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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

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Terrific Toll of Bush Fires in Holbrook, Culcairn, Lockhart Shires Grim Story Told in Official Figures

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 March 1952 · page 3

Over 500,000 acres of pasture were burned out, and 159,000 head of stock lost in recent bush fires in the border districts of NSW adjacent to Albury. In the Culcairn, Lockhart and Holbrook…

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Brigade Fights Three Fires

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 March 1952 · page 8

Three fires yesterday kept the Albury Fire Brigade busy, but no serious damage was done. Quick action by firemen saved…

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Fire destroys 25 room home

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 March 1952 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A 100-year-old 25-room former mansion at Mt. Evelyn, housing 20 Dutch and Polish Migrants as well as…

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Postal workers praised for their work during recent bush fires

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 4

An echo of the tragic bush fires which swept many parts of border districts during early February was heard yesterday when compliments to telephone and mail staffs of the…

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Lightning Starts Three Fires

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 2

Lightning yesterday started three fires near Tallangatta. A grass fire at Jervis Creek, six miles from Tallangatta, burnt 30 acres of…

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Fires devastate State forests

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 7

SYDNEY. Sun: Bush fires have put back the State’s timber industry 15 years, the Minister for Conservation (Mr Weir) said…

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Fire on Mt Drum Top

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 2

Thirty men battled through Saturday night and yesterday to fight a fire on Mt Drum Top near Myrrhee. 25 miles from…

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Left Sports to Fight Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 9

Within two minutes of an appeal over the public address system for help, dozens of cars, utilities, and trucks streamed out of the Mudgegonga sports arena on Saturday to fight a fire which had broken out on…

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Commercial Club Aids Fire Victims

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 2

Albury Commercial Club has raised a total, of £166/4/11 for the bush fire relief appeal. The bowls and tennis sections ran an…

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Fires at exhibition “deliberately” lit

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Mon: Two Ares which broke out today at the Royal Adelaide Exhibition at Wayville are believed to have…

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Fire Fighters Demonstrate

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 9

Leneva and Baranduda fire fighters figured prominently in the rural fire brigades’ demonstration at Baarmutha Park,…

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Fire claims against Railways

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon.: Some land-owners have lodged claims against the Railways Department for damage to property caused…

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Items of News Grass Fire Near Cemetery

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 2

Albury Fire Brigade was called out to a grass fire near the cemetery about 7 o’clock last evening. The blaze was extinguished with…

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Aid for Fire Victims

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 2

Albury Tennis Club will hold a street stall at Dean Square on Friday to aid the bush fire appeal. Contributions of cake,…

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Fencing Materials for Fire Victims

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 7

Fencing materials and 100,000 steel fencing posts will be made available to bush fire victims by the Defence Department, the…

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Bush Fire Relief Fund

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 March 1952 · page 2

The Murray Valley bush fire relief appeal has bogged down in a morass. The appeal was opened almost five weeks ago as bushfires raged through the district leaving a wake of broken fives and burned out properties…

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Another concession for bush fire sufferers

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 March 1952 · page 5

CANBERRA, Wed.: Federal Cabinet has decided to modify taxation for bush fire sufferers who have lost insured livestock. This is the third concession to men on the…

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Backyard Fire

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 March 1952 · page 2

Albury Fire Brigade yesterday morning attended a “backyard” fire at a house in Kiewa street. A woman burning off rubbish…

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Items of News Rubbish Fire

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 March 1952 · page 2

Albury firemen used knapsack sprayers of extinguish a small fire which broke out in rubbish in a lane near Englehardt st…

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Bush Fire Brigade Efforts Appreciated

The Pastoral Times · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 5

Mr H. Rich, of Werai, president of Deniliquin Bush Fire Brigade, who also in vice-captain of that organisation has received…

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