Schooner Fire
YARMOUTH (Nova Scotia), Wednesday (AAP). — The historic 67-year-old schooner, City of New York, was swept…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
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Planes to Detect Bushfires
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The newly formed N.S.W. Coastguard Corps will, on Saturday, begin operations to…
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CASINO, Friday.—A fire last night damaged a refrigerator in J. Cole's garage, Walker Street, Casino…
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BYRON BAY, Friday.—An aborigines' camp, three houses and a poultry farm were threatened by a heath fire near Barton's Crossing, at the intersection of Bangalow and Broken…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Friday. —Tweed Shire Council announced today that the bushfire danger period in the…
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Lismore Fire Brigade was called to a grass fire on the new Ballina cutting at midday on Saturday. The fire was…
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BALLINA, Monday. — A grass fire which broke out today and threatened the destruction of tents of…
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The Casino district forester, Mr. L. G. McIver, yesterday reported small outbreaks of bushfires in the…
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CASINO, Tuesday.—Casino foresters will be in a sounder position to combat fires in State Forests this summer because of additional equipment supplied to them by the Forestry…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Liquid Fire impressively won a barrier trial at Canterbury today. The horse ran the…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Hundreds of cattle were driven to safety today when a derailed stock train caught…
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CASINO, Wednesday.—The bushfire danger period in Tomki Shire Council has been extended to January 31, it was…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Monday.—A fire which was still blazing tonight. completely destroyed a storage tent in…
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Lismore Fire Brigade put out two grass fires on vacant allotments yesterday before any damage was caused…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Three shops were gutted and another badly damaged by a fire caused £20,000…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The first official shot in the State general election campaign will be fired on Tuesday night, when the Country Party leader, Mr. Bruxner, delivers his policy speech…
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CASINO, Tuesday.—Fire yesterday afternoon destroyed a house near Clearfield, halfway between Grafton…
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Mario Lorenson, of Rock Valley, an Italian migrant, was fined £10 by Mr. K. Anderson, S.M., in Lismore Court…
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POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, Wednesday (AAP).—A three-year-old boy died with his two-year-old…
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SYDNEY, Thursday- Prominent Queensland jockey, J. Standfield, will ride Liquid Fire in Saturday's…
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