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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

324 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 17

Bush Fire Brigade Formed At Karaugi

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 February 1952 · page 1

A public meeting held at Karangi on Tuesday night decided to form a bush fire brigade in [?]ra…

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Ambulance Bearer Caught in Office Fire

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 2

A Grafton ambulance bearer. Mr. F. Gear, was almost trapped in an office of the ambulance building…

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Tax Concessions for Bush Fires

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 1

CANBERRA, Mon.—Investigation officers of the taxation Department have begun visiting centres in…

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Bush Fire Fines at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 5

Two Pillar Valley graziers, Stanley George Lloyd, and his brother, Stewart Keith Lloyd, were fined by Mr…

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Boambee Bosh Fire Brigade Formed Record Meeting, Says Shire Clerk

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 3

Congratulating Boambee farmers on the large attendance at the meeting called to form a bush fire brigade, Mr. F. A. Phillips, Bettingen Shire Clerk, said it was the best attendance he had seen at a bush fire…

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Broken Glass May Have Started Fire

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 February 1952 · page 2

BELLINGEN.—A mysterious outbreak of fire at Thora was only brought under control, after…

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Fire in Theatre

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1952 · page 4

GAUDALAJARA (Mexico), Thurs., (AAP).—Six persons died here last night when a fire broke out near…

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Fined £25 for Lighting Fire

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 February 1952 · page 2

Alexander Colin Kidd, aged 39, of no fixed abode, appeared in the Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on…

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Fire Ban Still On

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 February 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. — The Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, to-day extended the total ban on lighting fires…

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Fire Destroys Block Of Flats

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY. Sun. — Men. women and children, dressed only in night attire, leaped from windows…

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Only Few Claims for Fire Losses

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 2

Yesterday two officers from the Taxation Department and one from the Commerce and Agricultural…

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Shipworkers Trapped By Fire

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—A fire below decks on a former LST trapped six workmen at Balmain to-day…

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Bush Fire Sufferers and Taxation Relief

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 1

The Deputy Commissioner for Taxation, Mr. I. W. Hughes, has forwarded a letter to a number of Coffs Harbour…

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Boambee B/Fire Brigade Formed 70 Farmers Present

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 7

Congratulating Boambee farmers on their public-spiritedness, Mr. F. A. Phillips, Bellingen Shire Clerk, added:…

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Banana Growers Claim Bushfire Damage £5629 for Coffs Harbour District

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 1

The sum of £5629 was approved to be paid from the Coffs Harbour and District Banana Growers' Fire Insurance Fund to 14 growers whose plantations were damaged by bush fires which swept through the district on…

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Fire Ban Withdrawn

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 March 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.—The total prohibition on the lighting of fires in the open on coastal and Tableland areas of…

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Wants Inquiry Into Bush Fire Causes

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—The Legislative Assembly to-morrow will consider motion that a Royal…

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Correspondence Bush Fires

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 7

Sir,—After reading the two articles in your paper of 22nd. instant, I thing the following facts might be of interest…

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Korora Busb Fire Brigade

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 11

Officials of Korora Bush Fire Brigade are grateful for the assistance given, the appeal for funds and express gratitude to…

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Forests Hit By Fires

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.—Bushfires have put back the State's timber industry 15 years, the Minister for…

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