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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

379 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 19

No Fire Permits

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 September 1951 · page 2

BELLINGEN.-- No permits to light fires will be issued by the Bellingen Shire Council until…

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Grass Fire At Maclean

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 September 1951 · page 4

MACLEAN.--Maclean's fire brigade received a call on Saturday afternoon to a grass fire near the…

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Fire Destroys Flour Mill

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday-- Fire this afternoon destroyed a three storeyed flour mill at Boggabri, causing damage estimated at £150,000. Nearly 500 local residents…

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Monkery Fire

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 2

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.). --A monk is believed to have been burned to death and two people seriously…

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£40,000 Damage In Lismore Fire

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 2

LISMORE, Wednesday--Lismore's worst fire for many years, this morning destroyed the retreading works and garage, and damaged a house at the corner of Keen and Zadoc streets,…

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Bush Fire Danger Period Extended

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 7

The hot and dry conditions which have continued for some months past on the whole of the North Coast area, has made it…

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Spray to Control Fires

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 6

With the approach of summer Australians are reminded of the bush-fire dangers the season brings…

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Man Incinerated In Hut Blaze

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 1

ALBURY, Sun.--A former Indian hawker was incinerated when his hut was destroyed by fire at Henty…

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Fire Threat To Timber Stand

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 3

COFFS HARBOUR, Sun. --Officials and workmen of the Forestry Department, assisted by local residents,…

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Bush Fires Raging in District

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 1

Coffs Harbour has been enveloped in a thick smoke haze rolling in from bush fires which have been raging in the…

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Forest Fires Under Control

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 2

Although fires had swept over large areas of the coastal belt of the North Coast since Saturday, Forestry Department officials said yesterday that they had been halted before serious…

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Death In Fire Of Indian

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 1

ALBURY, Mon. -- Det.[?]Sgt. Aldridge, of the C.I.B., who is investigating the death of Puturb Singh, an…

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Bush Fire Danger Is Acute; Police Urge Caution

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 3

The bush fire danger has become so acute that Police Inspector W. O. McEwan is taking action to have regulations under the Bush Fire Prevention Act applied immediately throughout…

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Fires Worst In History Of Queensland

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 3

BRISBANE. Tues.--A huge pall of smoke from bush fires covers vast areas of Queensland, and fires are…

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Homes In Path Of Bushfires

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 3

LISMORE, Tues. -- Five families were evacuated to-night from houses in the path of bush fires which…

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Boy Scouts Fight Bush Fires

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 4

Seven boys from the 2nd Grafton Scouts troop extinguished a fierce bush fire pear their camp on…

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Forest Fires Well In Hand

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 3

Forestry officials controlling areas immediately north and south of Grafton stated last night that while the afternoon's westerly wind had alerted personnel, no fresh major…

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Bus Detour to Avoid Fire on Highway

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 3

MACKSVILLE, Wednesday.--A northward bound tourist bus with 27 passengers had to detour six miles…

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Westlawn Fire Hazard

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 2

Small water mains existing in a big area of West lawn were a fire hazard, said Ald C. Ferguson at a…

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Fire Damage In Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--A fire which swept Nally Limited plastic moulding factory, at St. Peters, this morning,…

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