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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

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Bush Fire Exhibit At Royal Easter Show

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 6

The Exhibit and Information Bureau of the Bush Fire Committee will be found in the Dairy Hall at the 1954 Royal…

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Fire Sweeps Hotel

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sun.--Five persons died and three are missing in a fire that swept a small hotel in Crookston,…

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Troopship Sinks After Fire

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday.--The 14,651 ton British troopship, Empire Windrush, with about 1500 persons aboard, caught fire and sank off the coast of French…

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Mill Waste Fire Brings Fine

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 2

COFFS HARBOUR.--At the Court of Petty Session, Coffs Harbour, before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., Frederick…

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Utility Severely Damaged by Fire Outbreak

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 1

A utility truck owned by Mr. V. S. Connolly, of High Street, Coffs Harbour, and driven by Mr. D. E. Bonfield, was…

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£20,000 Damage in City Fire

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--A fire which gutted the front portion of a factory building to-night caused £20,000…

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Open Air Fire Decision Reserved By S.M.

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 4

Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, reserved his decision on questions of law…

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Petrol Fire Near Rotterdam

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 6

Foam, Compound was rushed by air from London to help in fighting a big petrol fire…

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Sydney Fires

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY; Sun.--Two fires in Sydney yesterday caused more than. £5000 worth of damage…

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Fire In Pusan

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 2

PUSAN, Sun. -- Thirty seven Koreans, including 19 children, were killed when a fire swept through Pusan's…

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Five Die in Fire at Hotel

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Five men were killed and four men critically injured in an explosion, and fire…

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Brisk Blaze At South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 3

Station Officer S. H. Schwinghammer and seven members of the South Grafton Fire Brigade turned out…

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Seventh Victim Of Fire Dies

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Fri.--The seventh victim of the Cunnamulla Hotel fire last Sunday died in hospital to-day…

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Country Towns Under Fire

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 2

The cultural life of country towns and the general mode of living is under heavy fire by…

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Fire Brigade Makes Good Save

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 April 1954 · page 2

Grafton Fire Brigade, in charge of relieving station officer R. Callan, effected a splendid save of a dwelling at Westlawn yesterday…

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Maternity Home Fire Death Roll

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs.--Death roll in the fire at the Reading maternity home rose to 11 to-day…

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Explosion Causes Fire At Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 2

A kerosene refrigerator exploded in a Grafton home yesterday and caused a fire. The explosion blew the back and sides of the unit apart and spattered the…

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Fire Guts Pier

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 5

LONDON, Thurs.--Fire fanned by a strong North Sea wind gutted most of the 257 yard-long pier at…

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Set Fire to Himself

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--A deaf mute had committed suicide by setting fire to himself City Coroner, Mr. F…

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Fire Under House

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 2

Fire broke out under a house in Pound street, Grafton, about 8. a.m. on Saturday…

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