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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

234 stories in New England's papers · page 12 of 12

Fire Control

The Uralla Times · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 4

CURRENT moves by some Local Government bodies to put bushfire fighting organisations in…

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Fire Brigade Chief Commended By Aldermen

The Inverell Times · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 9

Reference was made at last meeting of the Inverell Municipal Council to the impending departure from…

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Fire Threatened Shell Depot

The Inverell Times · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.-- The £2,500,000 Shell Oil Company depot at Clyde was threatened with destruction when a…

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Warning of Fire Danger

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 4

Warning of a greater danger of a bushfires in the the New Year was given at the annual local bushfire brigade's annual conference in Armidale on Friday afternoon…

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Four Dead in Hongkong Fire

The Inverell Times · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 1

HONG KONG. Monday.-- Four Chinese are believed to have been killed early this morning when a sudden fire roared…

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Bushfire Chief Says Efficiency Maintained

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 6

Since the organisation of fourteen brigades in the area, interest and! efficiency have been maintained, said Cr. B. Browning, Captain of the Dumaresq Shire Bushfire Brigades in his annual report…

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The Fire Brigade Proves Worth

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 1

Warialda's newly set-up fire brigade went into action for the first time, when last Friday night, at about 8 o'clock, a call was received to attend a fire which had got out of control at Stacey's sawmill…

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Coroner Finds Woman Was Burnt by Fire

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 6

In the Glen Innes Coroner's Court last week Deputy Coroner (Mr. A. R. M[?]chell) found that Mrs. Anne Katherine Webber, of Lamb's Valley, had died on September 25 through being…

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Fire at Inyerell

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 12

INVERELL:. While awaiting the arrival of a passenger bus from Armidale at about 10.30 on Wednesday night Mr…

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Fire Damage £200,000

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police are pouring water into the ruins of the Variety Theatre, City, this morning after night-long…

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£25,000 Fire at Inverell

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 1

INVERELL: Damage estimated at £25,000 resulted from a fire which occurred in the…

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Two Calls For Fire Brigade

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 6

Armidale Fire Brigade was called out this morning to extinguish a grass fire in Jessie Street. The area was…

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Fire Destroys Guyra Laundry; Two Suffer Burns

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 6

At 9.45 last night a fire broke out in the laundry of thehomeof Mr. John Devlin, Sandon Street, South Guyra…

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Splendid Save in an Inverell Store Fire

The Inverell Times · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 4

Timely observation by on Inverell citizen of o bright and rapidly growing glare in the rear portion of A. M. Consdell's department store in Otho Street on Wednesday night and quick response by the Fire Brigade…

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