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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

642 stories in Murray's papers · page 26 of 33

Allies, Reds decide on cease-fire battle line Korean War May End Within 30 DAYS

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 November 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Fri.: Korean truce negotiators today settled the four-months-old dispute over position of a cease-fire line, but hostilities…

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Huge bush fire losses

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 November 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY. Sun.: Graziers and farmers in the Coonamble district estimate their bush fire losses at nearly £1 million…

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Terrific Fire Devastation in N.t

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 November 1951 · page 14

DARWIN, Sun .: In the worst season of bush fires since the end of the war, millions of acres of pastoral country in the Newcastle…

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Fire fighters labor to save forest

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 November 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Sun.: Forestry officials tonight labored to burn fire-breaks to prevent two fires entering the valuable State pine…

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Five children die in trailer fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 November 1951 · page 1

MARTINSBURG (West Virgina), Sun.: Five children were burned lo death in their tiny trailer home…

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Bush fires again rage in Queensland

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon: Strong winds whipped up bush fires in the Inland today and at Coonardoo Station burned 20,000 acres of…

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Grave Fire Risk

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 1

Six feet high weeds growing on railway land surrounding the goods yards, railway station, and…

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Booligal Homestead Destroyed by Fire

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 2

A fire at Booligal Station late on Friday night, completely destroyed the old homestead…

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Fire Ban to Be Continued

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.: The total prohibition of fires in the open would be continued until midnight on Monday,…

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Final Agreement Reached On Cease-Fire Line

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Mon.: Front-line troops shivered in the bitter cold and deep snow across the entire battleline today as Allied and Communist negotiators reached final agreement on the position of a…

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Fire Ban Expired At Midnight Last Night

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 8

A State ban on the lighting of any outdoor fires in Deniliquin expired at midnight last night…

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Glenmorris Bush Fire Brigade

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 November 1951 · page 2

At a well attended meeting of the Glenmorris Bush Fire Brigade the following officers were elected: President, Mr G. F. Smith;…

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Boy boarders escape from fire

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 November 1951 · page 8

HOBART, Tues: Fire destroyed the sleeping quarters of boarders at the Hutchins public school early this morning…

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Heavy Penalties for “Fire Bugs” in Holbrook Shire

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 November 1951 · page 10

Heavy penalties will be imposed by Holbrook Council on people lighting fires in the open. Signs to this effect will be…

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Rural Bank to get Fire Board’s business

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 November 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: The Board of Fire Commissioners bad agreed to transfer its banking business in all country areas and the…

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Urana Shire Council Bush Fire Danger

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 29 November 1951 · page 2

The President of the Urana Shire Council, Councillor J. M. Smith, makes an appeal to citizens of the Shire for their co-operation in the…

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Bush Fire Relief Minister Promises Aid to Bushfire Victims

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 29 November 1951 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A. said last week that his Department would be represented on the…

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U.S. Eighth Army Ordered To Cease-Fire In Korea

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 November 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Wed.: The U.S. Eighth Army today ordered its men to stop shooting at Communists in Korea, to stay under cover and defend themselves, slates American Associated Press…

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Two Grass Fires

The Pastoral Times · Friday 30 November 1951 · page 1

The local fire brigade was summoned to two fires this week The first was to a grass fire at the railway, where very little…

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Grass Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 November 1951 · page 5

Through inaccurate information being given as to the location of a fire the Corowa Fire Brigade had a wild goose chase…

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