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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

123 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 3 of 7

Communists Readiness To Discuss Cease Fire Hailed Red Commanders Will Meet Allies Next Week

North West Champion · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Monday.—The news of Communist readiness to talk about a truce in Korea was welcomed in all parts of the world, many quarters seeing in this hopes of…

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Korean Cease Fire Negotiations Begin To-Morrow the Way for Peace Paved at Preliminary Talks

North West Champion · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

KOREA, Monday.—A relative lull on the Korean battlefront ended yesterday when United Nations forces began a limited offensive on the Eastern front while, at Kaesong, near the 38th…

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Young Couple Die in Cottage Fire CASINO

The North Western Courier · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 1

Don Warner, 19, and his wife Norma Jean Warner, 17, who were married in February, were burned to…

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Cease-fire Talks Continue in Korea Munsan (Korea) Mon

The North Western Courier · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 1

United Nations and Communist truce negotiators, in closer harmony than ever before, worked yesterday at…

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Wheat Board Under Fire

North West Champion · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 5

"If the methods adopted by the wheat Board at Bellata represents its best efforts, they are a…

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Bush Fires and Blizzards Pause Widespread Havoc Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 1

Huge bush fires on the North Coast, gales and blizzards in the southern areas of the State caused wide-spread havoc last night. Many towns, particularly those along the Lachlan…

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Baby Dies in Cottage Fire SYDNEY, Thursday

The North Western Courier · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 1

A two-year-old baby was burned to death in her cot when a fire destroyed a weatherboard cottage in Arthur Street,…

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Truck Damaged by Fire

North West Champion · Monday 13 August 1951 · page 4

A truck-owned by Moree shearing contractor, Mr. Jack Briscie, was damaged by fire during the early hours of Friday morning…

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Heavy Losses in Big Grass Fire

The North Western Courier · Monday 13 August 1951 · page 1

Only the tireless efforts of more than 100 firefighters on the Bellata side alone, including members of…

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Destructive Grass Fire

The North Western Courier · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 1

Approximately 100,000 acres of grass country were burnt out by the recent grass fire in the Edgeroi area, and about 1300…

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Fire At Hotel

North West Champion · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 1

Three rooms were damaged in a fire at Criterion Hotel on Thursday night The fire broke out in the…

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Open Finding Returned on Inquest Into Fire

North West Champion · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 2

Moree Coroner, Mr. H. F. Brown returned an open finding following an inquest into a fire which destroyed a waggonette and contents on vacant land at the rear of the showground on…

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Spectacular City Blaze SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Monday 27 August 1951 · page 1

A man was taken to hospital after jumping from the second floor of a building in Oxford St., Taylor Square, today, after a fire…

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Bush Fire Danger Period

North West Champion · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 1

Boomi Shire Council will make application to have a bush fire danger period proclaimed…

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Chemicals Control Fires

The North Western Courier · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 10

A chemical solution is helping to prevent bush fires by destroying vegetation alongside highways in which fires could start in the…

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Shire Council Has Power to Order Fire Breaks

The North Western Courier · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 1

The captain of every Bush Fire Brigade in the Namoi Shire is to be informed of Council's powers to order provision of fire-breaks, and to order…

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Government's Attitude on Butter Prices Under Fire Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 1

The Opposition Leader, Mr. Vernon Treatt, moved an urgency motion in the Legislative Assembly today censuring the State Government for its handling of the butter crisis…

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Bush Fire Area Proclaimed

The North Western Courier · Monday 17 September 1951 · page 2

Namoi Shire Council at last meeting decided that a Bush Fire Danger Area should be proclaimed in the part of the Shire north of the Namoi…

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Fire Down Below

The North Western Courier · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 5

La Paz (Bolivia) is the highest capital in the world, and, incidentally the only one which has no fire brigade, since no fire can burn for…

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Basing Of Fire Fighting Equipment

North West Champion · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 3

Cr. R. Carrigan suggested to a meeting of the Boomi Shire Council yesterday that fire fighting…

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