Traffic Menaced By Rubbish Tip Fire
A rubbish tip fire last night menaced traffic in Tweed Street, North Lismore…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
335 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 13 of 17
Five Migrant Children Die in Fire at Camp
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Five young New Australians, aged from 7 months to 7 years, perished in a fire which gutted several huts at the Somers migrant camp hospital early today…
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KYOGLE, Wednesday.—Quick action by a Kyogle man, Mr. Bruce Heffernan, stopped the spread of a fire…
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"Here is your opportunity to discuss any grievances you may have had last year", said Kyogle Shire President, Cr. E. J. Hardy, this week when commenting on…
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Lismore firemen last night extinguished a fire in the basement of the Woodlark Street premises…
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Quick thinking and prompt action by well known Kyogle man, Bruce Heffernan, stopped a fire from spreading into a garage and adjoining buildings late on…
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GRAFTON, Sunday.—Kerosene was found splashed about a room after two fires had broken out in different…
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KYOGLE, Monday.—There will be joint action by Tomki and Kyogle Shire Councils in the formation of a boundary bushfire brigade at Dyraaba, Hogarth Range, Piora and Mummulgum…
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KYOGLE, Tuesday. — A plea for real understanding in the matter of bushfire prevention and the…
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THE visit to the Kyogle district this week by the chairman of the Bushfire Advisory Committee, Mr. H. E. Messer, should prove beneficial in that it enabled district farmers to put their…
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A plea for the greatest possible co-operation between landholders, forestry officials, shire councils and police in administering the regulations of the Bush Fires Act was made by Mr. H. O. Messer, chairman of the N.S.W. Bush Fires…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—With W. Williamson back on him, crack Victorian colt, Pure Fire, is expected to win the Rosehill Guineas on Saturday…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Damage estimated at £50,000 was caused tonight when a fire swept through Bilson's…
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CASINO, Friday.—Tomki Shire Engineer, Mr. E. J. Smith, has been recommended for appointment as bushfire control officer for Tomki Shire…
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BYRON BAY, Sunday.—a fire driven by a northeasterly gale tonight threatened the large Zircon…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fire destroyed the square tower of the Royal Sydney Golf Club last night…
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The bushfire danger on the North Coast was very high, district Forester, Mr. L. G. Mclver, said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Northern Star Tuesday, September 23,1952. Apathy On Bushfires Can be Disastrous
THE WARNING YESTERDAY by the Casino district forester, Mr. L. G. Mclver, of the increasing fire danger, was timely—perhaps not for the moment but possibly for the near future…
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KATOOMBA, Sunday.—Fire-fighters were busy on the Blue Mountains today dealing with outbreaks in…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A middle-aged woman was burned to death, two men almost suffocated, and…
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