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Fires & bushfires, 1943

357 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 18

Aftermath of a Fire. Landowner Fined

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 12 May 1943 · page 1

At the Berrigan Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr Beavers, P. M. Harry Stewart Ednie Wes charged with leaving a fire he had lighted…

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Is There a Fire Bug at Work ? SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1943 · page 2

Damage by fire to suburban railway stations for the second time in 24 hours has the police to the belief that a lire bug may be responsible. Fires now being…

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Wify Ulster Will Not Join Fire Belfast, May 11

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1943 · page 3

The new Premier of Ulster (Sir Basil Brooke), moving a vote of confidence in the Government, said there were two essentials connected with the…

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Fire in High School Stables

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 2

Cause of fire which broke out in the stables at the Albury High School about 7.45 last evening is not known. Albury [?] hurled to the scene…

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Stables at High School Destroyed by Fire

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 2

Following a fire in the stables in the High School grounds on Wednesday night, the building was destroyed by fire last night and the contents severely…

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Stubble Fires

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 4

At Wagga Wagga Police Court last, week three farmers were proceeded against on charges of lighting fires an stubble paddocks in…

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Soviet Woman Tends Wounded Under Fire

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 1

First aid Instructor Nina Kuranova, tending a badly-wounded man in the thick of the fighting on the Leningard front. She has won the Soviet award "for courage." —Dept. of Information Photo…

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Fire in Big Spanish Naval Base London. May 21

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 May 1943 · page 1

The Berlin radio has announced that a huge fire has been sweeping Ferrol, Spain’s largest naval base, for the past two days and has already destroyed the arsenal and…

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Shale Oil on Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 May 1943 · page 2

It took the fire brigade about 20 minutes on Saturday morning to extinguish the flames which had enveloped drums of shale oil in a depot on…

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Mr. Ward Plays with Fire

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 2

Embittered and prejudiced mind of Mr. Ward, Federal Minister for Labor, which has prompted him on more than one occasion to champion the cause…

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Oil Depot Fire

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 1

The Coroner, Mr J. D. [?] held an inquiry on Tuesday, May 11, into the fire at the Shell Oil [?] at Tocumwal on April 28…

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Second Edition Wednesday, 4 A.M. Dortmund Still Reeling, Huge Fires Burning LONDON, May 25

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 3

According to the Stockholm correspondent of the "Evening Standard,'' trains, motor vehicles, including emergency kitchens and supply convoys,…

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Tocumwal Oil Depot Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 2

At an inquiry into the Shell Oil Co. Depot fire at Tocumwal on April 28, the coroner (Mr. J. D. Davies) after hearing evidence, found that the I…

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Real fire Water ! Auckland (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 2

When a [?] came before Auckland court on a charge of having [?] [?] without a [?] it was [?] that liquor [?] it per[?]…

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Progress of the War Raids on Jap. Bases Thousand Pounders Start Fires

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 June 1943 · page 2

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Tuesday.—Thirteen tons of bombs including thousand pounders, were dropped on Wewak and Boram…

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Fires Destroy German Property in Poland

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 3

The "Osideutscher Beobachter" of May reports that during the month of April 25, fires broke out in Poznan. the reasons [?] which are not given. Two of them…

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Warning Against "Fire Balloons" LONDON. June 3

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 3

Berlin radio, wanting the German; against "fire balloons." declares. "Some of these balloons carry bottles containing incendiary liquid. The bottle lalis and sets…

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Plane Crash at Chiltern Sets House on Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 1

Sister Carter, a returned nurse from the last was, was sleeping in her home at Chiltern at 3 o'clock on Monday morning when a single-seater…

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Amusements "Ball of Fire" at Hoyts To-day

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 4

The hilarious romance of a college professor and a night club queen is the theme of "Ball of Fire." at Hoyts new romantic comedy co-starring Gary…

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£25,000 Fire at Technical College MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1943 · page 6

A spectacular fire which broke out about 4 o'clock this morning destroyed a large portion of the Collingwood Technical School. Damn[?] is estimated at £25.000…

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