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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

584 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 30

Fire At Bowral

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 3

BOWRAL. — Fire early yesterday morning practically destroyed an historic Bowral home and a…

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Girl Dies In P.O. Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A girl was burnt to death at Bibbenluke, eight miles from Bombala to-night…

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Indo-China Cease Fire Line Plan

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 2

GENEVA, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Rival army officers began talks here yesterday to fix a ceasefire line in the Indo-China. war. At the same time political delegates haggled in…

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Communists Fire On Belgian Plane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 1

GRAZ (Austria), June 3. A.A.P.—A Communist M.I.G. fighter fired on a Belgian Sabena Airline DC3 over Austria…

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Factory Fire Loss £70,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Fire destroyed a storage shed of the Australian Glass Manufacturers' factory at…

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Fire Misses Atom Town

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK, June 6. A.A.P.—Hundreds of fire fighters battled early to day to control a forest fire which at…

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Liquid Fire In Bid For Hat Trick

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY. — Liquid Fire will attempt the "hattrick" at Randwick on Saturday in the June Stakes…

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A-Bomb Centre Menaced By Raging Forest Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 8

LOS ALAMOS (New Mexico) Sun. (A.A.P.).—Soldiers and Indians, aided by a shift in the wind, threw a fire line around a roaring forest fire early today and stopped it four miles from the atomic…

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£250,000 Damage In Sydney Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: The biggest fire in Sydney for nine months caused £250,000 damage to premises of seven firms in Oxford-st. and Wymess Lane, early to-day…

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Railway Fires

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 15

SYDNEY.—State Cabinet yesterday approved amendments to the Government Railways Act to limit the…

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£250,000 Fire in Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire caused damage estimated at £250,000 to the premises of seven firms in Oxford-street and Wemyss Lane, Sydney, early to-day…

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Bushfire Claims Limited

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The State Government proposes to place a limit of £2000 on claims against the Railway…

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English Managers Under Fire Over Coach

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 32

LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.): English Rugby League managers, Hector Rawson and Tom Hesketh, have come under fierce attacks from many home quarters…

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Fire From Gods In N.Z.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 5

Once, very long time ago, the first Maori explorer arrived in his canoe at New Zealand. He landed on the west…

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Lambton Blaze

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 6

Lambton and New Lambton brigades turned out to a blaze at a house in Durham Rd., Lambton…

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Two Burnt In Bed Fires

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Joseph Anderson, of Albion-street, Surry Hills, was seriously burnt in bed at his home to-day…

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Two Scrub Fires In Suburbs

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 2

Two minor outbreaks of fire occurred in the Newcastle district early this afternoon…

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Fire In Bed

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: Joseph Anderson, 63, was badly burnt on the arms and body when his bed caught fire…

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Early Morning Fire Razes House

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 2

A cottage and its contents in Norfolk-street, Cardiff, owned by R. Russ, were totally destroyed by fire early on…

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Boy Starts Fire; 7 Die

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 3

CHICAGO, June 13. A.A.P.—A whisky-drinking, cigarette-smoking 11-year-old boy told the police he had started a tenement fire which killed seven…

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