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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

642 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 33

£2500 Damage by Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday : Damage estimated at £2500 was caused by a fire which destroyed part of a paper store and a motor…

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Guests Flee From Hotel Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 11

BRISBANE, Sun: Thirty guests fled in their night attire at 3 o’clock this morning before fire destroyed the two-storeyed Royal…

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Fire Brigade Costs

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 5

Cost of running Albury Fire Brigade for the year ended December 31, 1950, was £2636/-12/3, slightly less than revenue…

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Fire Ship Probe Adjourned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wed.: The inquiry into the alleged attempt to depe Fire Ship was today further adjourned to a date to be fixed…

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100 guests shiver while fire guts Hotel Kosciusko

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: More than 100 guests and 92 staff members fled to safety in night attire when fire gutted the wooden two-storey Hotel Kosciusko at dawn today. They stood shivering in drizzling rain as the blaze reduced the tourist resort to smouldering ruins within on hour…

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Estimates Sought for Fire Fighting

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 April 1951 · page 2

At Murray Shire Council’s meeting on Monday a letter was received from the Department of Local Government seeking…

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Hotel Bar at Rand Gutted by Fire

The Observer · Friday 20 April 1951 · page 1

Fire gutted the temporary bar of the Rand hotel shortly after midnight on Saturday, causing damage estimated at £1500. The building a timber and…

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Police fire on 5000 hungry Indians, killing five wounding 32 others

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 April 1951 · page 2

COOCH BEHAR (India), Sun.: Police opened, fire on 5000 rioting hunger marchers here, killing five, including one girl, and injuring 32. The Government…

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Town Clerk Under Fire by Aldermen "Should Tell Department Not Suitable."

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 April 1951 · page 2

CHARGES of failing to carry out instructions of the Council as directed in minutes of a previous meeting were made against the Town Clerk (Mr. A. G. Stewart) at the meeting of the Hay Municipal Council on Friday…

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Fire destroys Japanese town

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 5

TOKIO, Wed. (AAP-Reuter): Fire last night destroyed almost the whole town of Atsumi, a hot-spring resort in northern Japan…

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Nine homeless following fire

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 15

Four adults and fire children were made homeless last evening when the hot in Gordon street, Wodonga, in which they…

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Items of News Aid for Fire Victims Sought

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 April 1951 · page 2

An appeal for goods and money for the destitute Orr family, of Wodonga, was opened last night by the acting president of Wodonga…

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Silence on fire at colliery

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 April 1951 · page 7

LITHGOW, Fri.: Although local fire officials reported a fire at the Newcom Colliery, Kerosene Vale, last night, which caused…

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Chinese fire on ambulance

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 14

TOKIO. Sun.: Chinese troops fired on a British ambulance loading and treating wounded men, a British soldier said today…

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Fire destroys brick, tile works

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 14

SYDNEY, Sun.: Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by fire which completely gutted a Sydney brick and. tile…

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Fire at Royal Hotel

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 8

What could easily have proved a disastrous fire broke out in the buildings at the rear of the Royal Hotel early last…

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£30,000 lolly factory fire

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wed.: Damage estimated at £30,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed most of the production machinery of the…

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Bitumen on Fire

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 May 1951 · page 2

A thick column of black smoke curled high into the air at 10 o’clock yesterday morning when a 44-gallon drum of bitumen…

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Fire Deliberately Caused ?

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 May 1951 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A fire which destroyed part of a Housing Commission home at Norlane, Geelong, causing an estimated £400…

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Syrians Break Cease-fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 May 1951 · page 1

TEL AVIV, Sun.: Border fighting flared up yesterday morning in the hills north-west of the point where the Jordan…

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