires at the Glen Innes Practice School…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--Three new bush fires broke out to-night in the Baradine State Forest…
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BRISBANE, Fri.--One man lost his life and three others suffered burns while fighting bush fires in…
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LISMORE.--Fear, that the attitude adopted by Gundurimba Shire Council on the proclamation of a…
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BRISBANE, Sun.--Fierce blazes in 12 Brisbane suburbs were fanned by wind gusts hampering firemen…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Sunday--Strong winds on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning further aggravated the bush fire position in the Clarence-Coffs Harbour-Dorrigo forestry…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--Bushfires in danger areas of the State have slackened, or have been brought under control…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--The Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, to-night re-issued the proclamation prohibiting…
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LISMORE, Monday--The backfire of a car engine is believed to have started a fire in long grass which…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Firebugs deliberately started 23 forest fires from July to October, the Minister for…
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MAITLAND.--A rabbiter who set fire to fern and grass on Deadman's Creek, near Seaham, on Saturday,…
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