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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

498 stories in Murray's papers · page 16 of 25

Car Catches Fire

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 16

Albury fire brigade was called out at 9 a.m. yesterday when a car caught fire in Kiewa street, near Wilson street. The car, a pre-war…

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Fire causes £100,000 damage

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wed.: In one` of the most spectacular fires seen in the city in years, two of three floors of Doyle’s Bond…

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Fire destroys guest house al Mt. Macedon

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Mount Macedon’s biggest and most popular guest house, the 40 roomed, old Government cottage,…

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Reflections in an Open Fire

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 4

If you want a prettily packaged tale in the precisely patterned manner of traditional fiction, this vignette is not for you, for it is…

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Indo-china Cease-fire Note of Warning by Mr. Menzies

Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 13

CANBERRA, Thurs.: The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) today welcomed the Indo-China armistice, but warned that the menace of aggressive Communism in South-East Asia had not been…

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New fire-fighting unit for Barnawartha

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 July 1954 · page 16

TOP : Mr. I. Swinburne, M.L.C. (left who officially handed the keys of the new fire-fighting unit to Barnawartha Fire Brigade, with the acting President of Children Shire (Cr. R. D. Oates, centre), and Mr. C. H. Howe district rural fire officer…

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Soviet view on the Indo-China cease-fire

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 July 1954 · page 22

MOSCOW, Fri.: The Indo-China agreement reached at Genera had created favorable conditions for the solution of…

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Talk to Wodonga Rotarions on fire brigades

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 15

In a talk to Wodonga Rotary Club, Mr, C. Howe, regional fire officer of the Country Fire Authority of…

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Father, Five Children Die in Fire

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 7

LONDON, Mon.: A father and five of his seven children perished yesterday in a fire which destroyed their home in…

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Viet. Reds strike below cease-fire line

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 3

SAIGON, Mon. : Communist forces stabbed southward in Vietnam over the weekend, striking far below the dividing line set in the ceasefire. The attack, 180 miles…

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£4000 pleasure cruiser sinks in Murray after fire

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 3

MILDURA, Mon.: A £4000 pleasure cruiser, with eight people aboard, burst into flames on the Murray River at Wentworth today. Two men in a dinghy…

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Railways and Fires

The Pastoral Times · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 7

Livestock, crops and the produce of the country were as much a public asset as State owned enterprises like the New…

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Fire in Garage at the Rook

The Observer · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 1

A fire caused about £200 worth of damage in a garage at The Rock late on Tuesday night. The garage, owned by…

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Three Children Die in Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 August 1954 · page 5

WELLINGTON (NZ), Sun.: Three children lost their lives in a fire which destroyed a four-roomed house at Maroa…

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Craws fight over a burnt-out freighter

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 16

LONDON, Mon.: British and French seaman tonight are vigorously contesting salvage rights of the buckled,…

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Items of News Fire in Chimney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 2

Albury brigade attented a minor chimney fire in Nathan avenue shortly after 10 p.m. yesterday. No damage was caused…

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Fire Aboard Plane

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 20

CALCUTTA, Thurs.: Fire broke out aboard a Qantas Super Constellation aircraft while it was taking to the runway of the…

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Fire Destrots House

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 2

Fire destroyed a four- roomed weatherboard house in the Wangaratta early last night. It was occupied by a New Australian…

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Six Dead in Distillery Fire

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 August 1954 · page 3

PEKIN (Illinois), Fri. ; Firemen stood guard today over the smouldering ruins of a two-day distillery fire that killed six…

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Two Fires Yesterday

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 2

Albury brigade attended two fires yesterday. At 12.5 p.m. a call was received to 439 Guinea street where the wiring on a car had…

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