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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

498 stories in Murray's papers · page 13 of 25

89 Bodies Recovered, But 100 May Be Dead Explosions and Fire rip through mighty U. S. ’plane carrier

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 20

NEW YORK, Thurs.: Explosions and fire ripped through the mighty aircraft carrier Benington, 75 miles at sea yesterday, in the U.S. Navy’s second greatest peacetime disater. Fourteen hours after the…

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Fire-bug sentenced to twelve years’ gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.: A 39-year-old man was to-day sentenced to 12 year’ goal on three charges of having set on fire two building and a truck. William Alfred Hunter,…

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£100,000 damage caused by spectacular fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sun.: At least £100,000 damage was caused by a spectacular blaze which, ct one stage, threatened to engulf the massive five-floor Robur Tea building, near the corner of Little Collins street and Swanston…

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Fire Menaces Ammunition Store

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: Four fire brigades tonight fought a fire in a Civil Aviation Department store in which there were several…

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Fire -- and No Alarm

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 3

At about 11 o'clock yesterday (Monday) morning a fire broke out in the kitchen of Mr. George Howard's home in…

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Second mystery fire on ship

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues.: For the second time in a week, a mysterious fire broke out in a hold on the British freighter…

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Attended Fire in Pouring Rain

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 5

Albury Fire Brigade was called to its first fire in weeks white rain poured yesterday afternoon Fire, under the floor at Christian…

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£70,000 bottle factory fire

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A fire caused £70,000 damage when it totally destroyed a storage shed of the Australian Glass…

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Items of news Chimney Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 2

No damage was caused when the loungeroom chimney of the Albury Club, Kiewa street, caught alight at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday. The…

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Fire in Griffith

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 2

A young married couple lost all their possessions in a fire which completely destroyed their home in Griffith recently. They are Mr…

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Fire under control

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 16

LOS ALAMOS (New Mexico) Mon. : Soldiers and Indians, aided by a fortunate shift in the wind threw a lire line around a…

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£250,000 Fire in Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues. : Fire caused damage estimated at £250,000 to premises of seven firms in Oxford street and…

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£2000 limit on fire damage claims on N.S.W. Railways

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 20

SYDNEY, Tues.: The State Government proposes to place a limit of £2000 on claims against the Railways Department for bush fire damage, State Cabinet today approved amendments to the Government Railways Act to limit the department’s liability…

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Police Fire on Men

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Police fired warning shots at several men after a chemist’s shop had been broken into in Main road, St. Albans,…

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Fire on R.a.n Destroyer

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 June 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY. Tues.: Fire broke our [?] on the destroyer Voyager. [?] out at Cockatoo Dock. The fire was confined to cork…

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Border district fire damages award for £45,000 stands

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.: The Full Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal by the N.S.W. Railways Commissioner against £45,000 fire damages…

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Burnt-out Hotel Bar

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 8

Twisted sheets of iron and charred walls were all that remained of the bar of the Burrumbuttock Hotel yesterday morning after fire had swept through the building…

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Gave the alarm in hotel fire

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 2

This is the four-year-old girl who, early yesterday morning, gave the alarm when the Burrumbuttock Hotel was destroyed by fire. She is Catherine Dutton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon L. Dutton, who was sleeping in a room across the…

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Girl’s cries save lives in hotel fire

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 20

Cries of a four-year-old girl saved the lives of her parents and sister when the Farmers’ Inn Hotel at Burrumbuttock was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning…

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Fire in Home

Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 2

Wodonga Rural Fire Bridage was called lo a fire in a home midway between Albury and Wodonga on the “mad mile”…

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