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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

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Main Roads Department Under Fire

North West Champion · Thursday 19 August 1954 · page 11

A meeting at Bellata trenchantly criticised the Main Roads Department for its failure to tar surface the road between Moree and Narrabri. A very large crowd attend-…

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Bush Fire Danger Period Proclaimed For Moree District

North West Champion · Monday 20 September 1954 · page 2

A bush fire danger period has been proclaimed for the Shires of Boomi and Boolooroo and [?] the Municipality of Moree from October 1, 1954 until March 31, 1955…

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New Fence for Fire Station

The North Western Courier · Monday 20 September 1954 · page 7

The Board of Fire Commissioners has advised N.M.C. that they are prepared to pay their half of the cost of…

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Bush Fire Brigade Equipment To Fight Grasshoppers

Manilla Express · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 1

The Mandowa Shire Council will advise the Tammorth Pastures Protection Board that it endorses the use of Bush Fire Brigade equipment in the Shire to fight the grasshopper menace…

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Prohibitions on The Lighting Of Fires

The North Western Courier · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 9

The method for prohibiting ing the lighting of fires in the open air which will be followed during the coming…

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Fire Plant to Combat 'Hoppers

North West Champion · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 6

Warialda Pastures Protection Board last week asked Boolooroo Shire Council whether it would make fire fighting plant…

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Fire at Station

The North Western Courier · Monday 27 September 1954 · page 8

A fire at the waiting room at the Railway station on Sunday morning caused damage estimated at £25…

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Power Insulators Destroyed By Rifle Fire

North West Champion · Monday 27 September 1954 · page 1

Police will be asked to investigate the destruction by rifle fire of insulators on power lines. A meeting of the North West County Council on Thursday…

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£2000 Fire Damage Slated

The North Western Courier · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 2

The New South Wales Government seemed "case-hardened" in its rejection of pleas by rural producers against its…

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Bush Fire Permits

North West Champion · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 6

Boomi Shire Council will continue with its present system in respect to the issuing of permits to light fires…

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Bush Fire Period

The North Western Courier · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 6

The total prohibition on the lighting of fires in the open was hard on landholders, claimed Ald. K. Bailey at the…

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Fire Destroys House In Rain

The North Western Courier · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 4

Fire completely destroyed a house in Bellata early Saturday morning. It was practically…

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Fire in Frome Street

North West Champion · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 1

Moree Fire Brigade was called out to a blaze in Frome Tuesday night. A tin of Shellite in a shed had…

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Fire Prevention Week

North West Champion · Monday 15 November 1954 · page 2

The Chief Secretary, Mr. G. A. Kelly, M.L.A., today appealed for support from Councils and other rural…

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Fire Prevention Appeal Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 15 November 1954 · page 1

The Governor of N.S.W., Sir John Northcott, today appealed to everyone to take all possible precautions…

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Governor Opens Fire Prevention Week

Manilla Express · Friday 19 November 1954 · page 3

The following speech was delivered by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales, Sir John Northcott, KSMG, KCVO, CB, in a national broadcast on Monday last to open Fire…

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Bushfire Conference

North West Champion · Monday 22 November 1954 · page 6

Boomi Shire Council will call a meeting of all Bushfire Brigade Captains next January…

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Goodiwindi Fire GOONDIWINDI

The North Western Courier · Thursday 25 November 1954 · page 1

An estimated £8000 damage was caused by a fire which gutted the rear of Logan and Co's store and…

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Upper Manilla Bushfire Brigade

Manilla Express · Friday 26 November 1954 · page 1

At a meeting of the Upper Manilla Bushfire Brigade on 161154 it was decided that another levee of 300 per…

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Goondiwindi Fire

North West Champion · Monday 29 November 1954 · page 1

An estimated £8000 damage was caused by a fire which gutted the rear of Logan and Co's store and warehouse last…

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