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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

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A Fire and flood, all at the same time

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A city building narrowly escaped being burnt to the ground tonight, a whole street was flooded and portion of the road surface badly damaged—all as the result of a car being diverted by a policeman…

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Attlee’s Red visit again under fire

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 August 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.: The Moscow-Peking journey of Clement Richard Attlee’s Labor Party group was again under fire today on both sides of the Atlantic—with the New York “World Telegram” claiming that it British…

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Guests Dash From Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 August 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY, Sun.: Fire in a room at Gardener’s Inn, Blackheath. caused 40 guests to race for safety clad only in night attire…

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Fires fascinate me, man allegedly said

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Mon.: “I do not know what made me do it. Fires fascinate me. I could sit and watch a fire all night.”…

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Fire Damages Stratocruiser

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 15

SUVA, Wed.: The United States Air Force Boeing Stratocruiser C97 was damaged by fire at Nandi airport last night…

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Bandits fire at women: Steal jewellery worth £1500

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Three bandits, one of whom was armed, held up Kneale’s jewellery shop in Sydney rood, Brunswick, this morning and escaped with several trays of rings after firing a shot through a door at two…

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Eight die in fires in N.S.W. and New Zealand

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 September 1954 · page 22

Eight people lost their lives in fires yesterday —five in New Zealand and three in N.S.W. Three men trapped in…

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Old Man Perishes in Fire in Room

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 September 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sun.: An elderly pensioner periled in a fire which destroyed portion of a house in North Melbourne last night. He was Archibald McDowell, 83, of Howard street, North Melbourne…

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Dr. Evatt’s leadership may come under fire al party meeting

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 September 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA, Mon.: A meeting of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party next Wednesday might bring to a head the party’s attitude towards leader, Dr. Evatt, following his intervention in the Petrov Royal Commission and case generally…

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“Peeping Toms” fire at nudists

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 September 1954 · page 3

HILLSDALE (Illinois), Tues.: The residents of the Woodlands Acres nudist camp complained to police today that someone shot at…

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Fire Bombs Rained on Reds

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 September 1954 · page 2

HONG KONG, Fri.: Chinese Nationalist planes dropped napalm (fire) bombs in sweeps over Communist coastal positions this…

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Two men burnt to death in house fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 September 1954 · page 20

BRISBANE, Sun.: Two men were burned to death and two firemen were injured in a fire which destroyed a boarding house at Mt. Isa early today…

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£250,000 fire in country town

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 7

INVERELL. Mon.: Fire early today destroyed most of Inverell’s newest and biggest shopping block…

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Girl crushed to death by “bolting” fire engine

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 15

SYDNEY, Tues.: A 12-year-old schoolgirl was killed and a mother and her eight-year-old daughter seriously injured when a careering fire engine crushed them against a house of Auburn today…

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Hopefield Bush Fire Brigade Annual Meeting

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 3

The annual meeting of the members of the Hopefield Bush Fire Brigade was held at Mr. M. Palmers "Bljiji" on Friday…

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Prohibitions on the Lighting of Fires

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 5

The method for prohibiting the lighting of fires in the open air which will be followed, should the need arise during the coming…

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Will Discuss Bush Fires

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 2

Bush fires will be discussed at today’s meeting of Holbrook Shire Council at 10.30 a.m. Finance committee will meet at 10’ a.m…

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Bush fire danger period from Oct. 1

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 11

Hume Shine Council was notified yesterday by the bush fire Committee, NSW Chief Secretary’s Department,…

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Fire at Buraja

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 3

Last Sunday afternoon a stack of wood adjacent to Mr. A. Hicks' house at Buraja, on the Corown-Urana road about 11…

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What Hume Shire Council Did Yesterday Reasons given why appointment of fire brigade captain refused

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 10

Reasons tor the refusal to accept the appointment of Mr. w. K. Lindner as captain of Burrumbuttock Bush Fire Brigade were given in a finance committee report at Hume Shire Council meeting yesterday. At its July meeting…

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