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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

137 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 7 of 7

Tuncurry Wants Fire Fighting Equipment

The Northern Champion · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 2

Tuncurry Progress Association will ask Manning Shire Council to initiate steps to have fire fighting equipment…

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Outside Fire Lighting Prohibited

The Northern Champion · Friday 30 November 1951 · page 6

A proclamation prohibiting the lighting of fires in the open air in any part of the State from midnight on…

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Minister To Aid Bushfire Victims—

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 30 November 1951 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said his week that this Department would be represented on the…

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Fire Fine

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 December 1951 · page 3

At Wauchope Court of Petty Sessions last week, before Mr. E. Debenham, S.M., the Hornsby Sawmill Company was fined £35 with court…

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South Kempsey Fire Anxious Moments

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 December 1951 · page 1

A grass and bush-fire which broke out in Bloomfield Street, South Kempsey, almost opposite the Methodist Church,…

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Unauthorised Fire in Open Brings Fine

The Northern Champion · Friday 7 December 1951 · page 8

Lighting a fire in the open without a permit dining a period in which permission was obligatory, resulted in a…

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£6,000 Loss in Hay Shed Fire

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 7 December 1951 · page 1

A grass fire on the St. Aubin's stud farm, near Scone, this week burnt out a large hay shed valued at about £6,000. The fire destroyed…

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Bushfires On Blue Mountains

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 7 December 1951 · page 3

Forty-nine houses were destroyed, leaving hundreds of people homeless, in bushfires which swept the eastern slopes…

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Buckets Ablaze Last Night With Bushfire Council Called for Men to Save Menaced Homes

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 7 December 1951 · page 3

When flames from a bushfire came racing through The Gap on to the Gloucester side of the Buckets yesterday afternoon the…

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Set Forest On Fire

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 12 December 1951 · page 3

Roy Duncan Langham pleaded gulity to a charge of having lit a fire at Barranganyatti without having obtained a permit to do so…

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Water Supply Adds to Fire Hazard

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 December 1951 · page 1

Just how a faulty water supply can add to the damage of fire was emphasised yesterday when the Kempsey Fire Brigade was called to a fire near the Kempsey High School shortly before noon yesterday…

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Heavy Fine Lighting Fire Without Permit

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 December 1951 · page 8

In the Gladstone Petty Sessions last week two defendants appeared on charges of having lit fires without a…

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Bush Fire Danger Period Until March Council Wants Month to Month Proclamation

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 1

A proclamation by the Bush Fires Committee of a bush fire danger period in Gloucester and other areas from December 1,…

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Forest Fire

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 6

A fire broke out in the Inglebar State Forest, approximately 20 miles north-west of Kempsey on Sunday morning,…

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Fire Sprinklers for Factory

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 2

Automatic fire sprinklers are to be installed in the Winghma Slipper Factory for Felt & Textiles of…

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Nabiac Bushfires Quelled by Rain

The Northern Champion · Friday 21 December 1951 · page 4

Rain yesterday helped put out bushfires which had been raging in the Nabiac district for the past week…

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Protect Your Home Against the Bushfire

Macleay Argus · Friday 28 December 1951 · page 2

"Keep doors, and windows closed when bushfires are near your house," a C.S.I.R.O. spokesman says. This simple…

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