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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

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The Nortern Star Saturday, July 21, 1951, Major Political Issues Loom In Cease-fire

Northern Star · Saturday 21 July 1951 · page 4

THE LATEST DEADLOCK in the Kaesong talks for the preparation of an agenda for cease-fire planning at the top military and diplomatic levels proves again that it will be necessary to overcome…

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Fire Quelled By Hotel Employees

Northern Star · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 4

Employees used buckets and a long garden hose to put out a fire on the top storey of the…

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Fire Station To Be Erected Next Baths Site

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 1

The New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners will proceed with plans for the erection of a fire station on a piece of land adjacent to the…

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Bushfire Danger Growing Daily

Northern Star · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 4

CORAKI, Monday.—The risk of serious bushfire is growing daily in the forest country west and south of Coraki. In the vast forest area…

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Rapid Spread of Grass Fire

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 4

A grass fire spread rapidly yesterday afternoon in a vacant allotment in the southern end of Keen Street, Lismore…

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Parallel Cease-fire Not Acceptable to South Korea

Northern Star · Monday 30 July 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Sunday (AAP-Reuter).—The South Korean Defence Minister and other officials visited the U.N. advance base last night and conferred with Vice Admiral Joy and the…

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No Progress on Cease-fire

Northern Star · Wednesday 1 August 1951 · page 1

SEOUL, Tuesday (AAP-Reuter).—Korean peace talks were today deadlocked for the fifth consecutive day on the issue of the neutral "buffer" zone across the Korean peninsula…

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£250,000 Damage In Sydney Blaze

Northern Star · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fire caused more than £250,000 damage to a large heavy electrical equipment factory at Alexandria tonight. The factory is owned by the Lincoln Electric…

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Cease-fire Delegates

Northern Star · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 1

Chinese Communist and North Korean delegates posing far Press correspondents when the latter were admitted…

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Admiral Reports on Cease-fire Progress

Northern Star · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 1

General Mathew B. Ridgway (right) discussing the latest position with Vice-Admiral Joy, chief delegate of the United Nations forces at the cease-fire talks at Kaesong. Admiral Joy had flown to Tokio to report to the Supreme Commander…

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Seven Outbreaks Yesterday Warning Sounded on Grass Fire Threat

Northern Star · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 4

Strong, gusty winds yesterday fanned at least seven fires in various parts of the Far North Coast district. Most of them were grass fires and they were an indication of the extremely dry conditions of district pastures at the present time…

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Tweed Like Tinder Box: Warning on Fire Threat

Northern Star · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 4

MURWILLUMBAH, Wednesday.—The whole of the Tweed district is regarded as a tinder box by the president of the Tweed Bushfire Committee, Mr. S. E. Spies…

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Shire Wants Bush Fire Danger Period Proclaimed

Northern Star · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 4

Application to have a bush fire danger period proclaimed in Terania Shire was made yesterday to the Bush Fire Prevention Committee. The shire clerk (Mr. D. R…

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Fire Concern

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 5

On Wednesday a grass fire which raged in Lord Marne paddock caused a lot of concern and many folk, including Kyogle Fire Brigade, were…

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Baby Burned To Death In House Fire

Northern Star · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two years old Cheryl Farrelly was burned to death when fire destroyed a weatherboard cottage…

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Weather Havoc in Four States Snow, Fire, Floods

Northern Star · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Snowstorms and gale-force winds lashed towns in N.S.W., South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania today. In contrast, bush fires raged on the N.S.W…

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Garage Fire

Northern Star · Saturday 11 August 1951 · page 4

Prompt action by Lismore Fire brigade early yesterday morning saved the pro[?]able destruction of a taxi cab and…

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Fire Danger Warning

Northern Star · Saturday 11 August 1951 · page 5

MULLUMBIMBY, Friday.—Following the bush fire at Upper Main Arm this week, the chairman of the Brunswick…

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Serious Fire Risk

Northern Star · Monday 13 August 1951 · page 4

WARNINGS of the possibility of serious fire outbreaks in the Richmond district should not go unheeded. Not for many years has the weather contrived…

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Big Stock Losses in Q'ld Fires

Northern Star · Monday 13 August 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.—The carcases of hundreds of sheep and wild animals are scattered over an estimated 500,000,…

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