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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

498 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 25

Two homes destroyed by fire

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Two homes and 700 acres of bushland were destroyed today by a fire which swept through…

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1500 fire fighters alerted in Vic

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Fri.: The bush fire danger would extend over the weekend despite predicted cooler weather, the fire…

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Fire danger period in Culcairn Shire

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 7

SYDNEY, Fri. : The Chief Secretary (Mr Kelly) today proclaimed a bush fire danger period in seven shires…

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£5000 Damage in Two Fires

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 11

SYDNEY, Sun.; Two fires in Sydney yesterday caused more than £5000 worth of damage. A fire in a timber yard destroyed…

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Small Grass Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 12

Albury fire brigade attended one fire during the weekend —a small grass and rubbish blaze on vacant land at the corner of Kie-£2 [?]…

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Indigo Valley Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 2

Fire burnt about 100 acres of grass in the Indigo Valley district on Saturday afternoon. In reporting this last night No.24…

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40 Die in Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

PUS AN (Korea), Sun.: Forty Koreans, including 19 children, lost their lives yesterday when fire swept through Pusan’s…

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Thief Blamed for Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 16

MELBOURNE. Sun.: A thief is believed to have started a fire which destroyed the two-storied clubhouse of the Sandringham…

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Fire killed on Victorian roads

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Four people were killed on Victorian roads during the week-end, and a seven-year-old girl died today…

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Five Men Die in Hotel Explosion and Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sun.: Five men ore dead and four men received critical injuries in an explosion and fire which destroyed the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla, at 2.45 p.m. today…

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Fire Destroys Home

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 4

When Mr. and Mrs. Henry James Gallagher returned to their home on Wantabadgery East in the early hours of…

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Fire Danger Period Extended

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 2

Fire danger period in the Holbrook Shire has been extended to April 30. Shire clerk. Mr. Roberts, said this last night…

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Fire Brigade Demonstration to Be Held at Leeton

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 1

Following an unavoidable lapse, of fifteen years, the sixth Volunteer Fire Brigades Demonstration, under the auspices…

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Police fix hotel fire death-roll at five

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Mon.: Police are satisfied that no more bodies are buried under the smouldering ruins of the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla. Five men were burned to death yesterday…

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Move to upset £45,000 fire damages verdict

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: Judgment for £45,000 bush damages against the Railways Commissioner was against the evidence, Mr. N. A. Jenkyn, Q.C., submitted in the Full Supreme Court today…

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Pictures show how fire ravaged part of Blacklock’s premises

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 8

Pictures of the spectacular fire which yesterday burnt out Blacklock’s trimming and repair shop,…

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Big Spectacular Fire at Albury Damage is estimated at £10,000

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 1

Albury’s most spectacular fire in years yesterday afternoon caused damage estimated at £10,000 when it destroyed the paint and trimming shops of Blacklock’s Pty. Ltd., Kiewa street, badly damaged the panel beating shop and the…

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Fire Havoc at Blacklocks

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 3

Scene of Monday’s fire at Blacklock’s, when damage estimated at about £10.000 was caised. At the left is wall…

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Fire Brigade Demonstration at Leeton

The Observer · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 1

Following an unavoidable lapse of 15 years, the sixth Volunteer fire Brigades' Demonstration, under the auspices…

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Valuable Horses Die in Fire

The Observer · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 5

Returning to Holbrook from the Matong gymkhana on Saturday night, March 27, Mr. P. Carroll's motor truck and horse…

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