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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

460 stories in Murray's papers · page 18 of 23

Fire-bomb Raid

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 November 1950 · page 10

SEOUL, Thurs.: In Freezing temperatures, Allied planes yesterday kept up their relentless campaign of destroying enemy bases near the…

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Fire Destroys Wheat Crop

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 November 1950 · page 2

The first serious fire of the 1950 season is reported from Leeton where 146 acres of ripening wheat were destroyed last Sunday. An adjoining 470…

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Fire at South Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 November 1950 · page 3

The fire alarm was sounded at about 12.30 p.m. yesterday, and the Fire Brigads promptly turned out to a fire at South Corowa, where it was…

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£50,000 Fire Damage

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 November 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A fire tonight gutted the boat building sheds at Lavender Bay, causing damage estimated at £50,000…

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Fire Menaces Wool Worth wm £2 Million

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 November 1950 · page 3

What could easily have been the biggest fire in Albury’s history was averted by the action of two men last evening. fire was in younghusband’s wool stone, Young street, in…

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Fire Warning Issued in Victoria

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 November 1950 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A fire warning was sent out today by the Country Fire Authority, especially to Mallee and. north-western areas…

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Spectacular Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1950 · page 1

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sun.: A spectacular fire, believed to have been started by an intruder, swept through the Onehunga joinery…

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Fire Ts House

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1950 · page 2

A short circuit yesterday caused a fire in a house, at Union Bridge. Only slight damage was caused. Fire was extinguished by…

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Fire Damages Fibrous Works

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1950 · page 5

SIDNEY, Sun.: Fire severely damaged the Apex fibrous works to Wilson street, Newtown, today. Firemen from four stations…

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Grave Fire Danger in Vict

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Victoria is racing its worst fire danger since 1944. “We are sitting on a bomb which might explode any,…

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Government Bodies Start Bush Fires

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 21 November 1950 · page 1

Bush fires had been caused by Government departments and semi-government bodies burning fire breaks without permission from local…

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Detectives Inyestigate Three Fires

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 November 1950 · page 12

SYDNEY, Man.: Arson squad detectives believe it will take more than a week to complete investigations into the fire which…

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GLENELLEN Fire Brigade

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 November 1950 · page 12

A meeting will be held at Glenellen Public School with a view to forming a Bush Fire Brigade on Saturday night at 8 p.m. The…

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Rural Fire Brigade Group to Burn Breaks

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 November 1950 · page 10

WANGARATTA, Wed.: Wangaratta Rural Fire Brigades Group, representing 10 brigades, last night decided to recommend…

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Bush Fire False Alarm

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 November 1950 · page 1

The last rays of the setting sun yesterday caused a fire scare about 15 miles west of Deniliquin…

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Henty Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade Prepares for Fire Eventuality

The Observer · Friday 24 November 1950 · page 1

At the annual meeting of the Henty Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade, held on Tuesday night last week, it was unanimously decided to re-form and re-organise the brigade for the eventuality of bush fires during the coming summer months. All were agreed that every precaution must be…

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Public Meeting at South Corowa Fire Fighting Unit Formed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 November 1950 · page 1

The attendance of about 70 residents of South Corowa at a public meeting held at the school on Wednesday night last was…

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News From Corowa Fire Fighting Unit Formed

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 November 1950 · page 22

At a meeting at South Corowa, when about 70 residents attended, it was decided to form a unit to be known as the South Corowa…

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Macarthur Under Fire by British M’s.p., Newspaper London

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 November 1950 · page 2

General MacArthur’s new Korea offensive is likely to be sharply criticised in the House of Commons next week. Thirty Labor members, mainly on party's Left Wing, hove already demonstrated their anxiety about the Korean situation in a motion…

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Record Floods, Bushfires in Three States Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 November 1950 · page 3

Record bushfires ore sweeping Tasmania, hitory-making floods ore swamping Queensland, — and in flood-battered N.S.W. today: Five feet high sandbag levees built to protect Warren are crumbling…

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