New Australian Family Loses All in Fire at Albury
Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 8
A New Australian family lost all their belongings and over £30 in cash when their dwelling was razed by fire yesterday morning. It was part of a canvas settlement opposite Albury…
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Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 November 1950 · page 3
NEW YORK, Sun. : Robert Dale Segee, a quiet youth who claims he is haunted by Ate figure of a “flaming Red Indian,”…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£20,000 Tannery Fire
Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 November 1950 · page 6
SYDNEY, Sunday : Fire gutted a tannery at Botany tonight and caused damage estimated at £20,000…
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Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 November 1950 · page 2
LONDON, Sun.: Several hundred army tanks and trucks were destroyed last night when fire gutted a building at the army…
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Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 November 1950 · page 10
At the annual meeting of Walla Sub Bush Fire Brigade it was decided to purchase a fire fighting unit, the government and insurance…
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The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 November 1950 · page 2
A meeting was held on Friday evening, 27th October, 1950, at the Area Hotel, for the purpose of forming a Bush Fire Brigade in the…
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The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 November 1950 · page 3
The Hay Fire Brigade was called yesterday to ah outbreak at the rear of the Orson Street residence of Mrs. Crawford. Brigade officers report that…
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Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 November 1950 · page 4
Rev. John Armour, president of the United Charities, desires to thank all who willingly [?] forward to help the New Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Garage
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 November 1950 · page 2
No damage was caused yesterday morning when oil and grease in a pit at the rear of Albury Motor’s workshop, Olive st., caught…
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Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 November 1950 · page 6
Delegates from Wooragee Beechworth, Gapsted and Bowmans-Murmungee brigades attended the annual meeting of the…
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The Observer · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 3
The annual meeting of the Yerong Creek Bush Fire Brigade was held on Friday night, when Mr. J. C. Shaw presided and members present were:…
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The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 2
In his report to the November meeting of the Hay P.P. Board yesterday, the stock inspector, Mr. K. Bray, said that repeated light falls of rain have…
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Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 3
GREYMOUTH (NZ), Thursday: Hundreds of acres of virgin bush is ablaze in the Nelson CreekBell Hill region on the west coast…
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Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 November 1950 · page 11
Victorian Railways Commissioners stated last evening that the rapidly drying grass in portions of the northern districts may…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Three Die in Hotel Fire
Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 November 1950 · page 10
LEDUC (Alberta), Sun.: Three persons were killed and 15 injured when an explosion of a gas heating system yesterday started a…
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The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 14 November 1950 · page 8
An aeroplane, originally purchased at the local air station from Disposals for two small boys to play in was completely…
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Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 November 1950 · page 5
NEW DELHI, Mon.: India is reported to have sent a Note to Peking, Chinese Communist capital, suggesting a cease-fire be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Sleeping Children Die in Fire
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 November 1950 · page 1
GARRETT (Pennsylvania), Mon Six sleeping children died in a fire which swept through a wooden house in this little…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Henty Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade
The Observer · Friday 17 November 1950 · page 1
At the annual meeting of the Henty Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade on Tuesday night, it was decided that the brigade be reformed and reorganised…
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The Observer · Friday 17 November 1950 · page 3
"The growth of grass and herbage in the South-east Riverina has been such that the bush fire hazard is greater his year than perhaps ever before for the past 20 years, and to accentuate the danger there is less fallow than normally and very few efficient firebreaks," Mr. G. C…
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