Early Morning Fire at an Albury Cafe
Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 3
FIRE which broke out early yesterday morning caused extensive damage to the kitchen of Hume Weir Cafe, Dean st., Albury (shown above), and two upstairs bedrooms of Hume House. Albury Fire Brigade was on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stubble Fire Was “Difficult”
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 February 1950 · page 2
When a spark from the exhaust of a truck set alight to wheat stubble on the properly of Mr. Steve Purtell, of Holbrook,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Fire on Rioting Mob
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 February 1950 · page 3
CALCUTTA, Fri.: Police today opened fire on rioting crowds armed with sticks and brickbats when stabbing, looting and arson broke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Service Station
Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 12
MELBOURNE, Sat: Equipment was burned, cars damaged by heat and water and fumes almost overcame five firemen when fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Items of News Albury Grass Fire
Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2
Fire destroyed an acre of grass and scrub land on Nailcan Hill yesterday afternoon. Cause of the fire is unknown. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Alarm
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 3
Yesterday at about 12.30 p.m. the fire siren sounded an alarm and there was prompt turn-out of the brigade to premises in Denilliquin road owned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Former Albury Fire Chief Death of Mr. J. S. Grinton
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 7
An old pioneer of Albury and district, Mr James Grinton, died in the Mansfield District Hospital on Saturday, February 11, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sedan Car Destroyed in Fire at Wangaratta
Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 5
WANGARATTA, Thurs.: Fire early this morning destroyed a sedan car, a bicycle, a quantity carpenter’s tools and badly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Annual Fire Brigade Dernonstrations Depend on Memorial Park Facilities
The Pastoral Times · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 4
Desiring to secure a permanent water extension to Memorial Park Oval and so provide facilities for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecked in Early Morning Fire
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 1
This sedan car was wrecked on Thursday morning when fire broke out in the garage of Mr. W. Thompson, Rowan st., Wangaratta. The fire its believed to have been caused by an electrical short circuit…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Railway Station
Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 3
SYDNEY, Sun : Fire swept through the railway station at Gunnedah, completely destroying the roof and causing damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£10,000 Fire in N.z
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 5
AUCKLAND (NZ), Mon.: One employe was taken to hospital and two firemen were injured when fire this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Marvellous” Escapes in Hotel Fire
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 1
GLENFALLS (New York), Wed.: The five-story Towers Hotel here was destroyed by fire just before dawn today and police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£480 For Fire Victims’ Appeal
Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 11
More than £480 was raised by anneals on behalf of two families in South Albury who lost their homes and belongings in recent…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bush Fires
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 4
Nine of the sixteen fire brigades within Carrathool Shire sent delegates to a recent conference with Shire representatives on matters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Items of News Fire at Corowa
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 2
A fire started in a heap of rubbish and soon set long grass alight at the home of Mrs. J. A. Nixon, Deniliquin Road, Corowa, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Station Homestead Partly Destroyed Blaze at Goolgumbla
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 3
A disastrous fire occurred at Goolgumbla Station, 40 miles north west of Jerilderie, on Monday night last, when a wing of the homestead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£100,000 Fire Guts Factory
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 2
SYDNEY, Wed. Fire completely gutted a factory in Bourke rd., Waterloo, tonight causing more than £100,000 damage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Items of News Investigating Fire
Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 2
Detective Smith and Constable Robinson, Albury, are investigating the cause of a fire which destroyed a three-roomed house…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car on Fire
Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 2
Slight damage was caused to a coupe car owned by Mr K F. Wilson, Townsend st., when the engine caught alight in David st on…
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