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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

674 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 34

Fire At Mayfield Chemical Works

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 4

Damage estimated at several hundred pounds was caused last night at Newcastle Chemical Co…

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Son Saves Woman From Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A man carried his mother, with her clothes alight, to safety from a blazing kitchen in a…

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£150,000 Fire In Sugar Mill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 1

CAIRNS, Tuesday. — Damage estimated at £150,000 was caused by a fire to-night at the Colonial Sugar Refining…

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Olympics Selection Under Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 10

Speakers at the annual meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Amateur Athletic Association last night were critical…

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Two Die in Big Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 1

HONGKONG, April 30. A.A.P.-Reuter. — Nearly 2000 huts were destroyed in a fire that ravaged a squatters'…

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Mill Escapes In £250,000 Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday. — Damage to the C.S.R. sugar mill at Hambledon, near Cairns, by fire last night is…

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Workers Flee Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.). — At least 26 clothing workers were injured today while fleeing…

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Fire On Ship

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 2

BRISBANE.—Fire burnt out the 22-ton trading vessel Ronson at Bowen last night. The ship's engineer,…

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Family Loses All In Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday. — A family lost all its possessions when fire raged through two houses in Raper-street,…

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Home Destroyed by Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1952 · page 2

A house with its contents in Pumbi-road, Wamberal, occupied by Mrs. Margaret Lois Clarke, was destroyed by fire…

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Complaint On Fire Hydrants

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 May 1952 · page 4

Kearsley Shire Council will ask the Hunter District Water Board to place signs on fences or buildings…

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Migration Screening Under Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Screening of migrants for Australia must be tightened-up, the N.S.W. Attorney-General…

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Court Told Of— £200,000 Loss In Bushfires

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 12

WAGGA: Six Holbrook graziers told a Wagga bushfire inquiry today that their losses in the January bushfires this year totalled more ban £200,000…

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Big Fire Loss by Graziers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 7

WAGGA, Thursday. — Six Holbrook graziers told a Wagga bushfire inquiry today that they had suffered losses totalling about £200,000 in January bushfires…

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Graziers' Losses in Bushfire

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 3

WAGGA: Three more Holbrook graziers told a Wagga bushfire inquiry today…

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Liquid Fire Likely For Ten Thousand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1952 · page 12

SYDNEY, Friday.—Liquid Fire is favourite for the Flying Handicap at Canterbury to-morrow. It will depend on his showing whether he will be set for the Doomber Ten Thousand…

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Fire At Cottage; Arson Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 May 1952 · page 2

A man was charged with arson after a house at Leadly and Teralba Roads, West Wallsend, was damaged by…

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German Police Fire On Reds: Youth Killed

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 May 1952 · page 2

ESSEN, Mon. (A.A.P.): A youth teas killed and two injured yesterday when police opened fire to break up a demonstration by 3000 Communists. One policeman also was…

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Small Fire In Mayfield Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1952 · page 2

Three brigades attended a small fire in the rear of the first floor of the Hotel Mayfield last night…

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Fire Districts Extended

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 May 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY.—The Board of Fire Commissioners has extended seven fire districts in the Newcastle…

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